It's not just goods that I try to help people paying "Ingen MOMs" for in Denmark.
Soon I'll be going "IngenMOMs" myself, by which I mean, following a number of devastating experiences in socialist hell, I've decided to go back to the UK at least for the next few months.
In the UK, I used to get paid more, pay half as much tax, and then on top of that virtually everything bar wood was loads cheaper too. So why sacrifice myself for the "Nordic Model", I ask you?
And before anyone claims otherwise, a desire to pay less taxes and keep more of my hard-earned money in my own pocket are THE major factor in this decision. Well done Denmark, here, have 100% of nothing from me in future, instead of being reasonable and settling for 20-30% of something.
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søndag den 13. januar 2008
lørdag den 15. september 2007
Site Relaunch
Okay, maybe not quite. But I've had a bit of a rejig of my three main Danish sites and the results can be seen at :-
http://www.ingenmoms.dk
http://www.sparmoms.dk
http://www.itcontractor.dk
Would appreciate some feedback on the results.
http://www.ingenmoms.dk
http://www.sparmoms.dk
http://www.itcontractor.dk
Would appreciate some feedback on the results.
onsdag den 12. september 2007
Buying on Amazon and avoiding the taxes
Amazon was the first retailer by the EU forced to charge sales taxes at the buyers rate. A clear example of the real Euro view on supposed free trade.
Painful for a Eurobuyer like me, browsing through their amazing product database, seeing loads of goods I'd love to buy at excellent prices, but excluded from doing so.
Worse still, in Denmark, and probably some other smaller european countries without their own Amazon site, it charges something like £3.99 postage per book. So, say you spotted a book for £5.99 you fancied. It would end up costing £5.99 + £3.99 + 25% MOMs, ie £12.50!!!
As such, Amazon is losing a lot of Eurotrade. A lot of Danes still buy from there though, because they're not aware of other options like Play, who do FREE postage to anywhere in Europe with no Sales taxes added (under £15/22euros).
But there is a way to buy from Amazon and avoid the MOMs, and that is to use the "Third Party Sellers". Whenever you search for a book, you will see alternative prices below the Amazon price. Click on this to see what other sellers are offering the book via Amazon.
These sellers will charge you the asking price plus, about £3.99 postage. They will not add MOMs on, except perhaps within their original asking price - the price will not change because of your buyers location. This can work out to be a good deal, and I personally have even bought the occasional book from the USA using this service. Not all sellers are willing to post to Europe, but there are so many choices you will normally find one who does.
Highly recommended. So visit Amazon and browse freely.
Please report back on any recommended sellers you find!
Painful for a Eurobuyer like me, browsing through their amazing product database, seeing loads of goods I'd love to buy at excellent prices, but excluded from doing so.
Worse still, in Denmark, and probably some other smaller european countries without their own Amazon site, it charges something like £3.99 postage per book. So, say you spotted a book for £5.99 you fancied. It would end up costing £5.99 + £3.99 + 25% MOMs, ie £12.50!!!
As such, Amazon is losing a lot of Eurotrade. A lot of Danes still buy from there though, because they're not aware of other options like Play, who do FREE postage to anywhere in Europe with no Sales taxes added (under £15/22euros).
But there is a way to buy from Amazon and avoid the MOMs, and that is to use the "Third Party Sellers". Whenever you search for a book, you will see alternative prices below the Amazon price. Click on this to see what other sellers are offering the book via Amazon.
These sellers will charge you the asking price plus, about £3.99 postage. They will not add MOMs on, except perhaps within their original asking price - the price will not change because of your buyers location. This can work out to be a good deal, and I personally have even bought the occasional book from the USA using this service. Not all sellers are willing to post to Europe, but there are so many choices you will normally find one who does.
Highly recommended. So visit Amazon and browse freely.
Please report back on any recommended sellers you find!
mandag den 3. september 2007
Buying on eBay and Paying NO SALES TAXES
Despite what people think, it is possible to use ebay legally to great advantage.
I'll explain this using a recent personal example.
I needed one of those cassettes you insert into your car stereo and can plug an MP3 player or CD player into so that you can listen to a greater choice of music or audiobooks while driving.
In Denmark, these things cost 250 krone or more.
On ebay, Chinese and Hong Kong sellers are selling them on "But it Now", factory direct for 99 pence, or about 11 krone! Even with postage, it still works out to £3, or 33 krone.
The seller doesn't have to charge me any sales taxes because the item is being exported. In the case of Hong Kong, there are no sales taxes anyway. Then, because the item is valued at under 22 Euros/£15, there are no sales taxes to pay in Denmark.
About 14 days later, the item arrived and works perfectly.
You will agree that that is quite some saving!
So top tip is, whatever you are looking to buy new, consider using ebay. My next purchase I'm considering is a USB TV Aerial for my PC, and these things cost 600 krone or more in Denmark. Chinese sellers are currently selling them for 99 pence + approx. £7.99 postage.
The other reason they are cheaper is that you are cutting out all the middlemen who repackage the items and add a huge mark up. So this is definitely a benefit to global direct trade, in my opinion...and global warming too if you consider the amount of wasted packaging you get with these things. The shop direct one from China arrived in a Jiffy envelope, no extra packaging.
And remember that by buying through Paypal you do have some guarantees should you pay but not receive your item.
So remember to check out ebay.
I'll explain this using a recent personal example.
I needed one of those cassettes you insert into your car stereo and can plug an MP3 player or CD player into so that you can listen to a greater choice of music or audiobooks while driving.
In Denmark, these things cost 250 krone or more.
On ebay, Chinese and Hong Kong sellers are selling them on "But it Now", factory direct for 99 pence, or about 11 krone! Even with postage, it still works out to £3, or 33 krone.
The seller doesn't have to charge me any sales taxes because the item is being exported. In the case of Hong Kong, there are no sales taxes anyway. Then, because the item is valued at under 22 Euros/£15, there are no sales taxes to pay in Denmark.
About 14 days later, the item arrived and works perfectly.
You will agree that that is quite some saving!
So top tip is, whatever you are looking to buy new, consider using ebay. My next purchase I'm considering is a USB TV Aerial for my PC, and these things cost 600 krone or more in Denmark. Chinese sellers are currently selling them for 99 pence + approx. £7.99 postage.
The other reason they are cheaper is that you are cutting out all the middlemen who repackage the items and add a huge mark up. So this is definitely a benefit to global direct trade, in my opinion...and global warming too if you consider the amount of wasted packaging you get with these things. The shop direct one from China arrived in a Jiffy envelope, no extra packaging.
And remember that by buying through Paypal you do have some guarantees should you pay but not receive your item.
So remember to check out ebay.
fredag den 31. august 2007
New Site Launch...
Well, and this is largely thanks to Mr Jenkin's comments, the site will now be opening a new sister site www.sparmoms.dk. Quite a nifty domain name and one I had my eye on when I bought www.ingenmoms.dk but it belonged to someone else.
I guess they didn't renew and that the name must have finally dropped in the past week.
Star man for reminding me!
I guess they didn't renew and that the name must have finally dropped in the past week.
Star man for reminding me!
onsdag den 29. august 2007
Savings on Whitegoods (Hvidevarer)
When we first moved here, we visited Punkt 1, a well known Danish electrical chain for our appliances.
Word of warning here - NEVER pay the asking prices here. We were told this by other people beforehand and forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes, since we were able to get approx 15% off the list price on what we bought.
2 years later, our Zanussi Tumble Dryer (Tørretumbler) has fallen by the wayside so now time to look for a new one and this time, mission is to save money by buying in Germany.
Checklist
1) Decide on the exact model you want
2) See how much it is in Denmark using the Kelkoo search engine on Ingen MOMs
3) Now search on the German (Tysk) Kelkoo and see the difference!
Wow. We were amazed. Every appliance we looked at could be bought for approx 30-40% cheaper than in Denmark. And that includes Flegaard who are about 50 yards on the German side of the border and thus list on Kelkoo DK.
Even worse, one of the appliances we were interested in an AEG energiklasse A was available for the equivalent of 4,000 krone, but our local Skousen had it in for an amazing 10,000 krone (that's nearly £1,000 for a tumble dryer!). Imagine overpaying to that extent.
Next step is to find a German retailer willing to ship to Denmark. Not as difficult as it sounds, and with the help of Free translation on the internet, a non-German speaker like myself could work it all out.
Result :
10 days later we have a new Siemens WT46E301. The price? A mere 3,190 krone, including delivery to our door.
The Danish Prices ranged from 4,900 krone to 6,500 for the EXACT SAME model.
Only downside is that the dial is in German, buy hey, I'll happily learn 10 words of German for 1,800 krone.
I'll post the site at some point soon, along with details of a Danish bank that does FREE international money transfers, since a lot of German retailers only take cash.
Word of warning here - NEVER pay the asking prices here. We were told this by other people beforehand and forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes, since we were able to get approx 15% off the list price on what we bought.
2 years later, our Zanussi Tumble Dryer (Tørretumbler) has fallen by the wayside so now time to look for a new one and this time, mission is to save money by buying in Germany.
Checklist
1) Decide on the exact model you want
2) See how much it is in Denmark using the Kelkoo search engine on Ingen MOMs
3) Now search on the German (Tysk) Kelkoo and see the difference!
Wow. We were amazed. Every appliance we looked at could be bought for approx 30-40% cheaper than in Denmark. And that includes Flegaard who are about 50 yards on the German side of the border and thus list on Kelkoo DK.
Even worse, one of the appliances we were interested in an AEG energiklasse A was available for the equivalent of 4,000 krone, but our local Skousen had it in for an amazing 10,000 krone (that's nearly £1,000 for a tumble dryer!). Imagine overpaying to that extent.
Next step is to find a German retailer willing to ship to Denmark. Not as difficult as it sounds, and with the help of Free translation on the internet, a non-German speaker like myself could work it all out.
Result :
10 days later we have a new Siemens WT46E301. The price? A mere 3,190 krone, including delivery to our door.
The Danish Prices ranged from 4,900 krone to 6,500 for the EXACT SAME model.
Only downside is that the dial is in German, buy hey, I'll happily learn 10 words of German for 1,800 krone.
I'll post the site at some point soon, along with details of a Danish bank that does FREE international money transfers, since a lot of German retailers only take cash.
fredag den 24. august 2007
Ingen MOMs - Why did I do it?
I moved to Denmark 2 years ago with my Danish partner. While overall it's a nice country, the thing that really gets to me here is the HIGH TAXES!
There's even a 25% sales tax, MOMs, on everything that you buy with what's left of your hard earned income (after income taxes of up to 70% have been paid) so life can prove bloody expensive here.
THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT YOU CAN NOW AVOID PAYING THESE TAXES AND BUY YOUR STUFF CHEAPER ABROAD!
Books, CDs, DVDs, Computer Games, Kitchenaid, Dyson, Tumble Dryer, Washing Machine, Magazines...hell, we've bought all that and more and saved as much as 95%. Yes, you read that right...Ninety-five percent!!!
I want to tell as many people as possible, hard-working people like YOU about the sites out there you can save this money at. A single website of recommended links goes a long way to spreading the word and also saves you the hours we put in finding reliable retailers that deliver to Denmark and charge reasonable postage prices. http://www.ingenmoms.dk/ is the result.
I therefore hope that IngenMOMs.DK can strike a blow for the principles of fair trade, fair taxation and personal freedom of choice. Who knows, maybe one day even cars won't cost 3 times the price in Denmark as the rest of the world...
There's even a 25% sales tax, MOMs, on everything that you buy with what's left of your hard earned income (after income taxes of up to 70% have been paid) so life can prove bloody expensive here.
THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT YOU CAN NOW AVOID PAYING THESE TAXES AND BUY YOUR STUFF CHEAPER ABROAD!
Books, CDs, DVDs, Computer Games, Kitchenaid, Dyson, Tumble Dryer, Washing Machine, Magazines...hell, we've bought all that and more and saved as much as 95%. Yes, you read that right...Ninety-five percent!!!
I want to tell as many people as possible, hard-working people like YOU about the sites out there you can save this money at. A single website of recommended links goes a long way to spreading the word and also saves you the hours we put in finding reliable retailers that deliver to Denmark and charge reasonable postage prices. http://www.ingenmoms.dk/ is the result.
I therefore hope that IngenMOMs.DK can strike a blow for the principles of fair trade, fair taxation and personal freedom of choice. Who knows, maybe one day even cars won't cost 3 times the price in Denmark as the rest of the world...
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