Hi folks,
There have been some problems in the shipping fee on the Ethermagic.eu website. Shipping to the USA from the Netherlands was incredibly high at more than 45 Euro. This was a result of people asking me about the 19% Dutch sales tax, which only applies to customers within the European Union.
The problem is though, that to not have to pay the 19% sales tax, I need proof that the product was sold to, payed by, and shipped to a country outside Europe. The tax office only accepts official export papers that the regular shipping service via the post office cannot provide. So I did some research on it and got myself a UPS account. I can now export officially to any country in the world. The only problem is that a basic envelope (!) to the USA already costs 45.90 Euro.
(The only good thing about it is that UPS delivers in 3-5 working days, instead of 2-3 weeks.)
Additionally, the web store system automatically deducts the 19% sales tax when ordering from the USA or any other non-EU country.
So now the UPS shipping options for envelopes have now been removed from the ethermagic.eu website. When ordering from a non-EU country, the shipping fee will include the complete sales tax.
Module (49.58) + regular shipping (2.90) + Sales tax (9.97) = 62.45 Euro (83.61 USD on the date of posting) (+ 3.4% paypal fee on the module, if you choose this payment option.)
Also, the ESPE01 module can now be bought via ebay.com. The price there is a bit higher as it includes the ebay commission fee as well. (95 USD including regular shipping worldwide.)
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=espe01&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Cheerio,
Wilco