Paphos Life

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They have a selection of Health Tracker Watches by the tills in the Sports Shop in the Mall on the top floor. Bought the wife an MI Smart Band 6 and it does everything she wants. You can spend from €20 to €200.

Wife got one from Electroline but that was a couple of years ago.

For items you used to buy from Amazon I can recommend that you now use Amazon Germany (Amazon.de) You can view the site in English and all of the items I have ordered through them this year have been delivered very quickly (within days) by UPS or DHL to my door.

Galini wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:28 pm For items you used to buy from Amazon I can recommend that you now use Amazon Germany (Amazon.de.com) You can view the site in English and all of the items I have ordered through them this year have been delivered very quickly (within days) by UPS or DHL to my door.

Be careful, not all of the items, come from European countries, so you might still be hit with duty's.

Galini wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:28 pm For items you used to buy from Amazon I can recommend that you now use Amazon Germany (Amazon.de.com).

I think you need to leave out the .com at the end.

jeba wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:25 pm

Galini wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:28 pm For items you used to buy from Amazon I can recommend that you now use Amazon Germany (Amazon.de.com).

I think you need to leave out the .com at the end.

Well spotted Jeba, thanks - now edited

One of the last items we ordered from Amazon DE was actually shipped from the supplier in the UK. It hasn't arrived yet but it will be interesting to discover whether or not we pay extra charges. We've just ordered some supplements from DE. It says "despatched by Amazon" so we shall see if we have to pay extra on these too as the supplier is in the UK.

I can only guess, but I would guess that there would be extra to pay, unless the price is under the threshold

kansas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:34 pm One of the last items we ordered from Amazon DE was actually shipped from the supplier in the UK. It hasn't arrived yet but it will be interesting to discover whether or not we pay extra charges. We've just ordered some supplements from DE. It says "despatched by Amazon" so we shall see if we have to pay extra on these too as the supplier is in the UK.

I think if it's despatched from a Germany Amazon warehouse ("fullfilled by Amazon") you're ok, but if it is sent from the UK you will be charged. This happened to me and I was charged. The package was posted in UK, even though ordered and paid in Germany, and its total cost, including postage, was around €15, but I paid around €6 to the Cyprus post office if I remember right, 21% VAT and the standard €3.50 customs charges.

Since 1 July there is no minimum amount, everything goes through customs and is charged VAT. My package was posted in June, so I shouldn't have been charged, but since I picked it up from a sub post office there was no-one there I could argue it with.

Ordered an item from Amazon De, came from China, no extra charges..... delivered to home address in Cyprus...
Think rules have recently changed....