Hirotek has been selling Ichiros of different varieties for several years on eBay along with grenades and bobs. I suspect that he is reproducing those resin pieces but that is just an unfounded suspicion.
This pair is actually at the least expensive that I have seen him offer this colorway for. It is a great colorway for sure but before I'd spend $1200 I'd probably do a clone.
Thanks, i wasn't aware of the history of the seller but they did look "serious" IYGWIM. The difficulty seems to be in obtaining the polished carbon frame with hammerstem arms. If i could get a set of those then i wouldn't care about the lenses or associated docs/box.
Really? At the current exchange ratio of about 60% ($1 usd = £.60) that seems to work better for you in the UK than we here in the US. So today $500 USD = £297. Are taxes that high? God Bless the USA!
Yeah the US prices do look cheap to us, that's why i have so many of the US auctions "watched" on ebay
The problem is the unknown and unpredictable shipping costs, even though i don't believe there should be any because they're 2nd hand. They tend to impound randomly and then check and put on a tax you have to pay, unless all the customs documents are bang-on in which case they'll take face-value. You get quite a few people marking imports are "Gift" with $10 value
The difficulty is that because of the shipping costs and customs hassle (which in reality shouldn't be that bad for the seller) quite a few US folk don't want the hassle shipping to the UK. The same is true for European sellers, it can be a hassle to send to the US.