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."

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i got an idea....

[LiquidMind]

for a nerd shirt design...

"would you like to geek out with me?"

You pay taxes

[heikkile]

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

Re:You pay taxes

[frostman]

Interesting point about VAT. In Hungary it's also 25%, though people have a lot less discretionary income.

However, in Germany it's 16% -- so the next time I buy a computer in Hungary I'm going to look very carefully at the prices in Germany and consider just having it shipped down.

Part of the reason they can get away with the 25% in Hungary is that so many people have small companies. Income tax also being ridiculously high, most people who have the option have some sort of company and use some measure of creative accounting to reduce that bill.

In Hungary prices for things like computers are generally listed without VAT (netto), partly because this makes them look cheaper and partly because a lot of people cycle the VAT through their companies, since most services (what the small companies are billing for) are also subject to VAT. The government still gets its VAT money but the burden is redistributed, with the net effect that the government loses out on a lot of payroll and income tax.

The Best T-Shirt

[dan_sdot]

Maybe they will have the best t-shirt I ever have seen that they stopped carrying on ThinkGeek from some reason. It just said:

rm -rf /bin/laden

My friend had one that he got on ThinkGeek, but by the time I went to the site to buy one, they didn't have it anymore! I want one!!

Re:The Best T-Shirt

[maxwell demon]

The following is more effective:

find / -group alquaida -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
delgroup alquaida

BTW, note that you cannot execute /bin/laden due to permission 666.

Re:We've killed Nerdorama

[thomasdn]

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
Translation:
Database problem! We are very sorry, but right now our is struggling to keep up on serving the many requests. Thank you for visiting. We hope that you will visit later.
Kind regards
Nerdorama

In the EU you almost always pay sales TAX

[SpaghettiPattern]

buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries

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 .ch). So sometimes you wind up being taxed twice and not wanting to go through the pain to get your own money back.

I have a .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.

Europeans! Don't let the sales taxes bring you down and don't wind up screwed!

Re:Dear sirs,

[secolactico]

From Wikipedia:

This page is a candidate for speedy deletion.

Looks like Wikipedia sysops might not have a sense of humor.

Or maybe if you had elucidated a bit more, such as posting examples or such.

Mod Parent Up.

[mekkab]

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.

And frankly, /. should be getting a cut.

Re:blah

[I confirm I'm not a]

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.

Re:great slashvertisement

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I'll put $50 bucks down that this outfit is linked with OSTG/THink Geek/Slashdot.

Probibly not, as it seems that the Nerdorama folks are running their server on a dial-up line from a basement someplace.

But seriously, if they expect to any amount of business at all, they need to get a dedicated server. The one they are on has 37 domains on it.