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Only dealerships and anyone with a few bucks to spend on Aliexpress once someone bothers making a removal tool.

Yes, that's why I love AliExpress. It evens the playing fieldin such cases, to some degree.

If in Europe, they're going to "fix" that with a €3 flat fee per item to cover "import duty" under €150 in July (on top of VAT which is already charged since 2021).

Which a huge scam, because there's no way that an average €10 Euro widget has a 30% tariff on it, and I'm pretty sure that very many things things are 0%.

3 euro is actually reasonable just to even out the delivery costs - it is usually cheaper to post something from China than it is intra-EU, because of the international postal union rules.

As you're doing the importing not them, that also gets them around ton of legal compliance costs as well.

Or flathead screwdriver

And a dremel with a cutter wheel. Your answer is silly without that.

Please don’t act like this

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