IT-Trade is a wholesaler. If I would try to buy there they just would grin and say no ;D
Okay now I'm starting to understand the issues. A-C Berlin is in fact a factory or manufacturer's strictly retail store correct? When I spoke with Chris he said that it was not a part of A-C, but just used part of the name which I thought was awfully nice on their part at the time. I was thinking they wouldn't mind if I called a company here Aqua-Computer USA ;D
Here in the USA that kind of operation is extremely rare for manufacturer's as we are on a distribution model. In a distribution model manufacturer's usually don't sell retail unless they are disposing of factory seconds or refurbished goods at a major discount.
So A-C Berlin doesn't have a wholesale or export license that allows them to sell products without charging VAT? In the USA anyone can sell products without collecting sales tax, but the license required is on the side of the purchaser. Thus if you are buying for resale you get a resale license from the government taxing entity.
However, we can also sell anything without collecting sales taxes if we ship out of our individual state (i.e. California, Florida, New York, etc.) as we do not have a national sales tax. This also applies to anything we sell outside of the USA or is exported to another country.
So it appears that buying from A-C Berlin is not going to happen for most Americans as we do not want to participate in a VAT that does not directly benefit us. I think that Aqua-Computer itself needs to set itself up to directly sell to USA private citizens and also more importantly to distributors and retailers here. That appears to be the simple solution due to your tax laws.
Perhaps you should make this thread a sticky on the English Support Forum.