Originally Posted by 2_i
I do not recall any examples of Scandinavian sites with English versions. I can make myself understand an article in a Swedish newspaper but cannot resolve bike component names and won't engage in a financial transaction in Swedish. Finnish, sorry, is out. The only one Italian site I recall, that shipped to the US, charged something in the vicinity of EUR 50 S/H minimum. France, yes, there are two vendors, one being of course the very useful xxcycle.
I think we might have a missunderstanding at our hands here. I listed countries where shipping to USA is much more expensive than from Germany - and you apparently took me to mean the opposite.