Quote Originally Posted by PetiteMalFleur View Post
I live in the US, which doesn't have VAT, but if the game is being imported from Europe doesn't it still have the VAT imposed on the the distributors buying it? For example, if gamestop EU stocks the game and sells it to their subsidiary company in Australia wouldn't they have to pay the VAT?

I guess I'm just as baffled as you are if the price should drop that much when sold in your region.
To my knowledge, as long as you are sending outside the EU then the VAT isn't added, and its up to the destination country if you have to pay their tax on arrival for imports. In NZ, if its less than $500 (I think) you don't, so technically it'd be even cheaper than I made out before to import from the EU or the US down here though you'd still want to declare something as big as the physical CE and they may quibble... it does look pretty impressive :P