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Guitar shop and online store.
BBZGuitars High Wycombe guitar showroom and online shop sells guitars and accessories from Antoria, Ernie Ball, Gordon Smith, Vintage, St. Blues, Planet Waves, DAddario, First Act, Shure, Sound City, Kustom, Traynor and Italia.
TOURIST TO UK FYI
I was in UK for vacation for a couple of weeks back in 2008. Looked up the yellow pages for guitar shops that can get me a Italia Mondial in a hurry. Steve was the only one that can do it. Moreover He was nice enough to give me a discount on the hard cast and throw in some courtesy cables and picks : )
He also reassured me that I can get the 17.5% tax back at the airport with the receipt (it was a good 70+GBP worth of tax on that guitar).
At the airport, I wasn't able to get anything back. Apparently I lacked some critical documents, and Steve lacked some common knowledge on how tax refund for tourists work in UK.
Exchanged some emails afterwards when I got back to my home country. My impression from Steve in the emails was " I tried but it wasn't any good with the government (fair enough, I thought). The sale is a done deal and the money doesn't go into my pocket, so tough luck. "
No comment on business ethics, morals or anything of the sort. By all mean, Steve was as surprise as I was that I can't get the tax money back. With that said, I was the visitor, foreign to UK, and he was the shop owner that operated out of that country. I think there was a lack negligence and responsibility on his part.
Hope he improved his knowledge of the UK tax procedures since then
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