The real cost of buying abroad, measured

The price a shop shows is not what you pay. Here is how much shipping, import duty and VAT add to it, depending on where the seller is and where the parcel is delivered. Figures are medians over the offers with a certain total that Crossave found in the last 30 days (updated 12 Nov 2026).

Delivered to Italy

How it is measured

• Each row is the median, over the offers counted, of (shipping + duty and VAT) ÷ listed price. Medians, not averages: €5 shipping on a €1 item is 500%, and would drag an average.
• The three columns are three separate medians: the last two do not always add up to the first.
• Only offers whose total is certain: known shipping and duty computed with the official rules of the delivery country. Offers with a minimum total, lots, and prices flagged as suspicious are left out.
• “n/a” when a seller country has fewer than 30 offers or fewer than 3 different products: with so few, one shop decides the number.
• Limit: the sample is the searches made on Crossave (by people, and when our product pages are refreshed), not all online shopping. Collectibles weigh more than in the market at large.

Quoting these figures: you may quote them citing Crossave as the source, with a link to this page. Only aggregated medians are published here; detailed data (product by product, shop by shop) is not free: Crossave data for businesses.

For your own product: the import duty calculator or a search on Crossave. Rules by country: how we calculate.