thephonographshop.com

[chunnybh]

I'm sure our American friends already know "thephonographshop.com". For everyone else who is not in the USA this site sells and ships internationally.
It's new to me and I am amazed at the variety of items for sale and at very reasonable prices. I needed several different sizes of mica diaphragms and these guys had them all. So easy to order online and from the USA to Australia it was 6 days postage which works out reasonable if you order a few items.
Thank you:
https://thephonographshop.com

[Steve]

Thank you, Chunny, that's useful information.

[Marco Gilardetti]

Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

[poodling around]

Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

(however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness).

What price freedom ...... ?

[Steve]

Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of collectors voted for Brexit; that's those of us either old enough or interested enough in history to recall that Great Britain was at one time perfectly capable of deciding what shape its own bananas should be. The gradual erosion of national sovereignty but more importantly, democracy, at the hands of unelected (and occasionally corrupt) bureaucrats milking the system, must surely be something that the population of any country would have legitimate concerns about. The trouble with the UK is we've become so conditioned to apologising for everything we've done and continue to do, we can't just accept the painful truth that the public had "awoken" to the problems and rebelled against the system that had conspired to prevent them from having a voice for half a century.

Sorry, Marco, you didn't ask for a lecture but if you want a good example of the complete and utter failure of the EU, look no further than the Covid fiasco. If there was ever an opportunity to show the rest of the world that the EU wasn't a toothless tiger, that was it. They failed to co-ordinate a rapid response to the pandemic. The UK sorted its own vaccines out ahead of the rest. If we'd still been bound by EU regulations we'd probably still be queuing for our first jabs.

[poodling around]

Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of collectors voted for Brexit; that's those of us either old enough or interested enough in history to recall that Great Britain was at one time perfectly capable of deciding what shape its own bananas should be. The gradual erosion of national sovereignty but more importantly, democracy, at the hands of unelected (and occasionally corrupt) bureaucrats milking the system, must surely be something that the population of any country would have legitimate concerns about. The trouble with the UK is we've become so conditioned to apologising for everything we've done and continue to do, we can't just accept the painful truth that the public had "awoken" to the problems and rebelled against the system that had conspired to prevent them from having a voice for half a century.

Sorry, Marco, you didn't ask for a lecture but if you want a good example of the complete and utter failure of the EU, look no further than the Covid fiasco. If there was ever an opportunity to show the rest of the world that the EU wasn't a toothless tiger, that was it. They failed to co-ordinate a rapid response to the pandemic. The UK sorted its own vaccines out ahead of the rest. If we'd still been bound by EU regulations we'd probably still be queuing for our first jabs.

Very astute and eloquent - and a jolly good read !

[Marco Gilardetti]

These kind of "lectures" are the most obvious outcome of the brexit propaganda and brainwashing.

First of all you had always been free to sell whichever kind of bananas: blue bananas, straight bananas etc. Only in case your bananas were to be sold on the Common Market, then of course they must have had certain characteristics, because, obviously, who is buying them wants to be sure that it is agreed beforehand what both dealers meant by "bananas": no blue stuff, no straight stuff, and so on. This is a striking example of how propaganda has distorted a truth that is, moreover, very simple.

The selfishness with which you treated the purchase of vaccines is nothing of which you can be proud, indeed you should be ashamed. It is the case to recall that your premier was doing alcoholic parties while half of the world was in lockdown and thousands of people dying; if I were you I'd really drop the SARS-COV2 subject as it is really a topic about which UK didn't shine at all.

[epigramophone]

I agree that the spectacle of the political elite holding drinks parties whilst ordering the general public to cower in their homes is indefensible, but I am proud to have voted to leave the EU. I simply wanted my country back.
A country which cannot make it's own laws, control it's own borders and mint it's own currency is not fit to call itself a nation.

This forum is supposed to be above politics. Your comment about "Brexit foolishness" was provocative and got the response it deserved. Further justification of our democratic decision to leave.

[poodling around]

I agree that the spectacle of the political elite holding drinks parties whilst ordering the general public to cower in their homes is indefensible, but I am proud to have voted to leave the EU. I simply wanted my country back.
A country which cannot make it's own laws, control it's own borders and mint it's own currency is not fit to call itself a nation.

This forum is supposed to be above politics. Your comment about "Brexit foolishness" was provocative and got the response it deserved. Further justification of our democratic decision to leave.

Well, I for one think that you have given a very well considered and definitive response. The ill-considered and provocative comment would have been more appropriate for Twitter and the ilk.

Thank you very much indeed, epigramophone.

[Marco Gilardetti]

I beg your pardon for being offensive; I took for granted that at this point in time anyone realised that international sales of parts (which was the topic of this thread) was totally killed by the brexit, due to double VAT, duties fares and extra postage inspection, which makes every purchase absolutely anti-economical for the rest of the world.