vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
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- gip_glp_gil — vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat 14:53
- gip_glp_gil — i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 25 days once 15:15
- amsterdam_aliquot — the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does 16:16
- ghk_gia — poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they… 17:28
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
unrelated but as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it, someone check my working
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 25 days once
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*VendorInvestigate not the other one
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
poland was cheapest
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has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
approval isnt reimbursement
unrelated but the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year, still working it out
three working days
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
right so how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, i could be wrong
update from 17 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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handling fee is worse than vat
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
diabetes yes weight no
varies by pharmacy
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
12 days inside the eu
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
[edited]check the date on that
sorry to jump in pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
coming back to this is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to