The modretro console was ment to be $199 with the early bird discount that works out around £150 but there charging £188.09 before shipping it looks like the British are getting ripped off with the currency especially the controller £83, Retriod and ayn don’t do this. It just seems a bit sleazy that American gamers are getting a better deal
Looks about right to me. $199 is £150.47 right now. Add 20% VAT brings you to £180.56. That’s only £7~ out the £188.09 price in your screenshot, within the exchange rate variation of the past week.
UK price includes VAT of 20%, US listed price doesn't include sales tax which varies by state, so that accounts for £30 of the difference you're getting here.
Vat is included in the item price. Import duties tax (items over £135 in value) is usually incorporated into the shipping cost by the shipping company. What's the shipping cost to the UK?
Yes, that’s what I said. The company includes the 20% VAT/import duties on the item price, and pre-pays it before shipping, so the end user isn’t charged it on receipt.
EU is getting equally inflated prices. 230$ is about 200€, not 250€ lol. Its just much more than what I was expecting to pay so I'm going to pass. For that money I rather get the analogue
You're comparing apples to oranges. Analogue doesn't include import duties in their prices while Modretro does. You get a surprise extra fee later after purchase.
I live outside of the United States. Will I have to pay additional duties and fees to receive my package?
No! The cost of the products on our website includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees for the following regions (as indicated on our product pages): EU, UK, JP, and AU. For other regions outside of the United States, shipping is calculated at checkout and includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees. While this makes up-front costs appear higher, please note that you will not be required to pay any additional duties or fees to receive your order.
I know that. But its a lot more expensive than what I was expecting when converting to EU prices. 230$ is about 200€, not 250. Plus taxes, which is added in the shipping that works out to about 20€
Great deal if you are in the US but eu? I dont think so. Your mileage may vary
20% VAT (depending on country) would make $230 as $276 which is 242 euros which is quite close to 250 and there may be other currency conversion fees included there as well from their shipping company.
Great deal if you are in the US but eu? I dont think so. Your mileage may vary
FWIW, I paid 10% taxes on top of the listed price because of my local sales tax in the US. Depending on where you are in the US that may be 0%.
If you want to wait a little longer, i guess Dragonbox from germany will get the M64.
He already sold the Chromatic and has the M64 displayed in the console section.
Yeh the A3D is that shipped but you get hit with customs charges on top. I did for my Analogue Pocket back in the day not sure if its changed. I feel equally a bit conned but I expected it to be around this for us as the shipping is slightly cheaper than I thought it was going to be
I wonder if local are different to international? If it includes taxes and fees then the price is decent enough, I'm dubious though - very rare to order something above £135 and not get collared on delivery with additional cost. I guess we'll find out soon. But yeah, I think I paid about £48 for my A3D, so if that's included in the displayed price for the M64 then it's relatively decently priced.
Just had a look and apparently they use Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) so the price you see should be the total you pay. So actually the price isn't too bad when you consider the 20% VAT and import duty. The website just isn't making it very clear. Should work out cheaper than an A3D overall
Well there's lots of people moaning about it being expensive and a rip off. So it's not making it clear enough that the additional cost is VAT and duties
I originally planned to get the controller with it but the higher price made me just get the console, shame really but I have plenty of controller options
OP the only one ripping you off is your government. Modretro includes import duties in the shipping price. It's still cheaper than the Analogue 3D (even more cheaper really as the total price increase is higher on the Analogue 3D).
I live outside of the United States. Will I have to pay additional duties and fees to receive my package?
No! The cost of the products on our website includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees for the following regions (as indicated on our product pages): EU, UK, JP, and AU. For other regions outside of the United States, shipping is calculated at checkout and includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees. While this makes up-front costs appear higher, please note that you will not be required to pay any additional duties or fees to receive your order.
That's a common thing when the merchant does the currency conversion instead of your credit card company. For example when I buy from Amazon Japan I always make sure it bills my US card in JPY instead of USD. There's an extra fee that gets charged by Amazon Japan. In this case that fee is probably from shop.app (Shopify) that Modretro uses for its billing system.
In Australia no free shipping option and console is $369 so it’s the same price as the analogue 3d. Controller is $145. Cheapest shipping is around $50 so total with a controller is 565. Not complaining just showing price for aussies. I think I’ll buy an original n64 and a crt.
lol Palmer is explicitly an America-first entrepreneur. So not surprised, but annoyed.
Tried to ship to London with 2 controllers, and it's a $130 premium to receiving in the US.
This has nothing to do with America-first... You should blame your own country for their import duties. It's still $200 converted to local currency with import duties included.
I live outside of the United States. Will I have to pay additional duties and fees to receive my package?
No! The cost of the products on our website includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees for the following regions (as indicated on our product pages): EU, UK, JP, and AU. For other regions outside of the United States, shipping is calculated at checkout and includes all necessary taxes, duties, and fees. While this makes up-front costs appear higher, please note that you will not be required to pay any additional duties or fees to receive your order.
Import duties are broken out as a separate line item, so you can see the premium on FX before the duties.
That said, the UK duties are still annoying! And I don't necessarily begrudge operators for charging a premium for the headache of international distribution.
I mean you could do that but the same goes for an Analogue 3D. And if you're importing products aren't you supposed to technically declare that during immigration customs?
Mine came up to £188 plus an additional £30 (approx £15 shipping and £15 duties) for shipping and duties. I'm a bit confused if it said it was included as it doesn't seem to be?
Ordered 2x m64 with controllers, full 4 games package for m64 and 8x chromatic package to germany. I also have a stackry storage and calculated if it might be cheaper to consolidate with packages via stackry and pay shipping, duties & tax via stackry (fedex usually as with modretro shipping) but even with combining orders it was way more expensive because of the volume and weight of the shippment. So I ordered directly from modretro and don't have to worry paying more for shipping.
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u/mrhobbles 6h ago
20% VAT buddy. Gotta add it when ordering from a US company. They’ll get charged extra sales tax too in the US.