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[โ€“] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Western Europe should flood etsy with kickass stuff at really great prices to share and be cool to each other but then marks all sales as EU only. Use the US globalization as a way to squarely taunt the US digital bourgeoisie.

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[โ€“] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Unfortunately, it wouldn't be more than a symbolic middlefinger, because intra-EU sales are very difficult for private citizens due to how expensive it is to ship from one EU country to another. This is based on shipping prices as displayed on Ebay if you want to have something from e.g. Italy or Austria shipped to Germany a couple of years ago, but I doubt it got any better.

[โ€“] albert180@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It absolutely isn't expensive. Send last year a big 30kg package from Austria to Germany (because I was moving but didn't want to drive all the shit), was charged something between 20-30โ‚ฌ, and I believe that's the same price in all of the EU

[โ€“] rumschlumpel@feddit.org -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

20-30โ‚ฌ is more than the price of a lot of articles you'd want to buy ...

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

20-30kg is also a lot heavier

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