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EU planning to kill small online businesses?

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  • DVardysShadow
    DVardysShadow Posts: 18,949 Forumite
    PROLIANT wrote: »
    This is crazy and illegal!
    I run a micro-business online where most of my goods are manufactured and sold via ecommerce.
    If they do enforce this fascist policy I will simply trade from a PO Box in the US and open a US bank account.
    I suspect all they want you to do is have a proper address where you can be contacted - and held accountable if you are a rogue trader. Your problem will be that if you trade from a US PO Box, you will make yourself indistinguishable from rogue traders.
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  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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    I suspect all they want you to do is have a proper address where you can be contacted - and held accountable if you are a rogue trader. Your problem will be that if you trade from a US PO Box, you will make yourself indistinguishable from rogue traders.
    Agreed; unless i have mis-read the news my understanding is that I would require a physical shop?
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,803 Forumite
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    Did Reuters get this from the Daily Mail? Sounds like one of their 'what the EU is planning to do' scare stories.
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