Nerdorama for All Your Geeky Needs 213
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."
Dear sirs, (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2, Funny)
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Database problem!
Such is life
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
In both cases.
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
I knew this account would pay off eventually.
1. Register on a fledgeling community discussion site
2. Wait for it to become famous
3. Wait for advertisers to approach you about making posts in favour of their product
4. Profit!
Not Fair! (Score:5, Insightful)
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 [thinkgeek.com] were.
Re:Not Fair! (Score:2)
Re:Not Fair! (Score:3, Funny)
ThinGeek? Is that like WeightWatchers for nerds?
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
Re:Dear sirs, (Score:2)
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Svee the l0vely M00se! (Score:5, Funny)
And instantly I thought of the start of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Re:Svee the l0vely M00se! (Score:2)
Great, this is going to start another vi vs. emacs debate, isn't it?
Replaced with Llamas (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Svee the l0vely M00se! (Score:2)
Oh, and since the site is Danish, all moose/elk jokes are off topic; that's only "funny" when talking about Sweden. You've got to keep them separated. I know it's hard, but it can be done.
EuroCentric (Score:5, Funny)
Re:EuroCentric (Score:2)
(Although the wording of the intro made me think that they are trying to flog their products here to Danes who pop over for the weekend to their relatives in Norway, saving the VAT. Naughty!)
Re:EuroCentric(OT) (Score:2)
An Hercule Poirot doesn't count
We've killed Nerdorama (Score:5, Funny)
Med venlig hilsen,
Nerdorama
That just can't be good.
Re:We've killed Nerdorama (Score:2, Interesting)
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
Slashdotted at 0 posts??? (Score:1, Redundant)
Welcome to the Internet, Nerdorama. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Welcome to the Internet, Nerdorama. (Score:2)
Re:Welcome to the Internet, Nerdorama. (Score:2)
Hmm Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
Give them the Leaden trophy! (Score:3, Funny)
That's gotta hurt!
i got an idea.... (Score:4, Interesting)
"would you like to geek out with me?"
the load, oh the load (Score:1)
slashdot did it again
You pay taxes (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:You pay taxes (Score:2)
I believe (and this is deep evil legal magic, so don't anyone base anything on it) that whether you pay their rate or your rate depends on how much business they do with people in your country. I.e. if they start to sell lots of nerdy stuff to people in, say, the UK, then they will be able to operate as if a UK company and charge UK customers the UK VAT rate.
Re:You pay taxes (Score:5, Informative)
That is simplifying it a bit, most likely they will charge Danish VAT and get it over with. At 25% it is truly shocking, but it still beats importing stuff from the states.
Re:You pay taxes (Score:3, Interesting)
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
Re:You pay taxes (Score:2)
Hi, I live in Germany and the computers (and equipment) seem much more expensive here compared to the US. For instance I looked at a monitor from dell and the same monitor was 520 euro in the US and 740 euro in Germany!! Anyhow, equvalend laptop and desktop versions seem to cost more too. However there is *no* tax on personal impor
Re:You pay taxes (Score:2)
Re:You pay taxes (Score:2)
Thinkgeek (Score:2)
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Purpose (Score:3, Insightful)
What a good deal for this company. Thanks Slashdot for all the free advertising. Shouldn't the
Re:Purpose (Score:4, Insightful)
Err ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Err ... (Score:2)
Damn! At least Shipping will be less (Score:1)
For a second I thought you said Nerdodrama (Score:2, Funny)
Schnell schnell!! (Score:1)
Mein lieben!
Google Cache (Score:5, Informative)
Here. [66.102.7.104]
Yo man, what they to sell? (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, its an advert, but... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Yes, its an advert, but... (Score:2)
And to the topic: I for one don't think this news was one that shouldn't belong
Google (Score:1)
DB conncetion pooling (Score:5, Funny)
DB Connection Pooling clarification (Score:2)
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Re:DB conncetion pooling (Score:4, Funny)
You mean you have to actually RTFM and then test stuff before rolling it out? With more than just one's own web browser?
If only someone had ever written a web load tester that was multithreaded! But since they haven't I guess I'll have to write my own...
The Best T-Shirt (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The Best T-Shirt (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The Best T-Shirt (Score:3, Funny)
BTW, my favorite shirt (which I have) I got from an obscure shop says:
#> grep brains you
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"Good News Everyone!" (Score:5, Funny)
OMFG Slashvertised again (Score:5, Insightful)
If I wanted a content-free website of ads there are already plenty to choose from.
Re:OMFG Slashvertised again (Score:2)
The ecommerce site formerly known as Nerdorama.com (Score:4, Funny)
Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in
Database problem! Vi are seeink wery beeg traffik und der blinken lights are not blinken no more.
Hmm....an attack on a competitor? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Hmm....an attack on a competitor? (Score:2)
Unfortunately once I hit reply I fear you will be at -1 Overrated, and therefore I just wasted my time.
Re:Hmm....an attack on a competitor? (Score:2)
#1 selling Nerdorama T-Shirt (Score:4, Funny)
Adblock! (Score:5, Funny)
I run a nerd retail website too... (Score:2)
Maybe I need to pay Roland Piquelle to promote my site. Will some karma or some flames do?
-Electrawn
In the EU you almost always pay sales TAX (Score:2, Interesting)
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
Spanish site with T-shirts (Score:2, Informative)
Paid (Score:4, Funny)
I am as european, greeting our new overlords ... (Score:2)
What have you done America
Guess I can check out the shop in about 96hrs right ?
Advertising, and not even that guerilla (Score:5, Informative)
Luv, allanon.
Mod Parent Up. (Score:3, Interesting)
And frankly,
Re:Mod Parent Up. (Score:2)
Re:Mod Parent Up. (Score:2)
Thats pretty much the extent of it.
If they at least had the decency to wrap it up in a story, it would be okay. - For example, an online weekly diary of a small business starting up; all they have to go through, permits for this, tax issues, supplier problems, online-fraud, etc. That would be totally friggin cool. AND it would be great advertisement. Everyone wins.
This is just plain advertisement. Buy a banner ad, friggin' euro-cheapskate!
Re:Mod Parent Up. (Score:2)
The message should read: (Score:2, Funny)
gone for a month. (Score:2)
Thats losses for a months worth of nerdyware.At least make sure your site has enough bandwidth before posting on slashdot OR use one of those caching things
I don't mind commercial ads, iff... (Score:2)
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Re:Slashdotted (Score:1)
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Anyone know if they have things other than "Think Geek" and if so will they ship to the US?
-nB
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Re:blah (Score:3, Interesting)
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 assoc
Re:blah (Score:2, Insightful)
The purpose of the localised domain structure is so that you can have local sites. This company has probably since its inception had the intention of selling throughout the EU, hence their choice to go with one of the 3 main standard TLDs (.com,
Had they gone for a Danish domain name, do you really think they would have received as much business in the rest of europe/the world?
If you ever plan on sa
Re:great slashvertisement (Score:2, Funny)
For Q3 FY2003, OSTG's EBITDA was $1MM.
Re:great slashvertisement (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:great slashvertisement [ot] (Score:2)
Re:How sad, then... (Score:3, Funny)
It's late in the afternoon (or possibly evening, depending on your frame of reference) in Sweden right now, and unless someone has stealthily moved Denmark to someplace better, it should be the same time there.
Re:Slashdot Billboard (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:slashdotted already (Score:5, Informative)
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! (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee mug: 10
T Shirt: 15
Mouse pad: 5
Slashdotting the site: Priceless
Re:SQL error! (Score:2)
Slashdotting the site: Priceless
If it is actually a slashvertisement as some would have you believe, it did cost them to turn their site into a smoldering pile of rubble . . .