Has anyone swapped to amazon.de or amazon.fr for orders? Any tips or tricks?
I haven't used them since Brexit, but I have ordered from the German, French and Spanish sites a few times. For any expensive items it's well worth heading along to the likes of and see which site is cheapest, in some cases the savings can be fairly chunky.Has anyone swapped to amazon.de or amazon.fr for orders? Any tips or tricks?
I did recently use german site for some computer parts. It was cheaper than uk site even with the bigger delivery cost.Has anyone swapped to amazon.de or amazon.fr for orders? Any tips or tricks?
Just by way of comparison I ordered stuff from a uk website the other day and safe to say I won’t be doing it again if it can be avoided.
I ordered something from Amazon UK recently. It came to €25.36 (£21. 91) including Irish VAT but free postage. It arrived fairly promptly with no extra charges.For VAT purposes the value is the (cost plus handling, transport and insurance, plus any customs duty). Its this "value" that needs to be under the €22 limit, not the cost of the goods only. Irish VAT is calculated on the value. (No UK VAT should be charged)
You can get all English books on Amazo.de. If you can’t find it, look it up on Amazon.com and use the ISBN to find it on .de... .uk has not worked in mainland Europe for a while now so .de is the go to for English books.I've tried both and German Amazon is MUCH better than French Amazon.
Price is in general lower and selection better. You'd be surprised how wide the selection of English books there are on amazon.de.
thanks pmu for that info ,looking at getting some booksThere is no VAT on books in the UK or in IE
did they sell to you ex UK VAT?Just by way of comparison I ordered stuff from a uk website the other day and safe to say I won’t be doing it again if it can be avoided. I spent two days trying to find the exact thing I needed in Irl but couldn’t.
item cost £15
Shipping £13 (would only send Dpd tracked international even though items small enough to post)
total £28
email this morning from dpd
Customs fee €6
Brokerage fee €5
Vat €1.66
item cost £15
Transport £13
Customs etc €13
madness
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