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Any idea where to order the SR60i in the UK? On amazon the minimum price is £82.
In the US i am told that they are sold for 69$ so i guess that's about £52.
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Unfortunately, unless you go with an Alessandro, you will have to pay a substantially higher price for Grado headphones in the UK and most other countries outside the US. This is partly due to the higher tariffs on non-essential imports and partly due to the costs to ship the products from the US to the "official" foreign distributors. And there is no legitimately getting around those if you're stuck buying them in another country.
And no, in the US the new version of the SR-60i no longer costs $69; it now costs $79. At current exchange rates, that would be about £50. So there is at least £32 worth of import, transit and tariff costs involved here. So, £82 would now be more than $131 USD! A huge $52+ USD worth of transit and import costs and tariffs involved. So, unless you really want that Grado sound, other brands of headphones are much better values over there.
Then there's the warranty issue: IIRC Grado's warranty is only valid for the ORIGINAL purchaser of their products. And if a Grado product is sold illegitimately, such as a foreign purchaser ordering the products directly from an authorised US reseller for shipment outside the US, Grado will NOT honor the warranty on such products (and may revoke that reseller's authorisation to sell Grado products in the future). The same holds true for a Grado product which is sold first to someone in the US who then resells it to someone abroad--in this case, only the original US purchaser may make a warranty claim on the affected product (but that would not do much if any good if the product breaks while in the foreign owner's possession). In non-warranty cases, repair charges may approach or exceed the original purchase price of such an affected product had such a product been purchased legitimately to begin with (and some companies may refuse to even touch the affected product at all but instead send it back to you unrepaired). This is
exactly why all authorised Grado resellers in the US will only ship within the Continental US, and will not ship any of them abroad. On the other hand, if a Grado product is purchased in a foreign country through a legitimate channel, the foreign country's official distributor of the product is responsible for the warranty--that official importer will send the product back to Grado in Brooklyn, NY if any major repair is required.