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Originally Posted by Treehouse_Ryan
If anyone has a lot of experience with this, or has bought from US companies that have a less painful process, PM me with some details and we'll track down everything we can....
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Ryan, thanx for your answers as well.
Regarding international orders, ofcourse some extra charges are acceptable under any countries' laws.
The thing you should do, is under any circumstancies
DO NOT use any express shipping option from companies like UPS, DHL, FEDEX.
In many countries they charge not only the taxes that expected by law, but also some other handling fees that are almost what you pay for the item!!!
If i'm not mistaken XPO International are partners with USPS, so if you use the simpliest method of shipping, then we receive the items from our local post office with no problems and no additional charges that are not expected.
With XPO I never had any problems, except for some cheapest items, I have bought the CE of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe which was around $100 if i recall correctly.
Furthermore, I have tons of orders from amazon.com, videogamesplus.ca, american ebay sellers etc and when they use standard shipping options, I never have a problem.
In addition to that you should check out AmazonGlobal program, which gives you the opportunity to pay in advance an import fee and what you see in the checkout is the final paypent. They probably have a deal with the courier companies.
I understand that amazon is huge, so another example is the Irrational store which have the same option, prepaid import fees while they use DHL as a carrier and an express shipping option with standart cost of $35.