Question 1

Is it cheaper to import electronics than buy them locally?

Accepted Answer

Sometimes, but far less often than the sticker gap suggests. Once you add reshipping, your country's import duty and VAT/GST, the card FX fee and a lost local warranty, most products end up cheaper to buy at home. Across the 84 product-and-country pairs we've priced, only 3 are genuinely worth importing right now. This tool does the all-in math per product for your country.

Question 2

How does the import checker work?

Accepted Answer

Type a product name or paste a store link. We read the local price and currency, match the product to its usual US price, then compute the true landed cost — reshipping by weight, your country's duty and import tax, today's exchange rate — and compare it to the local price, factoring whether the manufacturer honors the warranty on a self-import.

Question 3

Which countries does the import calculator cover?

Accepted Answer

United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam. More on the way.

Question 4

Does it work for products you don't already track?

Accepted Answer

Yes. If a product isn't in our catalog, the tool looks up a live US price, and if it can't, you type the US and local prices yourself — so it works for any product from any store, even ones that block automated reads.

What does it really cost — and where's it cheapest?

How it works

Countries covered