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Tried switching countries around. For their "free" shipping, if I switch countries from mine to the US the cost of the book drops to a third of what I was orig

Tried switching countries around. For their "free" shipping, if I switch countries from mine to the US the cost of the book drops to a third of what I was originally seeing. Goes from quite expensive to fairly cheap. When shipping internationally, you need to declare the cost of goods shipped for customs purposes - but do you need to include in that the cost of the shipping? If not - I suspect not but am not 100% sure - this approach of building shipping costs into book price may result in a massive increases in costs paid to import the books in question.

kps 4y ago
> do you need to include in that the cost of the shipping? I think it depends on the country. Here (Canada) I believe you are instructed to include the shipping cost, but in practice they charge by the declared invoice amount, and vendors generally don't include shipping in that. For BWB, it used to be the case that if you happened to have a US IP address (as I sometimes did from work), you'd be given the US price regardless of the destination. That was fixed years ago.