It was USD $228.00 and Welmoed was great. Swapping out the drive took me maybe 15 minutes start to finish.

Thanks. I feel like I should get one just as a spare.

What was your final price including shipping?

I noticed the price on the website was 145 euros for the part itself.

I looked up UPS and FedEx shipping costs

Over $100 to ship...

EDIT:

Looks like the Dutch place charges 18 euros for shipping but also charges VAT - which I thought does not apply to sales outside of the EU. Total cost 163 euros or US $238.

Also found a German company that sells the same part for 119 euros.

http://www.n-tronics.com/english/ele...laserunits.php

Americans have a strange desire to courier items everywhere. Outside of the USA, courier is expensive, and postage via the post office is cheap and reliable.

Try good old fashioned simple airmail. That's all I ever used for parcels from Europe to New Zealand and it worked fine. And cheap.