If ordering by credit card the billing and shipping address have to match anyway I think so dodging the VAT isn't as easy as it seems.
Is that so? Because as mentioned before I'm planning to visit a friend in the USA and to stay there until ~18. December. If shipping starts like in the first week of December it would be early enough to send the bASIC to him instead to me so I could pick it up and take it back home without having to pay the 19% VAT in Germany.