Guitar gently weeps

Another case of security overkill? A friend spotted this item on an expat website, posted by a guitarist looking for an amplifier:

I am stuck in Beijing, where the Olympics is making my life miserable! Believe it or not, one of the crazy regulations here is that nothing electronic can be shipped here until the end of September, or later. Hence, there are no decent amplifiers. The dealers are understandably even more p'd off than the customers