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Scenario 1:
You buy the set from a german vendor for 133$ plus 19% VAT and 7$ shipping, you end up paying 165.27$
Scenario 2:
You buy the set from a american vendor for 133$, pay 19% import taxes and 20$ shipping, you end up paying 178.27$
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Scenario 3: You live in Sweden and get royally ****ed. $133 for the set from an American vendor, ~$20 in shipping cost, between 0-20% import tax depending on the kind of product, in this case ~10%, on both keyset and shipping cost. Then you also have to pay 25% in VAT, on both the keyset, the shipping and the import fee. Additionally you have to pay a fee of ~$14 to the shipping company for their 'service' of filling out the import form for you. So in total ~$225.
Scenario 4: You live in Sweden and buy it from a German vendor. You pay $133 for the set, the 19% German VAT, maybe ~$10 shipping, and then no import tax, no extra Swedish VAT and no extra fee to the shipping company. In total ~$168.
That's $57 I, as a Swede, have to pay for no good reason. If I buy, say, three different GMK sets from the US instead of Germany, I've paid for a fourth set in taxes.
I do, however, get it. This is a niche hobby and the community is much larger in the US and it's cheaper for them to just buy it from a vendor in their own country when there is no German VAT applied, and therefore you get more people buying the set. But it would be nice with an EU-proxy, especially when you aren't running it through Massdrop. I mean, sure, $57 isn't that much money, but I can do more fun things with it instead of paying unnecessary taxes and import fees.
All in all it's a nice set, even though I like the SA version more. Good luck with the GB
