Found a poster I love but theatre can't ship to UK due to custom charges

[Weareoutofwine]

So trivial... but... I have found a poster that I love. It's by my favourite artist - her work has been used for this seasons performance. She almost never has any work officially available in print or limited edition. It is from the ballet in Zurich and they are selling the posters via their online store. I tried to order it but the theatre cancelled the order - due to very expensive custom charges - they will not ship to the UK.

I am gutted. It's stunning and I will never in a million years be able to afford an original piece by this artist. Also I can't afford to go to Zurich 🤣 to buy it from the actually shop.

Can anyone think of a clever way to get my hands on the poster! I WANT it so much - but like the artists original work - it's totally out of my grasp.

I’ve used forwarding services quite a few times and they’re very useful. Not the cheapest but worth it if you buying from somewhere that only ships domestically.

Start another thread asking if a kind Mumsnetter in Switzerland would accept delivery and send it to you?

Great - I'm going to try this. Fingers crossed.

Go on the Living Aboard/Expat board and see if you can find a Swiss-based MNer who will order then send it on to you here?

Please can you link?
I'd love to see but I can't find the shop at all!

Thank you so much. Will try all to see what works best

Good idea - will try this first before trying frieght etc.

Try MyUS shipping, we found this, the USA seller sends to a myus USA site who ship to the UK, they take care of everything, collection, checking if you need extra packing, vat, customs, flights, deliver to your door in UK and their tracking and updates are excellent, we received a painting within 3 days.

The seller is in Switzerland not the US.

EasyJet there and back same day.

Yes I know, I was replying to the poster I quoted@

I recently used Stackry to get my dd’s Xmas present delivered from the US. The seller didn’t ship to the UK, so after a lot of research and reading reviews for different parcel forwarding companies, I used Stackry and had a really positive experience, would def use them again for something from the US

I bought something on eBay from a seller based in Tuscon, and, in the item description it said that he didn’t ship to the UK.
I really wanted it, and couldn’t find it anywhere else at all, so, I contacted him and offered to be his best friend if he’d sell it to me.

He told me that he had no objection to shipping to the UK, but potential customers usually baulked at the price, and didn’t want to buy the item.
It cost me about £40 to have it shipped over, which wasn’t that bad, really.

I bought something on eBay from a seller based in Tuscon, and, in the item description it said that he didn’t ship to the UK.
I really wanted it, and couldn’t find it anywhere else at all, so, I contacted him and offered to be his best friend if he’d sell it to me.

He told me that he had no objection to shipping to the UK, but potential customers usually baulked at the price, and didn’t want to buy the item.
It cost me about £40 to have it shipped over, which wasn’t that bad, really.

I send documents abroad for work. A simple envelope of documents which doesn't attach customs charges costs about £65 to send there, which is for an express service, but once you've factored in customs charges, you could easily be looking at over £100 from Switzerland. Now if someone could pop over the border to France for you...and plenty do, including people doing their weekly supermarket shop...that would be cheaper.

Start another thread asking if anyone in or near Zurich could help you with something.

If I was there I would, but I'm in the UK now.