Originally Posted by
bargainguy
Thanks. I never considered buying a used Brommie from the UK and having it shipped to the US because I thought shipping charges would be prohibitive. Then there's the issue of customs charges. I think you get a personal exemption on items up to $800 but not sure.
Customs charges are usually low, but the shipper may add on fees for presenting your item to the customs and these can dwarf the customs charges. One more issue is that theft of Bromptons is rampant in UK and being outside it may be hard to separate out legitimate sales from unloading of stolen property. While most stolen bikes likely go down the Gumtree some presumably leak out to Ebay.