Hi,

I'm contemplating buying a laptop from a UK online retailer who ships to europe.As VAT will be paid on it at source will I be liable for IVA or taxation on it arriving in Spain or should it be free to ship within the EU.

Thanks for any help

You will be lucky to find one that ships to Spain!

If your reason for buying the laptop in the UK is to get one with an English set-up, then I know that you can get one from Dell here in Spain with everything in English. I believe that you can also phone Dell here and get an English speaker.

I've bought an English laptop in England and brought it over, without thinking of the VAT because I had already paid it in the UK. It's different if you're buying from outside the EU.

your payying the vat in the uk so wont be ask again to pay IVA again in spain
you with in side off EU zone .

But that means you end up with a Dell!

Hi Tim,

No I found one quite easily, cclonline, however I'm a bit worried about the spanish postal system in case it "dissapears" @ £1300 would be devastating even with insurance.

It's a specific brand MSI so I cant really go to DELL, unless i went for the alienware in which case I'd have to sell the house

Think I might just pickup from the UK and take over

Thanks anyway

Best option!

I know, I must be a sad person, I'm waiting to buy a new deskop as my HD is nearing the end of its life and I'm going to get a Dell with Windows 7, and I'm getting quite excited about it!

Good choice and as you say, you can get it with UK software and keyboard.

Also worth considering are their extended warranties which are actually good value - but on the other hand, from my experience of over 20 Dell PCs, they rarely have problems.

And what exactly is wrong with that?

You have an English keyboard?

I best explain, I personally feel it best to have €+ñ+Ç+¿+ó etc than a pound sign!

Our last machines were Dells and lasted 10 years, one is still being used as a Linux machine but now we have UPI machines. Not quite so good as Dells.

With Dell you can specify an English or Spanish keyboard.

That's what I like about Dell, you can practically have them build a computer for you to your own specifications. I'm keen on the Windows 7 Ultimate version, at a high price, of course, but being able to change the language is a big plus for me, but I could have a Linux Distro on a seperate parition in Spanish, couldn't I? And keyboards are so cheap nowadays, you can plug in a different one in an instant, even with a laptop.

There is a free program that lets you change to any language.
I changed my Spanish to English, but changed back again cos Vista in Spanish keeps me awake.

What it that then?..I would like to change my English windows to Spanish to practice.
Our Linux machine is used for customers and you can set up a login to use different langugaes.