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Yeah, the €20'ish thousands was the kind of number I was vaguely remembering the threshold being. I did manage to get some things totally VAT free from Amazon many, many years ago when they had only just set up the .co.uk and with them shipping to me in Ireland I managed to avoid all those charges, I also seem to remember the shipping being pretty cheap then as well.
I order quite a bit of sports gear online as well from UK stores and the prices they charge change to reflect the destination VAT rates once you select where you live. There is also some sellers in the Channel Islands, which are outside of the EU but within the UK or some variation on that, where you can avoid paying VAT on their products as well. Just depends on if the parcel gets spotted coming into your country and then customs invent some inflated VAT rate to charge you if they think it is over €25 worth of product.
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