Deathwing00's Space WebLog of Ioannis Aslanidis (aka Deathwing Zero Zero)

Disgusted with the Spanish government

I am very disgusted with the Spanish government and their later actions. I bought a couple of books and two T-shirts from the USA, the books from O'Reilly and the T-shirts from Valve.

The books I bought are Learning Python, 4Ed for $54.99 and Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, 1Ed for $49.99. I payed $39.48 for International Air Shipping.

The T-shirts I bought are the Portal 2 Logo T-shirt for $19.99 and Portal 2 Test Candidate Shirt for $19.99, as well. I payed $20.00 for International Air Shipping.

These two companies did not respect what they claimed and used DHL instead. The guys from DHL are not very smart as they go through customs, which is not really compulsory for low cost purchases for personal use.

Besides, the Spanish government has changed their laws. Formerly, they were imposing duty tolls on purchases of value above 150€. They changed it, and now they impose a duty tall to packages from the USA of 19.50€ + 18% from anything worth 22.00€ or more.

My T-shirts cost $39.98 plus $20.00 for shipping and I have to pay around $35 more for them. That's 33% more. What a shame!

This abhorrent measure from the Spanish government is seriously shameless. Besides pulling of lots of money of my salary by their ridiculously high taxes and their miserable social security system, I am now forced to pay absurdly elevated duty tolls for books and clothes. This is so unacceptable and plain wrong. Why don't they tax themselves with their excessive salaries instead?

This is just so frustrating.