If you want more European customers... Ship within the EU... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And no, buying in person isn't a great option, from the 5 stores I looked at (all except one in Budapest btw) where you can get them, two of them don't sell it anymore, and the other two have like 3 models at a giant markup with no accessories (tracker, coin pocket, etc.)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

No idea how difficult selling and posting stuff within the EU is but selling things from Australia to Germany for example is a nightmare.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's true the EU has a slight tendency to worry a lot about bureaucracy, and forms. Some people, I obviously would not be one of them, could even go as far as to say the EU cannot fart unless they filled a form and asked for a commission to validate the form, and then ask another commission to select a bureau that will validate the validation by the first commission. So, yeah, it's not perfect ;)

That being said, ask the UK how good it felt to them (and to us, Europeans) trying to do business together after their Brexit took effect. That was a gigantic pain in the butt. A true kafkaesque level of absurd & nightmarish bureaucracy non-sense.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's dead easy within the EU, it's one of the reasons it exists. But a lot of Dutch companies are xenophobic as hell.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ahahahahaha: taxes, trash, recyle, labels, shipping

Yes its a lot less hassel than shipping/selling from outside but i would not call it easy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

A friend of mine (EU national married to an Australian, living in Australia) has given up on trying to ship products from her small online business to the EU. The red tape is apparently a massive headache, and that's coming from someone who's familiar with both sides of the equation.

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