So what is this bullshit? Does that mean we're suddenly going to see a price jump of several % in all of Europe...

>that mean the price will most lilely increase 15-20% for yuropoor
>while the US ones are understandable only because they need to ship the products across the world.
Shipping doesn't cost nearly that much money. Additionally shipping crossed the Atlantic (via boat or plane), is cheaper still due to all the commercial traffic that takes those routes.

This is a cash grab plain and simple.

Its a yuge screw.
Looks like its time to make Britain great again and rejoin the EU now that you've learned about what you were talking about all along.

Believe me.

This would be a massive price hike.

> lilely increase 15-20%

I wish. A start collecting box is £50 in the UK and $85 in the USA.

Due to the weakened pound $85 is about £65. That is a 30% price increase.This might be one of the largest prices hikes GW has ever done for people in the UK.

Please EU, take us back in, I don't want my little plastic men to be even more expensive. ;_;

Nah, this is only the start.
But it is also GW taking advantage to line their pockets and pad the investors reports.

It does say "in your country" and a commentary on fb said people from Turkey received that email. Could it be thay only those people will see a price hike?

>mfw May is actually surprised to see the EU leaders to come together and be tough bastards to negotiate with

Well considering this is the first time they've been anything other than spinless cowards...

source?

...

The pound falling just makes the sales they make abroad worth more. This is just a stealth price hike.

It is also very odd as prices in GW stores and the GW website will be different now & it will confuse many people as people expect websites to be in the correct currency for their area.

So, I don't see any sense in this. Well apart from raising prices.

I'm from germany and I did not recieve such a mail.

Wait. So it's JUST for the EU and not the UK or both?

We're talking about politicians, after all.

Rest of EU is a category in the online store
Countries like Germany, France or Italy have their own section, so apparently they'll not be affected by this

I sure fucking hope that germany is exempt from this.

Christ, the comparison to the EU acting like a mob boss sure is apt, huh?

I think that's what it's all about. The "Rest of EU" category will see a price hike, and that's about it.

ah okay, I see. Thank you for the clarification.

So basically all of eastern europe, but with poland being replaced by portugaul?

Just another nazi crusader nation trying to provoke erdogun. he'll show them. he'll show them right

>I don't want to be part of your club anymore!
>ok but you don't get benefits from being in it anymore
>whaaaaa you're a bully

Show us what? His wikipedia page?

>Country gets pissy and wants to leave while keeping the cake, eat it, and get the shop's money while it's at it
>"WTF dude no,do like everyone elsr if you want the cake, pay up"
>Waaaah EU is being rude

It would have been extremely silly to not expect the EU to tell the UK to fuck off when trying to retain all the advantages while having none of the drawbacks, come on. I don't want to start a sterile political debate, but as of now, the EU is acting like every expert predicted it would. It's more like our politicians that are actually surprised that suddenly the EU can get its shit together.

Just another nazi crusader nation trying to provoke erdogun. he'll show them. he'll show them right

I have to admit, I laughed.

Or not.

EU should never have existed in the form it is now.

But that's perfectly fine, paying a membership to prop up other countries just for free trade that could be done without the political union that we have now is retard.

Guess their budget that helps with brainwashing people to be pro-EU is working.

But no worries, when German industry tells its politicians to shut the fuck up you'll see a change in their tone.

Let's not get in a political debate here, but rather jope that this price hike doesn't concern one of us.

Ah yes, Brexit

Don't worry my man, most european companies are pretty happy to see their brits competitors just fuck off from the market. They will be fine.

Damn, that's quite a lot.
Well, freedom from the tyranny of stable prices is all that matters, right?

Eu is priced like Britain, isn't it?

>Eu is priced like Britain, isn't it?
since the brits never adopted the same currency as the rest of the eu: no

Compared to
A start collecting box is 65€ in the EU, which would be 55£.

No business is ever sad to see it's competition vanish. The only exception is if it's cause the industry itself is dying

That being said, if its your suppliers dying as well you've suddenly got a problem

Suppliers ain't your competition. They're your suppliers

EU as a trade union is a fantastic idea.

EU as a cooperate attempt at dealing with international crime is great.

EU as a pseudo US is fucking retarded, and an idea that should never have been conceived in the first place.

t. Denmark

We even got kicked out of the international police partnership, because we didn't want to give the EU full authority to come in and make arrests, with 0 influenze or permissions from our country.

The EU is an abomination, and it is killing itself by acting like some evil organisation trying to take over the world. Like, we are hilariously close to being a carbon copy of some bad villain organisation from an old video game.

Watch as GB gets submerged the first chance the EU gets, to bomb them off the world map, because of "unwillingness to cooperate"

At least in italy you pay around 5 euros more

I think that attitude is surprisingly common amongst the brits. I mean their stance is 90% advocating for trade and nothing else, which is maybe a little too far, but I guess we'll see.

Yes, but if we stick to trade, then the EU cant force your military to dress up in evil uniforms, and March to an evil and ominous theme song, while invading the dirty Asian countries, while also suppressing "dissenting citizens"

If that happens then the US will probably come over to freedomize the shit out the EU and a good number of member nations would just up and leave the EU as a result.

Well in that case I think we probably need to make an example of the Brits

>If
I wish I had your optimism my friend

+1

The EU visible don't give a shit, likely because they are already planning how to murder the fuck out of GB.

We dont need to worry about price hikes.

Every business in every industry is happy to see its competition vanish, which will lead to a lucrative monopoly due to economies of scale, and all the benefits of a price fixing cartel. New competitors usually can't penetrate the market - if the barrier of entry isn't high enough already, the company in a monopoly position can just temporarily lower its products' prices until the small business goes bankrupt. The usual way to accomplish this is by simply buying every competitor, which is why antitrust legislation exists to prevent this natural outcome of capitalism and to promote competition.

Yes, thank you for elaborating. Econ major?

The conspiracy is strong in this one. The EU can barely agree on simple stuff, at most they'll be happy if the UK's economy takes a hit, but it's just plain autism to think of the EU as some evil organisation. I'm pro European, and even I can see it's at most a bunch of politicians that want countried to get along and economies to flourish and ar worst puppets for companies to not get regulations into their businesses.

>I'm pro European, and even I can see it's at most a bunch of politicians that want countried to get along and economies to flourish
Well of course you'd see it like that, that's not really a surprising statement if you're pro-eu

Sigh.

The EU was always a project about integration. It was a project about making sure that Europeans spoke as one voice and that they had one national interest, so that we would stop fucking murdering each other in the millions, or exploiting the rest of the globe to obtain advantages over each other, like we had done since the ancient Greeks.

It was a project about unifying in democratic, liberal values, and making sure that the alternative and supporting ridiculously destructive authoritarian ideals came with such a hefty price to pay that it would be impossible.

Given, it all started with the economy, and rightfully so - if Germany declared war on France tomorrow its tanks would literally grind to a halt as the economies are so integrated that they wouldnt be able to refuel them. But dont kid yourself, it was always an integrationist project.

But, of course, time went on, people forgot about the horrors of the world wars (that were largely prevented from re-occuring due to the EU), and now every member state wants to cherry-pick the good bits and scream 'foreign domination' when it is requested to voluntarily cede its competences to the union.

Except the exact same argument can be used against an anti-eu when it starts shouting on every roof that the EU is some kind of evil organisation ruling to dominate the world you silly.

Trust me, the EU is mostly harmless. The most "menacing" and actually harmful they've ever been was when they applied sanctions on Russia, and still it wasn't that much.

>mfw the actuam survivors and fighters of WW2 are actually warning about the rise of the far right yet people don't listen to them

I swear people have short memories.

>and now every member state wants to cherry-pick the good bits and scream 'foreign domination' when it is requested to voluntarily cede its competences to the union.

Hey, I am all for separatism.
Idiots can only be taught by beating the hell out of them. Just let all these "nations" leave EU, NATO and see how long their clay remains theirs.
There's far too many artificial nations in Europe at the moment and they exist solely because of these integration policies.
They have no armies to protect themselves, no economies to benefit the world. All they have is some irrelevant patch of land they are horribly mis-managing.

Well yea. It was always the dream of socialist France to cripple it's neighbors

Well, you may be all for 'idiots can only be taught by beating the hell out of them', but as a European citizen, and one who knows that the pre-1945 history of Europe goes something like 'Nations national interests collided. War ensued. The civilian populace was massacred. Thousands, if not millions died.' repeated ad infinitum, I think that the 'beating the hell out of the idiot' approach has been quite exhausted

>mfw an independent Scotland and united Ireland might be a possibility because of Brexit
Not going to be so United of a Kingdom after that. I'd gladly support the Scots for a bit so we can laugh at the Brit's expense.

Britain signed up only if it would remain a trade union. Don't blame them for leaving when it starts acting like a nation

I'm pretty sure he didn't mean actively attacking a country. More like let it die out on its own because of the consequence of leaving the EU and Nato.

>(that were largely prevented from re-occuring due to the EU)
Yeah, nah
That was just due to having to pull together against the Soviets. The EU hasn't been around long enough to have prevented any serious wars yet.

>Scotland leaves the UK
>England no longer deals with the dead weight
>Europe has to deal with about 2 million overweight heroine addicts

So this means that are prices are even, all based off the US dollar? Feel our pain, its been like this a while for us burgers.

Only for the "rest of europe" store. Mostly eastern europe.

Well, no. Taking an enormous and complex issue such as 'reasons x joined the European Union' and giving a simple, easy to follow answer such as 'only as long as it remained a trade union' doesn't follow.

You know how the EU treaties have to be ratified by every member state to pass? And you know how the EU began to integrate politically with the Lisbon and Maastricht treaties? Who do you think agreed to that? (Hint: All the member states. Including the UK)

European citizen lol

>European citizen

Fucking state of you, mate.

Actually you can. Sorry europoor. UK sacrificed global trade in a time of austerity. They didn't do that to be told what do do by Germans

Either way, this will have more folks butthurt on prices. I just got into this, its hard to justify buting some of this and wil be making some of my own vehicles

The EU has been around in various forms for over half a century.

The first world war and second world war happened between 1914 and 1945, a period of 31 years.

No one can really say the EU prevented something from happening, because it never happened to be prevented, you know? So you look at the empirical evidence. How many wars have been fought between member states of the EU? 0.

And clearly the British people didn't like that, and are leaving.

Making your own shit is encouraged, user. Go for it.

>I don't want to be part of your club anymore!
>ok pay us a £50 billion leaving fee goyim
>no
>waaah, you want to have your cake and eat it

>British government agrees to integration
>British people don't like the direction the EU is heading
>Vote to leave by small margin
Seems pretty sensible to me

Saying the European prevented wars is like saying umbrellas stop skin cancer.
Maybe in the most abstract way. But the biggest prevention of war is the diplomatic relations

Despite liking that and signing up to it in the first place lol.

Whatever, my original point wasnt about Brexit, it was about the EU and some Danish guy and a flawed perception of why the EU exists. I dont want to feed brexiteers belief that England is the center of the world, so I want to veer away from discussing brexit.

The fact that the 50 billion has literally no reference to what that is for is hilarious

And the EU and diplomatic relations are completely unrelated, are they?

>How many wars have been fought between member states of the EU? 0.

A statistic like that is worthless without a baseline for comparison. How many wars have been fought between countries of comparable wealth and demographic makeup to EU members in the same time frame? Have switzerland, canada, australia, america, japan new zealand and norway fought any wars with each other or with EU members since the EU was founded?

As has been shown recently, seems like the EU is putting Europe at eachother's throats rather than pulling them together at the moment

Damn good point

Two NATO allies fought a war over Cyprus.

I mean 40 years ago we agreed to join a trading union, then all that happened with the government agreeing to it and the people disagreed and now we're leaving. And fuck off with calling the UK England.

>Pay more for your basket of goods for foreign products

Or

>get payed less by real wage

Yeah no fuck off cunt move to scotland if you want to rejoin the EU

Considering the eu, not the countries themselves are now trying to cracking down on dissent. I'd say the eu has done nothing but ruin relations

I dont get it, if its an equivalent exchange by real value and not nominal isn't this just arbitrary or are they actually going to go by nominal value just to fuck people over?

Yep, welcome to the democratic peace theory. The EU promotes good governance, stability, economic growth and democracy.

Heres a couple of things for you to think about; when the Iberian countries emerged from fascism, which organization helped ease their transition into democracy and economic recovery?

When the central and european countries emerged from Soviet domination after the collapse of the Soviet union, which political organisation was it their overarching objective to join? Why did all these countries turn into stable democracies and not descend into violence?

I mean, come on, why, after Brexit, do you think that the Northern Irish peace process has suddenly become an issue after all but disappearing?

I'm leaving here because I have to work, and this is ridiculously off topic for Veeky Forums (sorry mods), but just think about it, do a little research.

They are going by nominal value.

This, its going to turn out to be the League of Nations 2.0 and do fuck all except wag finger at people.

Was it literally a meaningless number? I don't keep up with european politics, but that seems ridiculous.

>as a European citizen
So how fucking romania this days ??

t french that will hopefully GTFO of UE soon

>why, after Brexit, do you think that the Northern Irish peace process has suddenly become an issue
This one is literally because of the EU