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
#eu 2026-02-18
Wednesday28 messages8 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- nordic_price_nils — parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly 21:09
- nordic_price_nils — the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here 21:10
- customs_owl — crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it the language barrier with support is real. i write… 22:10
- customs_owl — a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year 22:12
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot B-0329. Nothing logged either way. 22:14
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
send both languages
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither, happy to be corrected
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not, not advice obviously
nordics are brutal
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
poland was cheapest
sorry to jump in i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 13 days once
follow up statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation, thats one data point
approval isnt reimbursement
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you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
three working days
sorry to jump in no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
genuine question that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
netherlands was reported in here at around 200 euros a month out of pocket a year or so ago, with conditions attached to any reimbursement
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
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unrelated but i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, still working it out
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
*PeptideMeter not the other one
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
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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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
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Purity check: no report on file for lot B-0329. Nothing logged either way.