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RE: Their what location?
By Oregonian2 on 4/6/2007 2:05:34 PM , Rating: 2
Imagine that you were about to walk into a shop in California and they told you "You're from Oregon, so we refuse to let you in. Go to our shop in Oregon instead, and pay 50% extra". Perhaps that's legal in the USA. In the EU it is not.

P.S.- To address your example more directly, what you say above is NOT the case. When I got to the shop in California, they'd happily sell me goods from their shop at their prices. When I complained that prices at their Oregon store are lower, they'd tell me "Go back to Oregon and buy there to get Oregon prices!" rather than giving me Oregon prices while shopping in California. This is perfectly legal here and astounded that it's not in the EU.

RE: Their what location?
By Justin Case on 4/6/2007 8:42:10 PM , Rating: 2


But they cannot forbid an EU citizen whose connection happens to be through an italian ISP from entering the "french" or "german" shop.

Here's an example of a web shop that gets it right:

No matter which country you're in, you can visit any of their shops, compare prices, and buy from the one that you want (the prices are usually very close, but there are differences).

Since these shops sell physical goods, they could say "our UK shop doesn't ship to Portugal", and use that to force different people to pay different prices, but they don't even do that (and in some cases national and international shipping actually costs the same, so it definitely pays to check out multiple shops). But even if shop A didn't ship to country X, it would still need to be accessible by citizens from country X.

Is this really so hard to understand...??

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