Dingdongler

Hello, can somebody help with this?

I want to buy a piece of electrical equipment that is made in Denmark. There it retails for £1500. In Germany it is on sale for 2000 euros = £1750, in this country its £2750.

The manafacturer has its distributors in all these countries (and more) Are there EU rules that say that the Danish or Germans must sell to me and post it? Or does the companies exclusive distribution agreements with the different countries over ride everything?

Thanks

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

If you can find a RETAILER, you are home and dry. If it's direct from the company, you are out of luck.

The Zohan

^^^What he said

Dingdongler

Thanks guys. I've defo found a retailer in Germany that sells at £1750, and I'm pretty sure the guys in Denmark that sell at £1500 are retailers, but might be retailers and distributors.

If they give me any grief and tell me to buy in the UK what should I say?

Paul, day off from handing out BNP leaflets?

Will

scarey

this is how we work, and our agreements with most of the dealers is that they have exclusive rights to sell our products in their country.

However, we do not have agreements with the general population of each company that they have to buy from that retailer. If they want to get it shipped from another country that's their choice, and does happen. the only thing we refuse to do is sell direct.

Of course this could differ from company to company.

scarey

forgot to say check how the warranty works. If you have a problem the UK dealer may refuse to handle it if you bought it from another country.

Dingdongler

Thanks Scarey. Yes warranty would be an issue, I can't see the UK dealer wanting to touch it if it went wrong. Its a very reliable piece of kit and worst case scenario I could send it back to Denmark if there was a problem. It may cost £100 there and back in postage but given the saving of approx £1200 thats no biggie really.

The Zohan

Yup, too right!

Please PM me your home address so myself and a few 'associates' can personally deliver yours