Negative. Now… what we are supposed to do is keep track of online purchases for which we have not paid our State (regional) sales tax… then claim that amount on our year-end tax return to the government. Almost no one does… Any seller we buy from outside of our own State (i.e Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Vermont, etc… ) won’t be charging sales tax, as that varies depending on where you live… BUT, if a retailer has a physical presence in our State, like a brick and morotr storefront, then they can and do charge the applicable sales tax.
Otherwise, as far as ordering stuff from China, Japan, Finland, etc… nah… no import taxes or duties that I am aware of. That may be different for large items, or extremely expensive stuff, like automobiles being bought and imported, but those have significantly more paperwork attached to them.
Kind of a bummer now that Amazon built that huge fulfillment center in Livonia. Have to pay State sales tax on Amazon fulfilled orders now.
As far as US import duties, I believe we are allowed $200 if you have something shipped to you, and $400 if you bring it with you from traveling abroad.
At this point my favorite budget knife is my zt 0808 clone. Smooth one-hand open and close with a smooth bearing pivot. Much better than the Ganzo knives I have. Not to say they’re bad but the 0808 clone is better. Wish I could find one with the Ti handle. It isn’t serrated but has handled every cut superbly and is still un re-sharpened. A bargain for the $20.xx paid. I REALLY like it. I would have slept better when I was at the quarterly stop in Wobeck with it vs the knife I normally had under my pillow - a case p62 - 4 1/2. The early 80s was a very tense period… The Case has the bonus of being silent due to the fixed blade and the quality of the blade although I did bend it abusively testing it against a car (1980s - before ‘cold steel’ started doing it). FWIW I was with the US military, but that’s all I can disclose.
The “real” Ti handle clone version (quite good to perceive by the screw for the stainless lock bar insert) of the ZT0808 is currently avaiable at Dc_outdoor,
which i.m.o. is one of the recommandable sellers on DHgate. But with 61.21 $ it is far from being as budget as the steel version.
At post No. 2033 on this thread BLF member @Erethryn, who seems to live in the U.K. as well, says that it’s possible to modify the Ganzo F759M into a slipjoint, and where is even to find a link where is sth. to read about how to do it.
There are also some clones of Sydercos Byrd Tern slipjoint knife “hanging around”, that are avaiable around 10 $ or even less as well.
Just an update on that, I may have gotten lucky on my first attempt or unlucky on the second one I tried to modify.
The first one still works great as a slipjoint (carrying it today in fact), but I messed up the grinding on the second one. It sometimes slips, but occasionally “locks”. The metal of the back lock now protrudes out too high too.
Basically, it’s definitely possible to do, but you may wreck a knife or two before getting it right.
Thanks, there seems to a lot of cheap China knives with no-lock, But i think the Spyderco clone i saw had no-lock but was out of stock, I think maybe i miss-remmber.
Thanks anyway.
EDIT: this one, 59mm blade and no-lock but out of stock.
Technical question: Apologies if this has been covered before but I could not find anything about it.
Why do some folders come with one teflon washer & one brass washer.
Why not both the same ?