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Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs
kasperh writes "After 10 months the Danish geekshop Nerdorama.com is now doing business across Europe. Nerdorama sells t-shirts, gadgets and a lot of other geek things for nerds within the EU.
Now European nerds can buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries."
I too would like a featured advertisement on this "web-site". Please could you fax me your rates so I can decide what type of story would be best for me.
There aren't any comments on the story yet, and the site is already totally slashdotted, oh well!
Al.The Daily ACK - Eclectic posts by yet another hacker
That this is posted when they are all asleep.
I'll put $50 bucks down that this outfit is linked with OSTG/THink Geek/Slashdot.
don't bother trying to look at the picture contest:
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 9
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 10
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in
Database problem! Vi beklager meget, men lige nu kæmper vores server med at følge med de mange forspørgsler. Tak for opmærksomheden. Vi håber at du vil besøge siden senere.
Med venlig hilsen,
Nerdorama
Database problem! Vi beklager meget, men lige nu kæmper vores server med at følge med de mange forspørgsler. Tak for opmærksomheden. Vi håber at du vil besøge siden senere.
And instantly I thought of the start of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Why are stories on slashdot always so Euro Centric? What about us poor US geeks? We get almost no coverage here on slashdot. :(
Med venlig hilsen,
Nerdorama
That just can't be good.
This must be a new record...
This is your baptismal slashdotting.
Technoli
Depriving European geeks of cool stuff since 2004.
For one of the fastest slashdottings ever!
That's gotta hurt!
Don't pick up the pho*(@)$*@&@!@ NO CARRIER
for a nerd shirt design...
"would you like to geek out with me?"
This sig contains repetition and redundancy.
mmm... the load crushed them.
slashdot did it again
Of course you pay taxes when you buy inside EU. Actually, Denmark has one of the highest VATs in the world, at 25%. But you only pay taxes once, probably by the rate in the receiving country, and the seller will have to collect those taxes, so there is much less hazzle about paying them... And no customs or duties, and again no paperwork to clear those
In Murphy We Turst
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Is this truely a story or is it advertising?
/. editors disclose any ownership with this company (if any)?
What a good deal for this company. Thanks Slashdot for all the free advertising. Shouldn't the
B O R I N G
And who calls /. US centric? Here's some info on being a good consumer but the politics watch out don't want to know what's going on in that area.
Err, if the company is still based in the EU then they will have to pay VAT of the rate of the country that the company is based in.
If you buy from outside the EU then you are liable for import duty except for items below a certain value (£25 for UK I think). This is why so many DVD/CD stores are based in Jersey now.
I think I got tha right. I think that the topic should be about avoiding import taxes, not taxes. Anyway, it is just a big advertisement.
My country is in Europe, but not in European Union - taxes still apply.
An all nerd-based soap opera would really be news, but this is just some ad.
Mein lieben!
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(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Thanks anyway /. - as much as I love ThinkGeek's stuff, the import duties here in the UK are an absolute killer. Between shipping and duty (and then even duty on the shipping!) stuff costs more than twice as much as it does for you US types.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Google's cache of the frontpage - nothing special to look at
I wonder if they sell any books on how to do that :)
.com is not for the US, .us is.
Besides the general "Help, I've been slashdotted!" meaning, I didn't follow this after "database problem" and babelfish isn't coming through for me like it usually does. :)
Database problem! Vi beklager meget, men lige nu kæmper vores server med at følge med de mange forspørgsler. Tak for opmærksomheden. Vi håber at du vil besøge siden senere.
Med venlig hilsen,
Nerdorama
...bandwidth usage increase...
...that a site for (presumably by) nerds has so little hair on its chest that it's slashdotted within 30 seconds after posting. Wannabe nerds, methinks.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
We broke their server and now we can bitch about it and make fun of them!
If I wanted a content-free website of ads there are already plenty to choose from.
Speak truth to power.
Database problem! We're very sorry, but right now our server is struggling to keep up with the many requests. Thanks for the attention. We hope wou will visit the page later.
sj 3
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Well, at least they WERE a hot place to buy all your geeky goodies in the EU, until Slashdot burnt their ephemeral store down...
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 9
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
Database problem! Vi are seeink wery beeg traffik und der blinken lights are not blinken no more.
"Our funds have never taken part in toxic or death spiral convertible financings of any sort" -BayStar's managing partne
These are the exceptions that the slashdoting caused:
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 9
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/nerdorama.com/httpdocs/ include/db.php on line 10
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in
Passes out the tin-foil hats.
Hmm...could this be an intentional "Slashdotting" of a competitor to Thinkgeek.com? This is a very effective legal DDOS attack on the e-commerce site of a competitor of a company owned by the same people that run Slashdot.
Let alone those 4eign bastards who took the "4"!
Item #69: The Consultant. Cotton T with the following text: "We were paid to scale this website, but all we did is buy these lousy T-Shirts."
What? Like it's OK when they did it for ThinGeek, but now that they also feature a European geekstore it's solely an advertisement and suddenly not that interesting anymore.
I'm very pleased to find out about that store this way. This is news for nerds, and stuff that matters. Maybe not that interesting for american nerds, for sure, but it is for me and probably a whole bunch of other slashdot users.
And I think those guys are probably even proud to be slashdotted. Just as the guys at thinkgeek were.
Databasproblem! Vi beklagar så mycket, men just nu så kämpar våra servrar med att svara de många förfrågningarna. Tack för uppmärksamheten. Vi hoppas att du vill besöka sidan senare.
Med vänlig hälsning,
Nerorama
Not only are they a "geek" store, but their post code is 2600.
I need something like this - buying something from thinkgeek would double the cost for me (living the the UK). I think this is very worthy news - much more than some product announcements that appear, and probably woulddn't have found out about the site if it wasn't for this article.
I tried clicking on this ad, but apparently it's in some new format that Adblock doesn't recognize! :-P
Guerilla market Slashdot? No way!
Maybe I need to pay Roland Piquelle to promote my site. Will some karma or some flames do?
-Electrawn
And thanks to the US, .eu is not yet available.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Its not yours, its not anyones.
.org, .net) They may eventually even sell to the rest of the world as well.
.co.uk domain and sell away, but if you're going to sell in multiple territories then are you really going to setup an inidvidual local site for every one of them and at the same time leave the .com variant alone?
The purpose of the localised domain structure is so that you can have local sites. This company has probably since its inception had the intention of selling throughout the EU, hence their choice to go with one of the 3 main standard TLDs (.com,
Had they gone for a Danish domain name, do you really think they would have received as much business in the rest of europe/the world?
If you ever plan on say selling products in the UK and only the UK, then feel free to register a
No.
buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries
.ch). So
sometimes you wind up being taxed twice and not wanting to go through the pain
to get your own money back.
.ch plated car for which I don't need to pay IVA for service in Italy.
How many times have I explained this to the garages I went to?! And these
garages are not even aware of the fact that they actually gain a new happy
client.
Trust me, in the EU you always pay sales tax/VAT/MWST/IVA/BTW (whatever you cal lit) in the country you order your product. Geek goods will almost always be taxed at a rate varying between 14 and 20%.
And then there are sooo many shops out there that don't care to go through the hassle of not charging taxes for countries outside the EU (like
I have a
Europeans! Don't let the sales taxes bring you down and don't wind up screwed!
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
It is also popular on spain, this site ropafriki. It have all the thinkgeek T-shirts with spanish slogans. And without taxes, only the burocratic process of the aduane cost 50, and then the European taxes, and then the bordes taxes. I bought http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6806/ and they tax me with the "wool" tax. it more tha douvble the prize.
Who are "we"? Commercial companies?
.com: Commercial
.net: Networks
.org: Organizations
.info: Information
.biz: Business
...etc.
Except bandwidth, or is it processing power...whatever allowed the 0.2 second /.ing, count that out.
Agreed, despite all the others bitching about "slashvertising" and "competition" and "how much do I have to pay to get my site advertised on here" and stuff.
Like another poster said, "it's news, it's for nerds, what's your problem?"
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The trouble with pedants is that they're always right.
You are 100% wrong and 2 seconds of googling could have solved your problems. .UA = Ukraine .US = USA
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
This slashdot article paid for by thinkgeek.
Coffee mug: 10
T Shirt: 15
Mouse pad: 5
Slashdotting the site: Priceless
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Although their website is completely unreachable ...
.. ./ a poor European link ... which of still reminds me; why is bandwidth much cheaper in the US than the EU?
What have you done America
Guess I can check out the shop in about 96hrs right ?
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If .us is for the US, shouldn't all those .gov and .mil and .edu domains be under .us?
It's not like Whitehouse.gov is the seat of the global government.. or is it?
How should we know? So, why do you care?
Yes, this is pure advertising. Submitter's login: kasperh. If you Google "Kasper" + "Nerdorama", you find the phrase: "Nerdorama was founded as a one person company by Kasper Hartwich". Ouch, that is ugly. And coincidentally I recognized the name, as he used to be (Still is?) in the Amiga scene group I was/is a member of. Hi Bakerman, your tricks are dirty, but I blame the editors rather than you.
Luv, allanon.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
The message should read: Server børked
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
I think we ate up enough bandwidth that the store usually consumed in a month. :-p
Thats losses for a months worth of nerdyware.At least make sure your site has enough bandwidth before posting on slashdot OR use one of those caching things
Lord of the Binges.
Its not that I am particularly outraged by the blatant self-aggrandizment, (I'm an American, we actually look quite favorably on it) its more that I want to remove any doubt from everyone's mind about what this is.
/. should be getting a cut.
And frankly,
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I'm just pissed off that when I do, it gets Slashdotted. And to think, it was so near to payday, too :(
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"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything that I thought it could be."
If .us is for the US, shouldn't all those .gov and .mil and .edu domains be under .us?
Optional. The UK's Labour Party use labour.org.uk because they're a unionist (pro-United Kingdom) party; the Scottish National party use snp.org, because they're anti-union/pro-independance and consequently don't wish to be seen as a UK party.
I'd guess Tony Blair could register number10.gov quite easily, but he [1] chooses not to. By the same token the US might (I have no idea) have some agency that wishes to be associated more with .us than .gov. Any conclusions drawn by the predominance of .gov and .mil TLDs within Washington DC is left as a exercise to the historically minded (or the tinfoil-hatters).
[1] Or some faceless Whitehall mandarin.
This is where the serious fun begins.
The parent poster has been sacked and replaced with trained llamas.
I, Joe Collins of Nashville, TN, always pay my taxes.
wtf.. there was a shitload of posts before it was /.ed... you wanker
http://europa.eu.int/pol/tax/index_en.htm
This is called "protectionism". The best way to inflate prices for the customer at the same time as lowering overall quality. It's unfortunate that *all* countries/governments do it.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
Jersey isn't in the EU.
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I live in Denmark and when the Postperson brings me stuff I have ordered from outside the EU he wants money.
Plank.
threadeds blog
"Nerdorama sells t-shirts, gadgets and a lot of other geek things for nerds within the EU."
Actually Nerdorama is a pretty cool store - they had a booth on the danish convention LinuxForum 2004 in spring this year...
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I spent some time there, and the owner is really cool to talk to and likes to play around...
A picture of their booth:
http://linuxforum.dk/2004/pix/chlor/r0018
(It's me standing in the LinuxForum 2004 t-shirt)
Morten
something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
It
was
not
that
funny.
Slashdotting the site: Priceless
If it is actually a slashvertisement as some would have you believe, it did cost them to turn their site into a smoldering pile of rubble . . .
buying stuff from the US is often the cheaper option
Denmark small? I'd say! In Norway, we have this little game called "how fast can you drive through Denmark"? The starting point is a small town called Hirtshals, with the goal being the German border. On a sunny day with little wind and a radar, the average is 4 hours. My personal best is circa 3 hours, in a Volvo 242 Turbo.
Actually, come to think of it, Denmark is way more fun and challenging than the Autobahn, given the fact that the race is a lot harder in the land of drowsy beer drinkers, considering the police, the many small towns in between and the variable condition of the highway(parts of it are made with concrete!).
Favourite music while driving: Motorhead "1916". Go figure...
"The only clear view is from atop the mountain of our dead selves." - Peter Carroll
I bought this http://www.nerdorama.com/showproduct.php?ProductID =159 exact item from a dollar tree locally for $1 it costs 16+pounds online!!!! I should be able to get 2-3 for $1 online.
We are sorry you can't reach us at the moment, but due to heavy traffic because of a slashdot post, our server is having some problems. We are working hard to fix this and hope you will visit us again soon.
Europe, still kickin ASS after all these decades.
A little out of topic here,
How does one go around tracing the number of domains using a particular server as vhost?
I got the info here: http://www.whois.sc/nerdorama.com How it works, I don't know.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
shit
they're expensive
Pocket Blow Torch 52 Eur. | similar item bought in german electronic store (like frys) 5 Eur.
i preffer http://www.getdigital.de/index/start/lng/2
Ha, we have a similar one when getting off the ferry at Ostend: You have to remember the name of six famous Belgians in the time it takes to drive through Belgium.
;-)
An Hercule Poirot doesn't count
How much taxes and fees do european people have to pay to buy geeky stuff from Thinkgeek? I've been thinking about that from quite a long time :-S
Neither was your mother, but the way she tickled my balls always made me laugh.