Reply from The Microbrand StoreSep 11, 2019
We're very glad you received your watch quickly. We'll sadly have to forgo the 5th star though, since we don't know of any retailer who pays for an international customer's taxes and import duties in the customer's overseas country for them, be they a large retailer like Amazon, or a watch store like ours or any number of other stores. It's often not even possible to do that, depending on the shipping carrier used and other circumstances, so it's very much the norm for overseas buyers to pay their own local import duties. This is something we make very clear on our site. Even if we could do so, and were able to work out the logistics and percentages for each country we ship to, we'd have to raise the prices of our watches by the highest percentage of tax and import duties a customer would have to pay in any of the countries we ship to, since many of our watches are typically heavily discounted already.
With regard to a new discount on the item you purchased, prices are not fixed and can go up or down. We strive to always have the lowest currently available retail pricing on all of the watches that we carry, (something we're well known for,) and are constantly looking at pricing elsewhere, which sometimes drives us to lower the pricing unexpectedly. Prices can go up too. For example the item you purchased has been listed after you completed your purchase for $20 more than the price you paid so you obtained a better price than if you were shopping today. We do try to take care of our customers. If for example we have a sale and a customer just bought the same watch a day before and asks us, we have in the past happily refunded the difference.
We do very much appreciate your business, and believe that the price you paid was the lowest current retail pricing anywhere at the time. We also think that the watch you purchased is an extremely good value and it's one of our favorites here, so we very much hope that you like it. Please wear it in good health.