Evil EUSSR strikes again

[AtW]

EU to end consumer 'geoblocking' by end of 2018

COMPANIES SELLING consumer goods within the EU will have to stop geoblocking, or re-routing, customers to their local stores by the end of next year.

It's common practice for companies like Amazon and other internet retailers to reroute customers to the local version of their sites automatically based on IP address information, but that leaves visitors with fewer choices and variable pricing between countries, rather than being allowed to purchase from whichever version of the store they want to use.

To help combat this in future, the European Parliament, the 28 (current) member states of the EU, and the EU Commission have agreed to allow consumers in the EU to purchase products from any EU country by default.

What the new rules don't cover, however, is shipping of those products - if the online retailer doesn't offer international shipping, the onus is on the buyer to arrange collection of the item within the shipping terms that are offered.

"We are upgrading the EU Single Market to the digital world by giving consumers the same possibility to access the widest range of offers regardless of whether they physically enter a shop in another country or whether they shop online. Next stop: bringing down prices of cross-border parcel delivery, which still discourage people from buying and selling products across the EU," Elżbieta Bieńkowska, in charge of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs at the EC, said in the announcement.

Source: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...by-end-of-2018

Thank Lord we are Brexiting!!!

[northernladyuk]

EU to end consumer 'geoblocking' by end of 2018

COMPANIES SELLING consumer goods within the EU will have to stop geoblocking, or re-routing, customers to their local stores by the end of next year.

It's common practice for companies like Amazon and other internet retailers to reroute customers to the local version of their sites automatically based on IP address information, but that leaves visitors with fewer choices and variable pricing between countries, rather than being allowed to purchase from whichever version of the store they want to use.

To help combat this in future, the European Parliament, the 28 (current) member states of the EU, and the EU Commission have agreed to allow consumers in the EU to purchase products from any EU country by default.

What the new rules don't cover, however, is shipping of those products - if the online retailer doesn't offer international shipping, the onus is on the buyer to arrange collection of the item within the shipping terms that are offered.

"We are upgrading the EU Single Market to the digital world by giving consumers the same possibility to access the widest range of offers regardless of whether they physically enter a shop in another country or whether they shop online. Next stop: bringing down prices of cross-border parcel delivery, which still discourage people from buying and selling products across the EU," Elżbieta Bieńkowska, in charge of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs at the EC, said in the announcement.

Source: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...by-end-of-2018

Thank Lord we are Brexiting!!!

It's all part of their dastardly plan.

[BrilloPad]

Car prices in the UK have been way too high for a very long while. UK consumers generally have had too much money and will pay higher prices than needed.

[meridian]

Car prices in the UK have been way too high for a very long while. UK consumers generally have had too much money and will pay higher prices than needed.

Your second sentence reads like your solution to high prices is to make people poorer?

[BrilloPad]

Your second sentence reads like your solution to high prices is to make people poorer?

People can mitigate the coming recession by shopping round more.

[Bean]

EU to end consumer 'geoblocking' by end of 2018

COMPANIES SELLING consumer goods within the EU will have to stop geoblocking, or re-routing, customers to their local stores by the end of next year.

It's common practice for companies like Amazon and other internet retailers to reroute customers to the local version of their sites automatically based on IP address information, but that leaves visitors with fewer choices and variable pricing between countries, rather than being allowed to purchase from whichever version of the store they want to use.

To help combat this in future, the European Parliament, the 28 (current) member states of the EU, and the EU Commission have agreed to allow consumers in the EU to purchase products from any EU country by default.

What the new rules don't cover, however, is shipping of those products - if the online retailer doesn't offer international shipping, the onus is on the buyer to arrange collection of the item within the shipping terms that are offered.

"We are upgrading the EU Single Market to the digital world by giving consumers the same possibility to access the widest range of offers regardless of whether they physically enter a shop in another country or whether they shop online. Next stop: bringing down prices of cross-border parcel delivery, which still discourage people from buying and selling products across the EU," Elżbieta Bieńkowska, in charge of Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs at the EC, said in the announcement.

Source: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...by-end-of-2018

Thank Lord we are Brexiting!!!

Hmmm, so all prices will be homogenised by the sellers - otherwise they'll just have unsold stock being offered at the higher prices/locations.
(Not to mention it doesn't affect shipping rules, so I wonder if they will go up to cover any difference too!)

Which direction do you think that price homogenisation will be, towards the lowest cost price, or towards the higher cost price?

[meridian]

Hmmm, so all prices will be homogenised by the sellers - otherwise they'll just have unsold stock being offered at the higher prices/locations.
(Not to mention it doesn't affect shipping rules, so I wonder if they will go up to cover any difference too!)

Which direction do you think that price homogenisation will be, towards the lowest cost price, or towards the higher cost price?

Could be a bit of both, depending on the product and location. There's still a discrepancy between the higher and lower economies of countries within the EU, so it would be difficult for a seller of a product that has their main market in CEE but also sells in DE to homogenise their prices to DE prices.

[filthy1980]

tiptoeing towards centralised price controls

[AtW]

tiptoeing towards centralised price controls

[northernladyuk]

tiptoeing towards centralised price controls

Only in ParanoidNutjobLand.