I must've just been lucky then, makes me re-consider purchasing goods outside of the EU (and soon the UK) from now on though.
As you tend to have to pay a huge delivery charge ontop of the order, so unless I buy a lot of items it's kinda not worth it even if it's to support a company/channel.
Just weird that all the other times I've never been charged it, I thought it was the case the companies would often pay the charge which is why international delivery tends to be quite expensive. I must've been misinformed in that case.