I get a lot of emails regarding the super high shipping charges and import taxes. I wish I could lower the prices on those kinds of things but I just can’t.
I am based in the US and a good 1/3 of my customers are from EU. Therefore, it makes sense to have either an EU group buy or better, a vendor for my stuff. That “stuff” is soon to be more than motor mounts. My hangers are weeks away from being ready for sale!
The problem is not the $15 mount & shipping, it’s the atypical 2 x mounts, sundries & shipping, once that hits about €45 or thereabouts, blammo: import duties, pushing the delivered price up to €65-€70.
Be like China: mark the contents as €15 value, send via the cheapest padded baggie post you can and keep the receipt for proof. We all pay for China’s cheap post even if we don’t benefit
Very few parcels go missing in reality; once the address is correct, the recipient doesn’t live in a shared mail dwelling, they aren’t a con artist. Yeah you’ll get burnt once in a while by the above but you could make it a recipient choice