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Re: Tax refund when buying from French online store?

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I plan to buy some electronics in Darty online store. They don't deliver to Geneva, but I have friends who live not far away from the border in France, so I am thinking of arranging the delivery there.
The reason why I am doing it this way is because Darty seems to have all I need in "one place" and it is cheaper than in Geneva. I could have gone to the store itself, which is in Annemasse, but they don't deliver from there to geneva either, so I decided to do it online.

My question is - can you get a tax refund on the border if you buy things from French online store and they deliver it to France?

Anybody had any problems with Darty?

Thanks.
Any VAT refund has to be initiated by the seller at the point of sale in the form of a completed signed and stamped form that you hand in at the border. The refund comes weeks later less commission for the handling company.

However, if their online store was set up correctly they a would charge the French VAT rate to all sales in the EU and zero outside the EU...
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