And no, buying in person isn’t a great option, from the 5 stores I looked at (all except one in Budapest btw) where you can get them, two of them don’t sell it anymore, and the other two have like 3 models at a giant markup with no accessories (tracker, coin pocket, etc.)
I’ve got mine on https://www.gentlemanstore.hu/kiegeszitok-1/ It wasn’t more expensive than buying direct
No idea how difficult selling and posting stuff within the EU is but selling things from Australia to Germany for example is a nightmare.
It’s true the EU has a slight tendency to worry a lot about bureaucracy, and forms. Some people, I obviously would not be one of them, could even go as far as to say the EU cannot fart unless they filled a form and asked for a commission to validate the form, and then ask another commission to select a bureau that will validate the validation by the first commission. So, yeah, it’s not perfect ;)
That being said, ask the UK how good it felt to them (and to us, Europeans) trying to do business together after their Brexit took effect. That was a gigantic pain in the butt. A true kafkaesque level of absurd & nightmarish bureaucracy non-sense.
It’s dead easy within the EU, it’s one of the reasons it exists. But a lot of Dutch companies are xenophobic as hell.
Ahahahahaha: taxes, trash, recyle, labels, shipping
Yes its a lot less hassel than shipping/selling from outside but i would not call it easy.
A friend of mine (EU national married to an Australian, living in Australia) has given up on trying to ship products from her small online business to the EU. The red tape is apparently a massive headache, and that’s coming from someone who’s familiar with both sides of the equation.
I have one and can recommend, have seen them on displays in touristy areas (don’t mean gift shops) for what seems the same price. Might be worthwhile to search a bit more in Budapest. Understand you prefer to buy online, but can’t help you there unfortunately.
Or even to the US. There’s plenty of shitty companies over here I would rather avoid buying from .
Meh, the coin thingy is an afterthough which makes the note storage kinda useless (you cant use notes without getting coins back), and the note storage seems to be plastic? And the claim that cards snap in normal wallets is just ridiculous
