Thinkgeek Alternative for EU Residents? 24
Sam Lowry asks: "I was looking for a kind of Thinkgeek alternative for
European consumers for whom the shipping price at Thinkgeek
is sometimes bigger than the price of the gadgets. As for now, I could not find any. Do they actually exist? European geeks should feel desperate not to be able to offer themselves a Debian mug or a /. T-shirt." Sometimes it's difficult to get the necessary clearences to ship certain things overseas (like products with caffeine additives, for one). Maybe some entrepreneurial person will take a look at this and correct the problem...
TG franchise (Score:1)
australia? (Score:1)
anyone know of any?
APO??? (Score:4)
I'm with the US military here in Germany and if I want to order something I need to order it to a friend in the states and he has to ship it to me.
There is no cost differance between shipping to APO than to anyother location within the USA!
I find it amazing (Score:1)
ThinkGeek is the Slashdot equivalent of 'South of the Border' on the North Carolina-South Carolina border or any gaudy tourist trap.
It's pretty damn sad that VA Linux is so desperate for ad dollars that it needs to plant troll advertising as a legitimate 'Ask Slashdot Question'.
This is almost as pathetic as the multiple front-page ads (...err stories) for the dude who sells Atari 2600 games.
EU alternative, kinda... (Score:1)
Last time i was in downtown London i bought one of those gigabot's. A geek-tamagotchi, i got sick of it within the hour, it'll drive you completly mad. It does look kewl with a joint stuck in its mouth |o)
It doesn't have "i 0wn u" t-shirts, but it's better than nothin...
Re:APO??? (Score:3)
Unfortunately, short of the vendor knowing details about the military's mail delivery (that is, after it reaches New York), the vendor cannot know what the restrictions are. In these cases, the vendor simply refuses to ship to APO addresses.
I am very familiar with this. My parents lived in Saudi Arabia for 9 years, and I had to deal with the Post Office not even knowing what can be sent. There was more than a few times that I had packages returned to me after a week or more, as they were refused at the APO site in New York.
There are other considerations besides cost!
I Also Find It Amazing... (Score:2)
It's pretty damned sad that you can't see the question for what it is (a request for help, and a valid Ask Slashdot) than as a "troll for VA ad dollars". Not a once do I even mention VA in the story (I even say entrepreneurial in the text! Since when does "entrepreneurial" imply "VA Linux"?)
I posted this question due to the fact that there have been several questions hitting the bin mentioning that ThinkGeek has problems sending certain products to certain countries. There's not a damned thing they can do about it, either. Simple things like caffeine-added products (Penguin Mints, anyone) are ILLEGAL to send to places like Sweden!
So there are people out there that can't get what they want from ThinkGeek and they are looking for alternatives. Just what in the hell is wrong, or amazing in all of that?
Turn the question around... (Score:2)
Where do the Japanese (OK, I can't read a Japanese web site -- Australian, then) buy cool gizmos online? Where do the Brits shop for toys when they shop on their Nokias? What do the Italians buy when they want to upstage their German friends?
Inquiring geeks want to know!
Group purchase maybe? (Score:1)
That would seem to make the shipping price a much lower percentage of the entire cost of the purchase than you would get by only ordering stuff for yourself.
Enjoy!
Print you own T-shirts (Score:1)
Pirate T-shirt HOWTO
Most important point - wash the T-Shirt dry it and iron it before transfering your design. This gets the starch out of the fabric and gives you a nice smooth surface to transfer to.
Now fire up the GIMP and make your first T-shirt which should be a test T-shirt to see what the colors look like after transfer. Make a range of color swatches in various tints (don't forget to identify the color formula used i.e. % of Cyan, yellow, Magenta and black). No reason to waste a T-shirt so type in "The original pirate T-shirt color swatch shirt"! Maybe add a pirate flag motif...
Once you have printed the transfer and ironed it on let it cool down then check which colors print best.
Now go over to Think Geek and check out some T-shirt designs. Another good spot is http://www.unamerican.com. Make your design and don't forget to sign it "I stole this T-shirt design from...". Hey! Credit where credit is due.
This HOWTO is to be used only in countries where postage rates prohibit importing the real thing.
Copyleft all rights reversed... Blah Blah
Re:Group purchase maybe? (Score:1)
Re:I Also Find It Amazing... (Score:2)
Re:Print you own T-shirts (Score:1)
Re:Group purchase maybe? (Score:1)
Even ordering in bulk isn't the best solution, because that adds weight to the package and shipping is usually calculated by package weight and distance to destination
Re:Print you own T-shirts (Score:1)
I got mine at my local supermarket...
Re:Turn the question around... (Score:1)
Mmmmmmmmmmmm......
Re:I Also Find It Amazing... (Score:1)
Re:yet another example of American cluelessness (Score:1)
Copyleft.net (Score:3)
Re:yet another example of American cluelessness (Score:1)
yet another example of American cluelessness (Score:1)
Americans are the first to talk about global markets, yet they fail to open branches outside USA. Clueless... If ThinkGeek's people had half a brain, they would already have a warehouse in Ireland and another one in New Zealand, to serve the European and Asia-Pacific markets.
kangaroot (Score:1)
Re:Print you own T-shirts (Score:1)
Nice HOWTO, but you left out the most important part: WHERE can we get these special iron on transfers?
(wait, wait, don't tell me, they sell them at Think Geek, right?)
Tip for Canadians (Score:1)