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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."
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 is your baptismal slashdotting.
Technoli
Depriving European geeks of cool stuff since 2004.
for a nerd shirt design...
"would you like to geek out with me?"
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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
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.
Well, here's the cache'd version from google.
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I wonder if they sell any books on how to do that :)
.com is not for the US, .us is.
I hadn't heard of Nerdorama. I find this story to be interesting. It's news, it's for nerds, what's your problem?
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.
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.
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.
I am fed up with the slashvertisements so I've added slashvertisement to the wikipedia. Now it is named.
Speak truth to power.
I tried clicking on this ad, but apparently it's in some new format that Adblock doesn't recognize! :-P
And here's the manual translation, since someone mentioned babblefish is down:
Database problem! We are very sorry, but at the moment our server is struggling to keep up with the amount of requests. Thanks for the attention. We hope you will visit the site later.
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.
where's all that Karma?
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.
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
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.
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