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Comment by nannal | Hacker News Reader

Because they don't deliver to europe.

And if it gets stopped in customs, the handling fees, etc. will wipe out any saving.

Very dependent on which country you're from and how expensive your order is. Mine tended to be well below the local threshold which means customs can rummage around all they want, it's not gonna cost anything.

I don't know where you are from but from my EU country I would pay whatever the tax is and not much else. Still vastly cheaper than anything local.

They don't? Is that a new thing? I have like four Zenni glasses.

How much did they end up costing after border taxes?

My previous glasses were about 700 EUR from local shop. I got two pairs of Zenni glasses that cost 120 EUR together with all taxes, shipping, etc. This was few years back. I think they didn't end up caught at the border, but if they did, I'm pretty sure I would still fit into like 10x cheaper than local.

Now I'm a special case, due to crazy level of astigmatism glasses were always very expensive for me. For someone with more normal eyes, this might not be worth the hassle - but what I really like the most is that I can have more pairs to wear depending on my mood and if I break one pair I'm not out of Macbook money.

I expect they don’t “don’t deliver to europe” but they don’t ship from europe, so you’re rolling the dice on import duties depending on the shipper.

They def do, but Lithuania is excluded. I suspect this is due Taiwan issues.

Anyone brave enough to order glasses with Taiwan is a country print?

Define Europe?

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