I paid a considerable amount of money, all things considered but VAT itself was frankly derisory; it was fedex service charges that made the whole thing expensive - 22 CHF fixed rate for each delivery, out of a total of 32-35 CHF. Whew.
Had to look it up, swiss frank is about 1:1 with the euro, so that's pretty bad, fedex fee went up to €18.45 here last year, it was €14.89 on this package though.
Another thing about fedex invoices, they do actually charge VAT on their fee but it's not that apparent, it was listed separately on this invoice but on the packages I received from them last year it did not, I was only able to figure it out because the numbers didn't add up properly unless you added the VAT on their fee.
But yeah, one of the two packages I got from the AL sale last year, the fedex fee was more than the VAT itself, and with the 6 week delay in shipping which caused VAT to be applied, together with the UK VAT having been paid on them already and no refund possible, that one
still annoys me...
I just
really wish AL (and MVM, too) would take part in the OSS VAT payments for the EU, letting us pay it through them, having to pay a fee on each single pre-order now is just encouraging me to wait until whatever it is shows up in a sale and order a bunch together, even if the fee is small.
