Brexit realities in the hobby Industry!

[limburger 14979xp 1]

tick boxes are silly … just look at the ridiculous cookie dialogs that infest every website since the EU decided to make a law about that sort of stuff.
Most people don’t know why they have to pick any of the options, website use all sorts of tricks to get you tick the boxes that they want … net result is we get more hassle with zero benefit.

Trying to find loopholes like PSC do is only going to cause more problems.
Customers are going to want to know for sure that their order is under the limit.

Never mind the questions when orders get split because only parts get shipped …

Reminds me of the trick that certain companies used by providing invalid info on the shipping manifest which allowed them to skip taxes and custom duties. It worked because customs can’t afford to check every shipment … until they decided that there were an awful lot of ‘books’ getting shipped from china.

These initial few weeks/months/years will be the same.
Some companies are going to find and abuse every loophole they can find.
Some have enough resources to cover the extra costs.
And the rest will have to suffer …

[admiralandy 714xp 0]

Talking of China, they might be getting trade embargoed due to there committing Genocide.

How that might affect FFG in the UK, and perhaps as consumers we need to think about that.

Its currently been debated anyway in a larger context as giving the power to the courts or parliament retaining the power to decide what country is committing genocide and therefore not trading with them.

 

I’m not a law major but that’s what I heard in the news today.

[somegeezer 11776xp 2]

@limburger the pop-ups aren’t required by the EU. I used to work for an internet privacy concern and their recommendation was use a banner but with the sorts of trackers people are concerned about disabled until users have permission.

The decision to show a pop-up on your first visit usually comes from the digital marketing folk who can’t live without their trackers.

[suddenParticipant 123xp 3]

Well, as someone who has always loved ”Made in the UK” Brexit is a disaster, and the rules seems to be really fuzzy.
I love Jaguar cars (I know, owned be a former colony but made in the UK) but since there are no clear rules at Jaguar in Sweden I now bought a Mercedes instead, great car but not made in the UK…

As a gamer / miniature painter I have bought almost all my stuff from the UK, there are great minis from small independent manufacturers. My last order this month got really pricey, custom fees and 25% swedish VAT…

I guess I have to find other places to buy from like Germany (like my car) or Poland. It feels like we are back in the -80’s when ordering from GW meant four weeks delivery, customs and more VAT…

Dear Brits, why did you leave…

[limburger 14979xp 1]

@somegeezer the entire cookie law monstrosity was designed, explained and exploited by idiots.
I’ve yet to see a website that uses those dialogs/banners without finding a way to make you feel guilty when disabling all of them.
It’s also not exactly impossible to track users without forcing them to eat your cookies.

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@sudden we’re only “back in the 80’s” because the laws/regulations in place are likely to kill off the small independents who can’t afford to wade through the clear as mud red tape both sides have constructed.
GW will survive because they are big enough to eat the cost of adjusting to the new regulations and they have enough loyal addicts who will buy anything …

I do wonder if the impact would have been worse if Covid hadn’t been a thing.

[ninjilly 5764xp 0]

@sudden many of us stuck here wonder why every day…

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