M-City 🇵🇱 Print Release • Show News • Art For Sale, by slacker on Mar 28, 2008 8:26:03 GMT 1,

baracass said:

I think HMP are always going to find it hard to ingratiate themselves with the overseas market when (despite the image - whether it be hit or miss) they charge customers X amount delivery (eg. £16 for the UK customers - too much IMO) knowing that their customers will also get hit with an extra customs charges on top of that. I've passed on the last several HMP releases because I don't know what it is going to end up costing me.I understand that the customs charges are out of their control (there are ways around this regarding the way things are labelled, wink, nudge etc) but still feel it doesn't work in their favour. I know s**t is expensive in Norway but should that translate into studiply expensive postage fees for customers? Perhaps they've dropped the prices initially to head off these extra buyer overheads. I'm certainly not in the know - just expressing an opinion.

That said, gotta say massive props for the quality of the prints which are totally worth the dosh at the end of the day though. They certainly don't cut any corners. A print house with great integrity and brilliant looking finished products that look the nuts.

I think the M-City print is a touch cliche but fantastic none the less. Overcrowding and hyper-extending the resources, limits and consequences of our inner city spaces will eventually cause an implosion that has most certainly already begun and is hard to imagine a fix that doesn't involve the decline of the human race. Or maybe I've missed the point completely.

if they called it £120 with free postage then nobody would be complaining. it would still be very cheap by pow standards.

there's not a lot they can do about the import duty situation unless they move their operation to within the european union. it is no different to buying a print from the united states though. i have bought about 5 prints from hmp so far and have never been hit for duty (touch wood). my brother in law has bought the same prints and has never been hit either.