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First i thought: Great price! the 20mm is sold easily if u dont need it. The shipping cost to europe are no dealbreaker too.
Until i saw the ridiculous import costs : $482,15 REALLY!!?!
Thats even more then standard 21% import tax (I live in the Netherlands)
Yeah, I don’t get how eBay calculates it. Obviously it’s ~20 % of the price and shipping cost and they will charge for doing the customs paperwork, but it’s like €120 more than what the import tax alone would be. Charging €100 for taking care of dealing with customs is ridiculous. FedEx, UPS and DHL charge something like €10~20.
That’s not eBay; the seller chose to use the available Global Shipping Program, which is Pitney Bowes. I read one time, probably from a link on the shipping info on an eBay auction, how they calculate the charges.
I agree that they are high; I’m going to use them for a much smaller purchase of something I can’t find where I live, but I wouldn’t pay that much extra for a higher-priced thing such as the camera under discussion here.
I tried to figure it out it once, totally forgot that it’s actually done by Pitney Bowes. The auction displays an estimate and states that it will be confirmed at checkout. It lists what type of charges the total can be comprised of, but there is no way to see how the estimate has been calculated. There’s no specific information on how exactly it gets so much higher than just customs charges.
But I’m suspecting there are additional taxes for certain camera equipment adding to it. There is a reason why European cameras are restricted to recording video clips with a 29:59 minute limit, maybe it’s also relevant when bringing an American or Asian model to Europe.
I’m sure there’s a hefty commission builtin. I’ve been running into this a lot recently because I’m working in Seoul and so I have to use eBay a lot for things I could normally just walk into a store and get in the US. For example, B&H has the DP3 for $699 now; I’d love to be able to go there and get one, wouldn’t even mind giving NY state their taxes.
You have just to skirt ebay with a TOR connection, then to pray that your local customs service doesn’t see your package > most of the case you can win 20% off.
I don’t think that would help. o.o At some point you will have to specify to which country you want to have it shipped.