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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.
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
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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.
If I wanted a content-free website of ads there are already plenty to choose from.
Speak truth to power.
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.
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.
Good old Slashdot: Comment #10374410 whines that this article is nothing but an attempt for the website owner to increase their business, while comment #10374620 whines that it's nothing but an attempt by the competitor to put the website out of business. And both comments get modded up.
Actually, it's not "good old" Slashdot at all. This is the new shitty Slashdot. Shitty stories, shitty comments, shitty moderators.
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.
Yeah, if Kasper was astroturfing he should have at least posted with some random-Joe sounding name like the rest of the slashvertisers instead of using his own name to promote his website. We should all boo and hiss now at this terrible act of honesty!