In April 2019 we at
tastebrandy.com opened a new warehouse in Croatia for the EU customers. Now we
are supplying from Croatia to the rest of the EU, mostly via road couriers.
Why?
1.
Why Do I
Have to Order My Own Shipping?
It’s quite a normal
question: „Why can’t I pay you for the delivery and you just drop it over to my
place?“ What’s the bothering about?
We suggest you pay for
the courier. Because if we pay for the courier, we as a seller, would be
obliged to charge you with the excise duty and VAT in your country. If you
order brandy from Finland, we would have to charge you the Finnish excise duty
on alcohol and the Finnish VAT. It means our regarded plum Brandy Uspomena
Memory would cost €36.99 instead of €13.87. The difference of over €20 just for
this single bottle covers all the
shipping costs from Croatia to Finland.
If you pay for the
shipping, according to actual EU regulations, it is considered as if you bought
it in Croatia and ordered the courier to go to our warehouse in Croatia,
collect your brandy and bring it over north straight to Finland.
If we pay for the shipping,
it’s not just that we would sell it at 36.99€, but we would still have to
charge you the same price for the shipping.
But we took care of it
and made it quite simple for you. All what you have to do is to click on the
link and pay for the shipping. We do the rest. We take care of the packaging,
cardboxes, polystyrene, fragile items, etc. We know how to handle it.
If you want to know
how to order your own shipping, please go to: http://slivovitz.tastebrandy.com/how-to-order-shipping-at-tastebrandy-com/
2.
Croatian Excise
Duty Is the Second Lowest In the EU
When buying at
tastebrandy.com, you ar actually buying Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin,
Macedonian or Bosnian slivovitz plum brandy at Croatian prices. The customers
receive their parcels free of any further customs duty. Croatian excise duty
and VAT is already calculated into the price.
Croatia has the 2nd
lowest excise duty on alcohol in the EU. The highest excise duties on alcoholic
beverages have Sweden, Finland, Ireland, UK. To ilustrate how much can be saved
if buying in Croatia, we bring you the table: 10 of our selected slivovitz
bottles with prices in Croatia and other EU countries:
|
Prices in EUR
|
|
Croatia
|
Sweden
|
Finland
|
Ireland
|
United
Kingdom
|
Denmark
|
Poland
|
Italy
|
Sokolica Slivovitz Stara Sokolova 1 L
|
17.44
|
52.58
|
51.22
|
45.98
|
37.07
|
29.04
|
23.32
|
20.85
|
Manastirska Slivovitz Simex 1 L
|
12.96
|
51.76
|
50.22
|
44.07
|
33.72
|
23.74
|
17.09
|
14.24
|
Rubin vinjak 1 L
|
15.99
|
46.88
|
45.61
|
40.64
|
32.23
|
24.47
|
19.06
|
16.73
|
Plum Brandy Uspomena 0.7 L
|
13.78
|
37.97
|
36.99
|
33.24
|
26.84
|
21.11
|
17.00
|
15.2
|
Plum Brandy Old Oak 0.7 L
|
15.86
|
39.42
|
38.47
|
34.94
|
28.90
|
23.73
|
19.84
|
18.16
|
Plum Brandy Kovilj Monastery 0.7 L
|
18.84
|
45.29
|
44.29
|
40.72
|
34.53
|
29.59
|
25.61
|
23.88
|
Quince Brandy Golden Valley 0.7 L
|
21.27
|
46.32
|
45.29
|
41.54
|
35.08
|
29.84
|
25.68
|
23.87
|
Quince Brandy Crown Exclusive 0.7 L
|
28.90
|
54.47
|
53.36
|
49.47
|
42.68
|
37.61
|
33.23
|
31.33
|
Williams Pear Brandy Perun 0.7 L
|
18.98
|
42.32
|
41.36
|
37.80
|
31.69
|
26.63
|
22.70
|
20.99
|
Raspberry brandy Kopaonik 0.7 L
|
56.94
|
80.69
|
79.41
|
75.55
|
68.52
|
64.99
|
60.45
|
58.43
|
It means that eg. Plum
Brandy Slivovitz Memory-Uspomena costs 13.78€ in Croatia. The same slivovitz
would cost €37.97 if imported into Sweden and paid Swedish excise duty and VAT.
Uspomena would be 26.84€ in the UK, so you can buy two bottles in Croatia at
the price of a single bottle in the UK.
The differences become
even higher if compared on a box of 6 bottles. Eg. if you buy a box of 6
bottles Slivovitz Plum Brandy Uspomena-Memory in Croatia, it costs 82.68€, in
Sweden it would cost almost triple- 227.85€, in the UK it would be almost
double- €161.06, or €78.38 more than in Croatia. Please see the table of 6
bottles boxes below.
|
Prices in EUR
– Box Of 6 Bottles
|
|
Croatia
|
Sweden
|
Finland
|
Ireland
|
United
Kingdom
|
Denmark
|
Poland
|
Italy
|
6 x Sokolica Slivovitz Stara Sokolova 1 L
|
104.64
|
315.50
|
307.30
|
275.86
|
222.41
|
174.27
|
139.91
|
125.08
|
6 x Manastirska Slivovitz Simex 1 L
|
77.76
|
310.56
|
301.32
|
264.41
|
202.34
|
142.43
|
102.56
|
85.42
|
6 x Rubin vinjak 1 L
|
95.94
|
281.30
|
273.64
|
243.85
|
193.41
|
146.79
|
114.38
|
100.40
|
6 x Plum Brandy Uspomena 0.7 L
|
82.68
|
227.85
|
221.96
|
199.41
|
161.06
|
126.63
|
101.98
|
91.34
|
6 x Plum Brandy Old Oak 0.7 L
|
95.16
|
236.51
|
230.83
|
209.66
|
173.40
|
142.35
|
119.03
|
108.93
|
6 x Plum Brandy Kovilj Monastery 0.7 L
|
113.04
|
271.72
|
265.76
|
244.31
|
207.20
|
177.57
|
153.68
|
143.30
|
6 x Quince Brandy Golden Valley 0.7 L
|
127.62
|
277.91
|
271.71
|
249.25
|
210.46
|
179.05
|
154.08
|
143.24
|
6 x Quince Brandy Crown Exclusive 0.7 L
|
173.40
|
326.85
|
320.17
|
296.83
|
256.10
|
225.63
|
199.40
|
187.96
|
6 x Williams Pear Brandy Perun 0.7 L
|
113.88
|
253.94
|
248.13
|
226.82
|
190.14
|
159.79
|
136.19
|
125.95
|
6 x Raspberry brandy Kopaonik 0.7 L
|
341.64
|
484.12
|
476.47
|
453.31
|
411.11
|
389.97
|
362.68
|
350.60
|
3.
Our German
Shop
Apart from Croatia, we
have the same warehouse in Germany and the products and the prices can be found
at https://www.tastebrandy.de. The German shop is dedicated to German
customers and so far it cannot deliver the brandy out of Germany.
Should you buy at our
German or Croatian shop? This dillema exists only for our customers in Germany.
They can choose either to place their orders at tastebrandy.de or at the
Croatian tastebrandy.com.
If they place their
orders at tastebrandy.de, the parcel arrives the second working day via DHL and
it costs €4.95. If they order at tastebrandy.com, they can expect their parcels
in a week time and the delivery prices are a bit higher. But the shipping speed
and price is not the only moment that should be taken into consideration. We
strive to have richer offer at our Croatian shop tastebrandy.com
If you decide to order both on tastebrandy.com
and tastebrandy.de, you’d have to register twice and have two different
accounts. The customer service is unique and we can help you with your choice
both at tastebrandy.de and tastebrandy.com.
The customers that
come out of Germany are strongly advised to shop only at tastebrandy.com.