To any of you US residents who have ordered and received Bob Jackson frames: Did you have to pay an additional customs/tax fee upon or after receiving your frame? Fed Ex just sent me an invoice for another $30 to pay for customs fees they took care of once my Vigorelli frame entered the states, but I just ASSumed this was included in the extremely high shipping fee of $180 from Bob Jackson. I've ordered other online retail items (specifically expensive bike components) from England before and can't recall ever paying additional customs fee on top of what I was initially charged for. Is this normal?

mine was shipped about a year ago. royal air mail parcel force handed it to the usps and they delivered it to me. i paid no extra taxes or customs unless BJ included it in my second billing...i didn't get it fedex.

show us some damn pics already.
what size is it?
do you know what the head and seat tube angles are?

you just got hit with FedEx's brokerage fees. It's not a tax, or duty or import fee. FedEx charges you some random, inflated amount for their broker to clear your package through customs. It's usually % of the declared value of the package.
UPS is just as bad.

For cross-border shopping (mainly US->Canada) i always chose the "regular mail" (USPS/Canada Post) option. The brokerage fees are much cheaper, and sometimes nonexsistent.