any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
#eu 2026-06-12
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Highlights from this day
- madrid_mg — is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself 21:13
- madrid_mg — genuine question 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 21:19
- ghk_gia — quick one i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, happy to be corrected 21:29
- ghk_gia — my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did 21:32
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
three working days
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is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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 - 260🧊1
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
poland was cheapest
genuine question 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
slightly off topic but how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
send both languages
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
quick one i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, happy to be corrected
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
that was 2024 pricing
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 23 days once