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Old 08-05-2015, 02:32 PM
Renato1 (Renato)
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Originally Posted by JB80 View Post
It's an EU wide thing, you pay VAT on anything entering the EU from outside and are normally hit with customs too. Each country may have a slightly different way of dealing with it but order from the US or anywhere and you will normally get that 20% VAT hit.
It certainly stops me from ordering items that are unavailable locally(in the EU).
On Ebay, the only EU country that Asian sellers say they won't sell to because of the amount of time to clear customs, is Italy. I suspect Italy does things very differently from other EU countries.
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Renato
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