Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
What about tariffs? I don't think your government would be too happy with you buying American goods that the government can't tax.
Now that you mention it, I once had to smuggle a laptop across the border, on account of the duty on the laptop I'd bought for a friend being more than the cost of the laptop. I tried shipping it up there originally, but it came back back as refused after customs opened it up and went to asses their absurd tariffs and whatnot - good thing I live close enough to drive to the border, and not in Texas or something.

Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
As it happens here in Holland if you buy from outside the EU you have to count on paying VAT on your purchase. Things slip through of course but you appear to forget that a value has to be declared and that major companies unlike Chinese webshops are not inclined to lie about content and value of what they ship.
That's not true. A lot of the imported goods I get, from major companies are "cleverly" miscategorized and declared as being worth small fractions of their actual values.