On Fri 11 May 2018 at 08:40:40 -0500, Jim Brain wrote: > I will concede shipping is a beast, and then there's lots of customers who > complain to me about VAT/GST/etc. The VAT isn't even the worst; what I find so frustrating about importing to the Netherlands is the extra fee on top that the post office charges you for the priviledge of taking the VAT from you. It adds another $20 (roughly) even when the VAT itself is almost trivial... That's not something you can do something about it but it has prevented me from buying stuff on various occasions. (Hm... since this means the fee "hinders trade", I wonder if it could be considered illegal under some free trade agreement or other...) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.
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