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."

Comments

Svee the l0vely M00se!

[gkelman]

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.

EuroCentric

[cain]

Why are stories on slashdot always so Euro Centric? What about us poor US geeks? We get almost no coverage here on slashdot. :(

Hmm Slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

Depriving European geeks of cool stuff since 2004.

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

Err ...

[hattig]

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.

Google Cache

[Plake]

Well, here's the cache'd version from google.

Here.

"Good News Everyone!"

[Trikenstein]

We broke their server and now we can bitch about it and make fun of them!

Hmm....an attack on a competitor?

[C. Mattix]

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.

Not Fair!

[big ben bullet]

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.

Re:slashdotted already

[skodpc]

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.

Re:SQL error!

[ackthpt]

Coffee mug: 10

T Shirt: 15

Mouse pad: 5

Slashdotting the site: Priceless

Advertising, and not even that guerilla

[mkro]

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.