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WebParrot Posted at 3-31 19:27
Can't help you here! You folks have all those tariffs. VATs, exchange rates, shipping fees (I tried to order a custom ukulele' from a luthier in Milan and shipping was $125 US !! The damn thing only weighted 3.5 pounds, packed!)
Just some digression...
VATs unfortunately are picking up and rising throughout the world at an alarming rate, the US isn't exempt. Exchange rates well... it's pretty much world banking business, Exchange points are notoriously a rip off everywhere.
If you'd ask me IT is plagued by customs regulation dating back to Mussolini's era, oftentimes than not I have shipments from China delayed by 1.5 months where it takes about 15 to 20 days most of UE and RUS. Meanwhile I know from facts that avoiding the customs altogether DHL was able to deliver me quite a big package from HK (to IT) in 3 working days.
What I've noticed and I don't know if Mr. Trump administration has anything to do with it, is that I can finally buy from the US without paying import duties for reasonable amounts, like say when you buy a baseball cap, but still I haven't got reasonable shipping fees. But I am betting they will eventually come.
Concerning shipping fees is the usual cartel... I can buy 1 EUR items being delivered from China, that is the product, the service, the shipment including the IT one up to my door. Meanwhile if I want to send a letter to my neighbor via the Post office I have to shell out 1.2 EUR. There were times in which a normal national shipment from regular carriers outside the public one would have set you back (end user) something like 50 EUR, fast forward 15 years you can do with just about 6 EUR ! Sellers' international EU area shipping fees dropped as much as making most of EU almost as if they were shipments within the same country. |
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