Exactly what I did a couple of weeks ago with the dollar tree ones you mentioned haha.

I guess that's how it is if everyone shipped with those scratches on the adjustment.  Just for reference mine shipped with the headband at the second to last notch at the top and I hadn't moved it at all.  Just kinda bummed that the headphones we paid for came "imperfect".

I received the headphones last night from my purchase from ebay.  Overall I am liking the sound of the headphones especially for its sound stage and in games.  I've started noticing things in Overwatch like wild life sounds and background sounds which were probably there before, but these...

Thank you for your input on the matter and that is very interesting.  That seems to confirm or will confirm that only certain countries in the EU have manually enforced a prepaid import fee along with shipping.  I have a friend from Sweden(25 percent vat) that had tried adding things to the cart...

Yes of course.  I'll let you know as soon as his arrives.  They are scheduled to arrive tomorrow at the latest.  The UPS driver is apparently drunk though as it's been triangulating around his city(pfft I'm assuming to ride up that *handling* cost).  It could have easily have been delivered...

Alrighty, thanks again for all the help.  You've been most informative.  It arrived in the UK yesterday, and at first we saw that the tracking said something about the imports fee; there was a yellow caution alert.  It got cleared and continued towards his house today so we had assumed they were...

Aww man, yeah I guess this will be a shocker for him. Thanks for all the information though.  That's an insane amount of import tax gosh.  Would he be paying this at the front door, or would it be by contacting UPS?

Did you purchase from Ebay or Monoprice?  My friend has also ordered from the UK and he already had to pay so much to get it shipped there.  Is this import an additional cost?  Thanks in advance!

I don't know if they would ship to Italy unfortunately, but these are available on Jet, Newegg, and Rakuten also now.  Jets TRIPLE15 works on them and for the people in the USA that don't get taxed it'll be a pretty good deal.  It's unfortunate that all my friends in the EU get such a large...