Not everything is about the US though

Plus, if they sell to people in the EU they need to charge VAT anyway on the shipping. Some exception apply, but you as a person will not run into them.

Living in The Netherlands means I can check out with iDeal (will become Wero) and often even without an account.

With Amazon I have to check I am on the right store to get actually normal priced shipping (3-5 euro instead of 20-30 euro). If they have something on Amazon.com I can only pay with a creditcard instead of all the normal options other versions of Amazon offer. The only thing Amazon does correct and most other North American stores don’t is add the tax to the price which they are supposed to do.

Same in Europe when buying from North America stores. Listed price is 100 USD so I assume it will be 100 EUR, by the time I received the item I have paid close to 160 EUR and often you need to spend going through filling in your information before it gives you that total price and sometimes they unfairly compete with their prices before tax with other stores with prices after tax. Which is illegal, but hey/

In most places the tax is included in the price and often mandatory because nearly every country in the world can figure out a way to do exactly that.

A lot of webshops in The Netherlands refund the full purchase price including shipping and the bigger once also pay for the return shipment.

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larcenist

Nha mate I am just an assistant-accountant working my ass off for a semi shitty wage after studying for decades.

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Uhm no? In most freaking countries you would have more money to spend during your school years or just after it. Either because school is cheap/free or it’s cheaper because you can continue living at home, etc etc

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People would need to stop using their social media, software, webstores etc.