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All ze German shops do this, maybe others too. The price difference reflects the different VAT rates in the delivery countries, 19% in Germany, 20% in UK and 23% in Ireland. Probably some stupid EU initiative to undermine the so-called single market.
Edit: Try making sense of this http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/vat_on_services/index_en.htm
It seems that every country can set it's own threshold above which a distance seller has to charge the VAT rate of the destination country, so shops which don't do much international business will be able to charge the shop's local VAT rate, but the big operators have to charge the customer's local rate.