International shipping

[CV Dan]

I would love to make my own build like I always did but in my country the shipping cost and "estimated duty" (witch if someone could explain what that is I'd apriciate) takes a 1500$

build to a 2200$, it's so frustrating that I think it's more worth to order a pre-build from a trusted company like digital storm or some others like it

Does anyone else experienced this just wondering

 

 

P.S: I'm from Portugal

[tikker]

Why not buy locally? You need to pay import duties when buying internationally when the price exceeds a certain threshold.

[CV Dan]

There's not much around and it's actually really dificult to find parts and pc component stores

Edited July 21, 2018 by CV Dan

[Andreas Lilja]

Estimated duty is basically import tariffs. It's a way for a state to generate revenue and/or shield local industry.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, CV Dan said:

There's not much around and it's actually really dificult to find parts and pc component stores

 

Little countries are like that. We have 2 bigger online stores of which one sells customs. Them there are couple local places from which neither sells prebuilds. Bigger chains have stuff from Lenovo, Asus, HP and Dell. Try seaching on Google or find some local (in Portuguese) tech community to ask about. You should also look at Spanish stores if that gives more variety. If not anything else, UK has places which might be willing to ship full-build PC to mainland Europe.

 

Estimated duties are basically import tax. EU controls markets, so electronics outside of EU are under import fees. Buy it from another EU country and you only pay for that countries sales tax and shipping (eg. Germany 21% and €25 for shipping). US stores don't have tax included in prices like in many European countries. Reason being that there tax is determinated by state customer lives, not state store operates from or warehouse is located. So if you check prices, tax will only be added after you have entered billing address.

 

Due import tax being a thing, I don't recommend buying stuff outside of EU unless its rare, used (tax might be there, but as lowered) or otherwise hard to get.

[Quadriplegic]

Just buy stuff from EU? Won't have to pay taxes that way. 
And f*** Amazon, it's useless. Check scan.co.uk or mindfactory.de 
Ebay works too.

[LogicalDrm]

21 hours ago, Quadriplegic said:

... mindfactory.de

Mindfactory doesn't sell people from outside Germany unless they have registrated company.

[IntMD]

The estimated duty will usually included any import duty (not all items have this) & usually any VAT you have to pay, which you would pay in you bought in your local country anyway, which appears to be 23% on its own...

 

https://www.caseking.de/en & https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ both have the same owner and ship worldwide from what I remember, or like someone else said, whatever your closest amazon is if you can get the parts there.