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Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the toy-story dept.

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."

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  1. Err ... by hattig · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.


    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.
  2. Re:Dear sirs, by PhilHibbs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hadn't heard of Nerdorama. I find this story to be interesting. It's news, it's for nerds, what's your problem?

  3. OMFG Slashvertised again by spoonyfork · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Could the submitters or editors at least try to make it look like news? Perhaps a bloggers review of the site or a comparative analysis of nerd shopping sites? This and the press release ad for the rugged PDA article a couple hours ago make me no likey Slashdot.

    If I wanted a content-free website of ads there are already plenty to choose from.

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  4. Not Fair! by big+ben+bullet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Dear sirs, by spoonyfork · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am fed up with the slashvertisements so I've added slashvertisement to the wikipedia. Now it is named.

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  6. Re:Dear sirs, by danimrich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they considered it an advertisement they wouldn't post it because they're affiliated with Thinkgeek.

    If you were in Europe you'd think differently about that. Thinkgeek charges quite a lot for shipping to Europe and you have to worry whether your stuff gets stuck in customs or not. Plus, import taxes are about 20 per cent.

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  7. Re:Purpose by attam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    wtf is everyone's problem? did you all bitch and moan when there was a front page story about (for example) Microsoft Music Store? sheesh, it's something new, and i am sure there are plenty of people who are glad they got a heads up about it. go on about your business now.