Reply To: GPSR horror (argh!)

[redscope]

My general view is that the new GPSR rules are a good thing. They are not designed to trip up hobby companies we have to look at the wider picture of what is going on in retail with companies like Timu, Ali Express and now Amazon had started to look at the same model.  Not suggesting they are doing anything illegal but the items on the store could raise saftey questions.

In terms of the EU to be clear this applies to the EU and any product for sale in that market including those produced in the EU. Hence Brexit is not the issue in fact this this GPSR does not applied to the UK. However it does show how dumb Brexit was because even outside of EU, UK companies are still impacted by the ruling we just no longer have a say.

I think the like the VAT rules it will take some time for the hobby companies to adjust to the new rules and yes prices will rise due to additional admin costs. On the plus side maybe it can reduce cheap knock off products in the hobby which is only likely to rise in the future.

Finally if you think this is bad wait until you know who gets into office and starts to put his 60% tarriff on imports from china and 20% on the EU. That is going to have a far bigger impact on the hobby come Jan.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by redscope.