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There was always Jonathan aka, Bandana Almanac but from memory, he charged 15% which is only 5% less than VAT.

Based on personal experience from 15yrs ago SuToCorp are probably the last.. but they're only geared towards shop buying.. realtime auction bidding is impossible with the service they provide.

You could always ask? .. but see below Who pays for import tax? Edited 3 years ago As the importer, you are fully responsible for covering any customs tax or duty incurred by your shipment. The international shipping fee you pay does NOT include customs duties or import taxes. Before ordering anything online from a different country, we recommend researching your country's import and customs laws. Doing so will prevent any surprises further down the road! If you're confused about any law, you can always contact your country's nearest customs office for more information. To customers in the European Union: Our business is based in Japan with a global client base and is not VAT registered. We can't pay or provide VAT invoices for taxes that are incurred by the importation of products bought through our service.

Someone suggested them here recently.. noting that they would mark down value, I read the T&Cs, customer reviews.. ect and they don’t.

No bother, i'm happy to help. The M40313s just add to this great resource so kudos to your friend for finding them and noticing that they are a little special. Since the death of GeoCities JP .. (which was never great) this is the only Sugarcane M-Series resource on the webz.. so for years now, you notice the info from here copy/pasted into Yahoo / Mercari / Carousell sales posts, where thrifters have found an old pair of jeans, searched the product code which sends them here.. their WTF! moment when they find a 500 post thread regarding the 30yr old jeans they've just found always makes me smile.. Now, if i can just figure out a way of monetising it.. i'll be rich!.. rich, i tell's ya!

I use friendly forum members.. just put a shout out in the Small Qs thread, i'm sure someone will come to the rescue.

Another pair for sale here @redragon so probably not all that rare. https://zenmarket.jp/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=ewjEkW4R2oxriNhq8tKgJU It's just a case that nobody has noticed the M40313 product code and by doing so has put them into the "1991-2003" catagory of SC production.

Thanks Martin, they're a different pair to the Miura 46s / leaning more towards a war model. @redragon they're basically a pair of SC41947 with an M-Series product code.. protruding back pocket stitch seems to be the only real difference.. Timeline / 25yrs old does track.. the SC47s were released in 2003 so would have been in production in 2001 + 2002 .. possibly conceived in 2000, they could be sample pairs rebranded for Hinoya Anniversary.. my only cause for question would be the lack of arcs which were used liberally on most early 2000 SC repros.. but it doesn't cause me to doubt that they are what your friend thinks they are.. bearing in mind, the previous generation or SC jeans didn't have arcs either. It's a really nice find!

That CSF loop was copied from a pair in the Miura collection so it exists in at least two places.. unless that pair in the 501 book are the Miura 46s?

Well done Martin! Is that^ stitch a loop a’la CSF or stitched through? I don’t have that book, I had Flash’s copy for a while and stored it to memory.. the same memory which forgot all about the Gardeners conversation

What i tend to find with goods hitting the UK border.. stuffs coming in from JP for example.. Zenmarket ..auto-add tax to all purchases, so for goods above the £135 limit, i pay the fees before it's shipped because i'm only going to incur those fees at the UK border +£12 admin charges from Parcelforce.. it's unavoidable so i pay the charges to save £12. The dispatch note states Vat Paid with a VAT number provided so it sails through customs. Here is a second example where i deferred the VAT (no VAT number) but because it hit the UK border with a value of £127gbp (item +shipping) which is under the £135 limit and it’s dispatched from a business no charges are applied. The murkiness (at least in my experience) is when items are shipped from private individuals instead of a registered business, the £135 rule goes out the window and more often than not VAT will be applied, even if the value is £50? I seem to remember @Duke Mantee .. Boris said "we can just ring the prime minister and he would throw the customs forms in the bin" have you tried doing that?

How very odd.. i wonder how it entered the denim-psyche if not via a repro detail? Looking back to Pg1 of this thread.. that stitch detail was apparent on the (1980s) MP-597s which i'm calling a 50s repro but it's not apparent on the (1980s) MP-603 which are a late 40s repro.. It's apparent on the (1991) M41001 but not apparent on the (2003-present) SC-47s so that all tracks as a stitch detail from a pair of 50's Levis .. but then not really..? It's also apparent on the (1991) M41030 / 37 repro?? If it's been a vintage repro detail since the 1980s .. one would have thought, if it was a mistake, it would have been noticed and dropped before now.. Freewheelers, Silverstone, CSF.. who're all using vintage Levi's as benchmark are reproducing that stitch.. albeit, CSF is a loop as opposed to stitch-through .. Unless it's the 'Richard Gere & the gerbil' type detail.. so ingrained in our consciousness that we all just believe it's a thing without any evidence ..

What!? .. how? what's the breakdown of those costs? Might be cheaper to buy each shirt individually and kept the cost of your parcel under £135

Ha! .. James Dean as a toddler

Ah.. ok 🤔.. so pinkline in the year 2000 and V stitch to the top of the waistband, that's unusual.. Peekaboo ID a'la SC-47s but the back pocket stitch resembles the M41001.. Can you see this^ protruding pocket stitch @Dr_Heech ? .. it's used for the Sugarcane M41001 late 40s / early 50s repros .. you don't see it on SC-47s but you do see it on FW-47s albeit protruding less.. off the top of my head, i don't recall seeing it on late 40s - early 50s Levi's but you would know better then i? @redragon does the waistband stitch continue over the fly at 90° like this ? ..or does it stop at the waistband ?

Got up early so i thought i'd do a spot of pike fishing down the canal.. i was even wearing jeans in the "what are your jeans doing thread" .. unheard of right? I'd got a nice piece of aged gruyere.. ..made some scrambled eggs and sourdough for breakfast ..went down to the canal where i spotted an old Reliant Rialto, for the non brits.. these were the cheapest form of motoring for the working man, they only had 3 wheels so they were considered a trike rather than a car so one could drive them on a motorbike license meaning you didn't need to pass a driving test... most were rolled at roundabouts so you don't see them very often. ..fishing with a crayfish lure Vintage Champion / SC47s Narrowboats Pike Pointy Local artist painting with oils ..pretty darn good!

"Don't drink anymore than 3/4s of a bottle" Jeeze.. I'd have to go get my stomach pumped

Speaking of god grifters.. i watched Marjoe yesterday, this is a great docu, it was lost for years.. The story of Marjoe Gortner, born into an evangelical family and preaching prosperity gospel since the age of 4.. obviously trained by his parents, he always knew he was a false prophet (arn't they all) but felt he was offering therapy.. coming to a crossroads in his life after hooking up with the California counter culture.. the film is a little exploitative but it was the 70s Same old story.. even after folks find out he's fake.. most still believe he's the real deal (it's the devil playing tricks on us) like the cult of modern politics.. even when folks are proven to be corrupt.. few will leave, most will stay faithful to the cause.

Oi .. you cheeky cnut!

You're here now.. that's the main thing! It's the transition i find interesting.. at some point we've all decided to start buying very nice pants for some reason?. I'm a little older so my skateboarding years were the mid 90s.. a little film here put out by our local skate store (no sound first 5mins) **It's lovely to see our city center back in the 90s^ .. Aw Sheffield ❤️ Around this period, i was dressed the same as these^ guys in baggy pants and hoody which nowadays is just another generic youth look but in the mid 90s, it was mainly skaters who dressed this way.. Walking through the city there would be a congregation of goths like a sea of black on the city hall steps.. the grunge kids in their misshapen knitwear and converse, the Indy / Leadmill kids, the club kids flyer-ing outside Warp or the normies shopping on the highstreet.. it wasn't difficult to see how folks aligned themselves. **nowadays the city center is a fucking disgrace, all the shops have closed down, the ones that are left open are swarming with security, it's mainly vape shops, phone shops, charity shops and Greggs.. nobody seems to be employed, begging, spice-zombies, god-grifters.. the end is nigh types, "repent your sins!" .. Deliveroo riders carelessly nailing it through pedestrianised areas while folks run for their lives.. half of all folks are not speaking English, there is no integration, piss-heads fighting or puking, waiting for Wetherspoons to open.. folks with clipboards accosting you for money, toothless meth-heads selling stolen dogs.. 1000s of homeless people, sleeping bags and cardboard stuffed into every doorway, the backstreets stink of shit and urine, i used to laugh at the level of deprivation when i would go to Goole or Castleford.. "what the fuck has happened here" but now Sheff is far worse.. even the Cash Converters closed down.. that's how deprived the city is. Sheffield city council are spending millions redeveloping it which seems pointless when nobody has any money to spend.. i'd rather see a response similar to The Return Of The Living Dead where they just fucking nuke it!

Similar thoughts at the end of The Shining?

Yes, he was called Derrick Palfrey, he told me his family name came from Palfreyman (man responsible for palfreys or riding horses / a groom) he lived at Rivelin, he had a wife called Chris, a daughter called Annesley who's a pathologist and a son called Hayden who worked at Richer Sounds.

Remember a few pages back.. i was going on about when i first started my apprenticeship around 1990.. and the patternmakers / master craftsmen would arrive at work wearing a shirt and tie with a waistcoat and a jacket.. their sandwiches in a breifcase, they would take off their jacket, roll up their sleeves and pull on a smock to keep their clothing clean.. they was the last of the gentlemen master pattern makers. I just wore a check flannel and jeans.. much like i do now ..anywho, one of the last surviving master craftsmen of this generation is still alive, i haven't seen him for years because he's been caring for his wife who had dementia, he called in for a coffee on the way to a hospital appointment (i didn't really recognise him at first) i said to him.. next time you're passing, can you drop some old photos in.. which he did yesterday. He's the guy on the far left in the glasses.. this was English Steel in 1954, he was 23yrs old having just left the RAF and he's now 93.. so when i started my apprnticship in 1990 he would have been 59.. i also worked with the young chap in the middle with the dark hair.. he was 19yrs old when this was taken and still an apprentice himself, he died not long after i finished my apprenticeship.

Looking smart and youthfull (before parenthood) in the mid 2000s wearing an Oliver Spencer shirt (and looking at the texture, these are either) SC Okinawa's or Hawaii's

Im blending 2 different conversations here From the year 2000.. Sarah's, Silas & Maria stylised deck jacket, it's grosgrain, alpaca linned (alpaca / acrylic blend) and made in the Eu.. It's even pleated for a 506 x N1 kinda lean.. It was bought down the lanes in Brighton for £280 in the year 2000