I am a happy eBay customer today.  Ordered an item from USA on 16th December.  The price was half UK price with free p and p.  It arrived on 27th December .  Considering it  came from the states to a rural part of Wales in that time with the Christmas rush and holiday in the way, I am impressed.  Nothing to do with this thread I know but i do want to praise the seller.  

I had two books from USA via amazon recently and they took 3 weeks each to arrive.sandra