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[Closed] EU sites with.co.uk addresses, availability?

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 FOG
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Looking at some euro sites to buy stuff but as you know a lot won’t send to uk at this moment. There are some sites like bikester and bikeinn which I am sure are euro but have .co.uk addresses. Does this mean they have a base in uk and will still send stuff? I was actually after some omniheat boots from snowinn.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 10:46 am
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not in my experience, that's just to trick you into thinking its a UK company.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 10:50 am
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If it helps, I found Amazon to be the cheapest for the Fairbanks Omni-heats.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 11:08 am
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Will be interesting to see if there are new rules brought in to limit the use of UK domains in the same way that EU domains are being reclaimed post-Brexit. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent right now and makes sense given the potential for import duties etc.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 11:31 am
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Will be interesting to see if there are new rules brought in to limit the use of UK domains

I can't see this happening. Nominet enjoy being an extremely profitable not-for-profit, and won't want to limit their domain sales.

EU domains have always had the residency requirement, it's just that post-Brexit, UK residents no longer qualify.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 11:56 am
 FOG
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For some reason on Amazon my size -13 is nearly £20 more than some of the smaller sizes but on Snowinn they are the same price. To thicken the plot even more , when I looked closer at the Amazon page it stated the boots were supplied by Tradeinn, which is surely another part of the .......inn group


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 12:23 pm
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I ordered a part from bikeinn on the 1st, still not arrived yet. When I tracked the parcel it was sent from Spain and arrived in Wales on the 9th. Presumably they have a premises of some sort in Wales where they then forward the parcel from. I would imagine if they have premises in the UK its to get round brexit problems, maybe?

Edit: actually I just checked again, it wasn't delivered to Wales at all, it was Bletchley from Spain via France. I read the Welsh writing on the royal mail track and trace page not realising it is just a link to change to Welsh language. Doh!


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 1:45 pm
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That is nothing, one of my pupils applied to Uni through UCAS and accidentally ticked the box to receive all of her communications in Welsh. That took a bit of sorting out.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 3:06 pm
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This thread title reminded me - Leave.EU recently re-registered themselves as an Irish company, as Brexit meant they could no longer keep their domain name.


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 3:28 pm
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when I looked closer at the Amazon page it stated the boots were supplied by Tradeinn, which is surely another part of the …….inn group

Yeah - I think Tradeinn is the umbrella company. I used to get a lot of scuba/spearfishing stuff off Diveinn, and a lot of the comms would come through Tradeinn


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 4:08 pm
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That is nothing, one of my pupils applied to Uni through UCAS and accidentally ticked the box to receive all of her communications in Welsh. That took a bit of sorting out.

My dad managed to change his TV to show all of the on-screen prompts in Polish.
It took me quite a while to find the option to change it back to English


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 4:40 pm
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This thread title reminded me – <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">Leave.EU</span> recently re-registered themselves as an Irish company, as Brexit meant they could no longer keep their domain name.

Tried... https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40204208.html

see how it works out


 
Posted : 13/01/2021 5:02 pm

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