{"id":5850,"date":"2013-10-25T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:42:57","slug":"ifixit-goes-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"iFixit goes Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-5851\" alt=\"IFixit_new_logo_bumpit\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IFixit_new_logo_bumpit-64x64.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IFixit_new_logo_bumpit-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IFixit_new_logo_bumpit-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IFixit_new_logo_bumpit.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>iFixit has now found it&#8217;s way to Europe. This option now allows European<br \/>\nresidents to order iFixit&#8217;s tools to repair devices like the ones from Apple<br \/>\nor common gadgets like gaming consoles and all the stuff. So you&#8217;ll no<br \/>\nlonger have to worry about taxes and overseas mail.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Located in Stuttgart, Germany, iFixit has selected a relatively central site to ship their tools into whole Europe. Today I placed an order for a professional tool set. Let&#8217;s see, how long it&#8217;ll take to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year I ordered some spare parts for repairing my iPhone 4. Had to change the Home button and the battery pack. Let&#8217;s see if the european mail service beats the 30 days waiting time I had to pass to receive my spareparts from USA. Oh and did I mention that my ordered parts valued US$42, have cost me 93 CHF at last? There were 36 US$ shipping fees and 27 CHF VAT afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>So ordering off the shop in Germany now is more convenient as the shop excludes the german VAT upon ordering and delivery to Switzerland. A total order bill of 56.83 \u20ac+17.90 Mailing fees came to \u20ac73.83. So let&#8217;s see, how much the VAT is to calculate the total.<\/p>\n<p>Visit their store here: <a href=\"http:\/\/eustore.ifixit.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eustore.ifixit.com<\/a> and if you need instructions on how to (dis)assemble your gadget, give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifixit.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ifixit.com<\/a> a try!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iFixit has now found it&#8217;s way to Europe. This option now allows European residents to order iFixit&#8217;s tools to repair devices like the ones from Apple or common gadgets like gaming consoles and all the stuff. So you&#8217;ll no longer have to worry about taxes and overseas mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,2211,3,19],"tags":[761,2725,121,2726,453,1052,36],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economyfinance","category-gadgets-2","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-europe","tag-ifixit","tag-instructions","tag-repair","tag-store","tag-tools","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}