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That works great until you end up paying more in processing fees than the value of the item.
Or when you pre-pay the tax online when buying an item, the shipper doesn't mark the package correctly and the local post service tells you you have to pay the tax a second time and ask the seller for a refund of the prepaid tax. Of course that involves a long time spent chatting with a CS rep who doesn't seem to understand the problem, and they refuse to refund you for the extra processing fee. (Looking at AliExpress here. Still, don't have much of a choice.)
Or a friend decides to be nice and send you a gift for Christmas but you end up having to pay more in taxes and tax processing fees than the actual value of the gift.
Oh and did I mention the tax here in Norway is 25% of the item value _plus_ the shipping cost?
Lots of things cost less themselves than theirn packaging transaction costs. That's why we have economics of scale.
That is mainly because Norway wants to be special. I have non of these issues but then again my country is part of the one stop shop scheme due to being in the EU.
I already do tho lmao, anything that comes from the US or is shipped with UPS even outside the US is just ridiculous.
6£ ultra pro card deck box from their European website...they try to force people to use UPS shipping for that at 90£ shipping, Belgium warehouse to UK. Ended up not buying because that's just plain ridiculous.