I agree with some of your comments. However do not understand in the case of Dell who have a Hungarian site!
I feel part of the problem is Europe and particularly the EC (Brussels) with all there rules about collecting VAT. This must make some american merchants question if it is worth doing business on the continent. Recently I was amazed at the number of US businesses that refused to ship a Garmin Etrex unit outside of N America.
Another aspect of this problem is getting country specific items in other countries -i.e. in France try buying a UK or US keyboard.
Another annoyance is the inability to use some country specific web sites in a different language (e.g. ebay.fr in English.
Aspiring ebusinesses I believe need to recognise that the Web is worldwide and also that customers from any one country are likely not to be natives in that country. In my experience expats use the Web to trade as they are often happier with the ability to trade in a non pressured way where any language issues can be minimised (e.g. using Googles language tools).
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I agree with some of your comments. However do not understand in the case of Dell who have a Hungarian site! I feel part of the problem is Europe and particularly the EC (Brussels) with all there rules about collecting VAT. This must make some american merchants question if it is worth doing business on the continent. Recently I was amazed at the number of US businesses that refused to ship a Garmin Etrex unit outside of N America. Another aspect of this problem is getting country specific items in other countries -i.e. in France try buying a UK or US keyboard. Another annoyance is the inability to use some country specific web sites in a different language (e.g. ebay.fr in English. Aspiring ebusinesses I believe need to recognise that the Web is worldwide and also that customers from any one country are likely not to be natives in that country. In my experience expats use the Web to trade as they are often happier with the ability to trade in a non pressured way where any language issues can be minimised (e.g. using Googles language tools).