Shipping costs for decks of cards is expensive when you live in England . I can't buy for example limited decks from artofplay, theory 11 or similar sites unless I want a 10 dollar shipping fee and roughly a 21 day wait ;/
ikryea shipping is nuts right now. I just purchased a vinyl record from the UK and it was over $40 because of shipping which is insane!
not much you can do other than pay it. It isn't the fault of the companies that charge it, that's what they are paying to ship
(First post here, yay!)
Lyle, is there a database somewhere of local magic shops? I grew up in the Los Angeles area, lived here all my life, and the only "magic shop" I know of is in Las Vegas. Sure, Target has a nice selection of Theory11 cards, but as far as I know that's only very recently.