Forum: Photography


Subject: Where to buy my camera???

Zacko opened this issue on Apr 01, 2005 ยท 14 posts


CDBrugg posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 3:15 AM

If you're buying from the USA instead of Europe, don't forget to think of 1. shipping costs 2. warranty - how happy will Swedish dealers be to service/repair? 3. Customs duty when you import 4. VAT (ridiculously high in Sweden) on top of import duty. One possibility you might look at is nipping over the border to Norway, buying it there and claiming the VAT back as you are buying it for export into the EU. Then (naughty, naughty) not declaring it to the Swedish customs. (Da*n, I'm not sure this will work as Norway is a member of the EEA). This certainly works if you come to Switzerland (VAT = 7.6%)

Charles