From where I am, to send a 12x3x3 box to Hedmark, Norway via UPS will cost $120 dollars. Crossing the Atlantic is not cheap. To charge $55 dollars for the parts and the time removing/shipping them is fair, why not(have you seen where they are)? I don't know about you but my time is valuable to me. If he chooses not to buy them...meh, whatever. And yes, they're gold plated titanium lines!
And yours are not??