Buying white goods in Germany to bring to Sweden

I also posted this on another part of this forum but I wasn't sure which one was the right place. Sorry for the double posting.

Hello. I didn't know which part of this website to ask this so I hope I picked the right one.

I live in Sweden and am planning to totally renovate my kitchen this summer. After I priced out the cost of the re-model, as well as purchasing the white goods/appliances here in Sweden, I started to think about going to Germany and buying the appliances there.

I have looked on Pricerunner.de for some items and although the prices are excellent (compared to here), most of the stores appear to be online only shops. That is a problem as I don't have a German address to have the items sent to and cost of delivery to Sweden would outway the savings of buying in Germany.

Could someone post here and list some appliance/white goods chain or independent stores where I could come to Lübeck/Hamburg/Kiel/Rostock areas and buy some these items on the spot?

Ideally, I would love to place and order ahead of time (on the internet or by phone) and then be able to pick up the items at a store but I am not sure if that is possible without having a German address.

Any help would be appreciated.

Try Saturn or Media Markt. They sell white goods – it's not clear if you're also asking about the kitchen furniture.

Of course the prices in a store are always going to be higher than the prices you find online. When you do the maths and factor in the huge additional effort of travelling from Sweden to Germany and back again with a truck, I don't think your scheme is going to work.

Our scheme is not going to work? Do you mean that items cannot be bought and brought back here (is there some transport issue within the EU that I am not aware of?) or did you mean that the savings wouldn't be worth it? If the later, then by our calculations for the kitchen and goods that we want we would save nearly €700 after factoring in the cost of transport, ferry and bensin. We feel that is worth it since we are re-doing the entire kitchen from the ground up.

Thank you for the store suggestions, very helpful!

Fair enough. I thought you meant just the white goods, i.e. fridge-freezer and dishwasher.

This should answer some of your legal issues. Note that the Swedish V.A.T. rate is 25%, and Germany`s is 19%.