Reply To: [unofficial weekender] A civilized discussion is a nice thing to have

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Good afternoon, chaps! I’m working on a British MMG team for Bolt Action this weekend. Hopefully I can get at least the main gun/gunner finished before moving on to the loader and the spotter. Want to try and get a basic force of Brits finished so that I might actually be able to play once the world stops being on fire…though I still have to make the webbing on some of the chaps I’ve painted look a little greener…

Questions!

Has Brexit changed your online shopping behaviour?

As I’m not living back home right now it hasn’t changed much in my shopping behaviour, though mentally it is monumentally frustrating to me, but that’s bordering on political so I’ll say no more there.

Have shipping and taxes ever held you from buying something you really wanted?

All the time… For some reason Canada doesn’t just include the tax cost on the shelf price so you always know whatever the price says it is, it is going to be more. Never understood that logic, myself. It causes problems for things bought overseas, though, because Canada often adds their own tax on top of what you already paid…which delays deliveries and such. It’s kind of annoying. The shipping costs thing frustrates me, too. GW is pretty bad for it with their ‘Free Shipping over x monies’ but if you DON’T reach that amount the price of shipping is extortionate… I love GW as a brand; I often hate them as a company…

How could small, one-man-operated companies band together to get their stuff to people outside their “tax-zone”?

Smuggling? That’s not entirely a joke… Small companies always struggle in conditions like that, because the big companies have the capital to deal with such obstacles. That was the beauty of being in the Union; we could get all sorts of things from all sorts of places with little to no hindrance. Honestly, I’d say moving companies to Ireland would probably do those companies the most good. Yes, Britain is a big market, but the EU has more potential buyers.

I did think of linking a few songs related to the subject, but decided they may be a little on the political side, so here’s some Alestorm instead: