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^That's awesome! Glad it's working out for ya. I love the shop you got it from. I've picked a few things up from them over the years and they're super nice folks.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 6:54 pm Just got hit with a $100 bill for the damn Sony C-38B I bought from Japan. Here we go.

How did this go? Which shipping option did you use? Did you receive the mic before the bill or did it show up after? Tariff shit seems to only be getting worse and I've still got some stuff that hasn't shipped yet.

thecr4ne wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 10:57 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 6:54 pm Just got hit with a $100 bill for the damn Sony C-38B I bought from Japan. Here we go.

How did this go? Which shipping option did you use? Did you receive the mic before the bill or did it show up after? Tariff shit seems to only be getting worse and I've still got some stuff that hasn't shipped yet.

I just bought a decent looking one from an ebay store in japan and they shipped fedex. I had assumed I didn’t have to worry about it once I got the mic without a customs hold, but I received a bill from Fedex a couple weeks later. It was a paper letter with a bill from Fedex to pay online and had all the correct info. It was legit.

It was something like ~ $84 for the tariff (mic was $848) and then a $16 processing fee. Plus I was already paying Texas sales tax on it. All in over $1k but still better than Reverb prices, though I had already picked a relatively expensive one by Japan standards, I wasn’t planning to spend that much. The $700-ish ones looked like total shit and ones less than that were inoperable, so I thought ai was going for a happy medium. If I bought another one I would just plan on getting dead mint if I was already going to spend that much on fees.

I’m sure there’s stuff where bills may never come or come late, but mine wasn’t too long after I received the mic.

Martin Atkins is asking absolute fuckery prices for "Albini's" Otari 5050MK2 Stereo Reel to Reel. Fucking gross. I used to have one of these. Decent Stereo machine. 27 Grand is obnoxious price for it.

yikes

Kniferide wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 12:05 pm Martin Atkins is asking absolute fuckery prices for "Albini's" Otari 5050MK2 Stereo Reel to Reel. Fucking gross. I used to have one of these. Decent Stereo machine. 27 Grand is obnoxious price for it.

I got one, it's a little dusty, we could say it was steve's.

PAISLEY Mesa/Boogie 1x15 bass cab for $100 at GC in MI. Possible TL606? PAISLEY

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Misce ... 1223182.gc

thecr4ne wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:15 pm PAISLEY Mesa/Boogie 1x15 bass cab for $100 at GC in MI. Possible TL606? PAISLEY

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Misce ... 1223182.gc

If it was purple I'd say maybe it belonged to the Snakesssprince

That GC is about 30 minutes from me. Might go look at this, but I kinda doubt it's an actual Mesa cab.

Nate Dort wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:46 pm That GC is about 30 minutes from me. Might go look at this, but I kinda doubt it's an actual Mesa cab.

Yeah that looks way too good to be a Mesa cab,