WTF ?! Shipping + Custom Duties = 50% the price of the build!!

brb192

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Hey guys what's going on :)

Now i'm gonna make this short, i have 1,500$, sounds enough to build a BEAST PC right ?

Ok, i will be ok with a 750$ build will tell you, because i don't live in US.
Now i will be shopping my parts from Amazon, and all the components will cost me 750$, i will use a mail forwarding service to receive the component for me and send them to my country got it ?

The shipping cost of all the components is 200$!! the price is big because of the weight of the components, like the case and the PSU, but the CPU, GPU is not a problem to ship them. That's 750+200 = 950$

Ok ok i'm alright with that price, BUT there is another thing that pisses me off!! the custom duties, in my country the TVA of the custom duties are 50% and maybe even more of the components and the shipping costs, so 950 x 50 / 100 = 475$!!

WTF ?! that's more than 50% of the build price! :( :( :(

And don't suggest me to shop the components from my country, cause my country really sucks and the components that i'm looking for are not there, even if they're in my country, it will be very very expensive!

I'm really sad!