I have bought from ANS gear about 6-7 times, usually packages are $500 and up. i have also bought a marker from them and that packaged was about $1200 and had it shipped over. I have always shipped fedex international priority normally costing around £50-60. I have never been stung with heafty customs charges i think i paid £20 customs if that when shipping the marker in and that is the most i have ever paid. what happens is fedex gets charged by customs for importing your gear ( i think this is so they can get the package fast tracked through customs) and then about a week later you get a bill through the post from fedex asking you to pay them back the customs charge which you can do with a bank transfer