looking for someone willing to ship to Europe

I may be able to help, what website would you be ordering from?

It's not decided yet. I was currently just looking for someone willing to do that. Now I can search further to it but I seem to remember that I could find it with Marmot Mountain Works and Amazon. But that's not the final list.

Stephen is one of the best shippers over on Gear Swap.

I lived in Belgium before moving to the Us and the Belgian customs often charged a 25euro processing fee on top on taxes on the insured value.

Yes, I know, but sometimes you get lucky and you don't have to pay anything (so also no duties and VAT). It's a lottery.

If Stephen is busy, I can do it. We have a great local PO. No lines and only 5 blocks away.

It is a lottery Tom.

If its marked as a gift it helps.

Thanks.

@StephenM: does it need to be marked as a gift already when buying or only when it's shipped to me ?

>"If its marked as a gift it helps."

If it's WRAPPED like a gift, that helps even more. You could just use Sunday comic pages and write "Happy late Birthday!" or "Here's your Christmas Party early for a change!"

In so many cases where you are skirting the rules, it is all about appearances.

My best "non-trail, Trail Angel" effort this last year was bringing over two 50-pound packages as free bags and then mailing them in the German post to a German friend for about 22 Euros instead of $400 to ship them from the USA. But my next Europe trip is not until March.

I've done the reship thing for people, but I'm in Alaska, so the USA portion is often more.

just when shipping onwards Tom, as far as I remember with a gift 40-50euro is exempt, it's on insured value they catch people on, lower value items normally get through.

What David recomnends helps also.

Also you are more likely to pay the admin fee if sent to a business address, I learned that the hard way.