2024-09-21T18:28:33Z https://nostr.now 123vier https://nostr.now/npub1lqdqwl759wv6nsfcqpgukwhq57zcur8ctxs3ratfym8z6qn5s9xszu2n7p https://nostr.build/i/p/5218p.jpg https://nostr.build/i/p/5218p.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsralqzrem0c6ayx34a20ujtptduessratg8z54dlw5pvnl2n7e8vqzyrup5pml6s4en2wp8qq9rje6uznctrsvlpv6zy04dynvutgzwjq56fw7ltl Getting sicker everyday of shit like this <br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qqsttp4n0mdctz9c3zv4acm5u3advjexct807wwe078hzyt0uxghk5qzyr8r4yjnaqvy4s3tjy8d09hzp6qpwp9kjzynt42ej0m8zx748rspxqcyqqqqqqge5n4ez" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…n4ez</a></span> </div> As of 12 August, 21rebel no longer ships to the European Union. Not by choice.<br/><br/>The EU's new packaging regulation took effect that day. Because we are registered outside the EU, we count as the "producer" in every member state we ship into — all 27 of them. That triggers three separate obligations in each one:<br/><br/>Registration in that country's packaging register. It cannot be delegated and it cannot be shared.<br/><br/>A contract with a licensed system operator there, plus annual volume reporting and recycling fees.<br/><br/>And an authorised representative established in that country, paid, who carries the liability.<br/><br/>Twenty-seven registers. Twenty-seven contracts. Twenty-seven representatives.<br/><br/>Here is the part that decides it: these costs are per country and per year, and they do not move with volume. One parcel costs the same as fifty thousand. There is no small-seller threshold. The UK wrote one into its rules. The EU did not.<br/><br/>And since 12 August we cannot even register in Germany on our own any more. A seller without an EU establishment is required to go through a paid intermediary. Compliance is not merely expensive, it is gated.<br/><br/>Germany was our largest market by a wide margin. Most of what we sold, we sold there. As of today we are locked out of it — not because anyone objected to our products, our packaging or our conduct, but because we did not hire a representative.<br/><br/>The single market was supposed to abolish exactly this: a hand held out at every border. The hand is back. It just isn't called customs any more, it's called an authorised representative. Twenty-seven of them, each with an invoice.<br/><br/>Call it what it is. Highway robbery, with extra steps.<br/><br/>None of this bans small sellers. It prices them out, and hands the market to whoever is large enough to absorb twenty-seven parallel bureaucracies. That is not a drafting accident. It is what happens when you write rules with no floor and call it a level playing field.<br/><br/>Still shipping: Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the United States, and the rest of the world.<br/><br/>We are working on a way to serve Germany again. We will say so here when it is done, not before. </blockquote> 2026-08-13T15:44:14Z