HI, @Hymer
What is the problem with the base stations? Have you or your brother tried to contact HTC already? If you could PM me the support ticket number I can try to get this moved along a bit! Sorry for your bad experience
Idag till den 28 december finns erbjudanden på Vive från https://www.vive.com/eu/, spara 100 Euro och har fri frakt också. Kann också finns erbjudanden på Elgiganten men låga lager, tror jag.
If you want to test it ElGiganten has trial machines most of the time. My local one in Karlstad had a space reserved for this, I imagine it is like this in all the reasonably sized ElGiganten stores in Sweden http://www.elgiganten.se/cms/htc-vive-virtual-reality/htc-viv....
Gothenburg has a VR arcade that has Vive but it costs to use those here. http://turnaroundvr.se/
Hope this helps you make a decision, and apologies for writing in English, if I tried Swedish I would make little sense and it would take ages to write the message!
Om du missade erbjudande från butikerna i Sverige (på Vive), så kan du fortfarande hitta Vive erbjudande@ http://www.vive.com/eu/ €100 rabatt och gratis frakt.