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Buying electronics from EU; Duty & VAT? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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I'm thinking of buying a new laptop from a business in Spain (Slimbook fwiw), but it's not clear to me from what I've read online whether or what kind of additional charges I'd have to pay. Has anyone else been through the process already?

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're totally wedded to buying from Spain have you considered a UK seller?

https://starlabs.systems/ is amazing BTW.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would love to buy from them and their new Starbook mk7 is actually my first choice but it's about 50% more expensive than Slimbook's equivalent. Starlabs would be much easier to get customer support from though and their model comes with Coreboot, which I would like. Perhaps I should by a scratch card or go down to Hampshire and try and haggle the price down!

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah fair enough. I love mine but it wasn't a saver on price as Linux laptops once were. Still a cracking laptop though.