First of all here in Denmark the shipping company would take their 23 USD handling fee, so often so to say you are charged 2 X for shipping.
It is not like the shipping company are handling the customs part on behalf of the gooberment, og no that is a whole other weeks long thing most often, and in this as we say the one hand have no clue what the other hand is doing.
Then as a Dane you are slapped with the 25 % sales tax,,,,,,, and then come customs which on its own are most often not bad
So the nice thing you have gotten in the US, well if things go right you get to pay 25 - 30 % extra for that thing
The minimum value here is not even 10 % of what it is in the US, so something still fairly cheap but just over, and BAM you are paying over 2 X the price due to the handling fee.
800 USD,,,,,,, OMG i would kill for something like that.
PS: Other times, due to the omnipresent incompetence in all government branches, things sail right thru customs, even big substantial things.
Like i have gotten for 0 extra cost a HUGE not cheap PTZ CCTV camera, that i am sure would have earned various companies and public branches 100 - 200 USD to fight over among them self.
When things like that happen,,,,,, funny enough i do not feel lucky, it more like feed my wrath.