yeah, I'm in the mood for a rant right now
Funny thing is, I have an option to order from a European reseller (there's a link on the iRex .eu website) that would ship the item to Serbia (which is in the neighbourhood, and they are not EU) BUT the price is still €499, regardless of the fact that the purchaser does not live in an EU-country!
oh, by the way, Croatian VAT is 23%, as of last autumn, and a new law is in the works that could see the VAT rise to 24% - it's unbelievable...
So, if somebody would care to calculate: €500 + €115 (Croatian VAT) + €50 (approx. customs - they usually take 10% of the price value)
that makes a whopping €665 + shipping for an iRex DR800, and I do live in Europe (I mean, geographically Croatia is Central Europe, much more to the north than, say, Greece or Spain). But the iRex bunch don't give a f...