Just to defend the shipping here a bit. As someone who does a lot of shipping of commercial products for a living from the US. International shipping is expensive. *sigh*
EliWIt may be expensive, but as someone who orders a lot of stuff over the internet, and from other countries, no other place I shop from is as expensive as Massdrop. The packing is usually nothing spectacular either, cardboard box or jiffy envelope, so you're mostly paying for weight and size, which is completely out of whack most of the time. Massdrop is great for advertising products that I am interested in, but I only ever end up buying from here one out of every five times.