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Originally Posted by FutureBSD
What would you guys recommend when I'd like to buy on of this devices from the US and ship it over to germany?
I don't have any contacts in the states to buy a device and ship it over to germany.
If you've some solutions that would be great :-)
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I've ordered about half of my readers in the US (I'm from Germany as well).
To give you some rules of thumb:
- US price + 10% fee to your distributor
- ca. $ 40 for shipping
- ca. € 50 for tax and VAT if you have to pay them (sometimes you're lucky)
Usually, the result is quite simple: The US price in $ will add up to the very same amount in €. With Sony 900 I've been lucky, about 7% (in €) below the US price (in $). With Kindle 2, customs partially did kill the fun. It added (in €) about 10% above the US price (in $).
So, if you estimate 1:1 the very same amount, you easily can decide, whether shipping from the US makes sense or not.
Keep in mind: In case of warranty, you'll run into troubles. Usually, you can't have it repaired here, but have to ship it back to the US.
(Just wanted to tell you this. You probably shouldn't worry too much about warranty. In my experience, those gadgets either are defect from the very beginning or never at all.)
Personally, I don't order in the US to save money, but to have my gadgets ahead of time. Or to have them at all (Sony 700 never officially made it to Germany, if I remember correctly).