Trust predicament

[ColdCrystal]

Hello everyone.

I am hoping someone would help me with a practical advice.

 

We all know that the more socialist things get the worse things get, the more expensive things get, up until we end up like Venezuela - eating pets and street rats. 

Europe is highly socialist(and even ideologically totalitarian, there is no free speech), but not on the level of Venezuela due to the large and artificial debt-based economy. That gigantic bubble will burst and there will be collapse, it's a mathematical inevitability. Some EU countries already have negative interest rates(completely unprecedented) which should tell you everything. Nobody knows when exactly the collapse will occur.

 

Why am I telling you this?

Because a GTX 1080 costs on average 170USD more in Europe than in far less socialist countries like USA and Canada. This is a humongous difference.

So theoretically, I could get someone to buy the GTX 1080 in USA, test it to see if everything is in order, then I pay for it through Paypal and he sends it to me as a gift. I would of course cover the shipping cost.

 

The problem is, however, how could I find a trustworthy person, what would prevent someone from even lying about buying a new GTX 1080, and then telling me to send the money?

 

I'm sure that I'm not the only one to be exploring this option, due to hellish European taxation.

 

 

[AlTech]

4 minutes ago, ColdCrystal said:

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Europe is not socialist.....

[Dredgy]

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Europe is not socialist.....

Or totalitarian. And they have free speech.

 

Your lack of knowledge about how the world works will make it hard for someone in another country to trust you.

[ColdCrystal]

4 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Europe is not socialist.....

So, being taxed over 60% and having gigantic and dysgenic welfare states and bureaucracies is not socialist.

OK, you can go away now.

[AlTech]

Just now, Dredgy said:

Or totalitarian. And they have free speech.

 

Your lack of knowledge about how the world works will make it hard for someone in another country to trust you.

I am myself a European actually (If you must know, I have a French passport).

[kilgore_T]

11 minutes ago, ColdCrystal said:

 

 

We all know that the more socialist things get the worse things get

 

that's some opening

[ColdCrystal]

2 minutes ago, Dredgy said:

Or totalitarian. And they have free speech.

Oh, so that's why they lock people up in UK and Germany for posting wrong-think on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Jesus people, how out of touch are you? You never heard of the Orwellian "hate-speech" laws all throughout Europe?

 

Please stop talking about things you know nothing about. This is not the topic.

[Unimportant]

8 minutes ago, ColdCrystal said:

 far less socialist countries like USA

Far less? They've been playing catch-up for a long time now - they're not far behind.

The real reason computer parts are cheaper in the USA has to do with the fact that most international trade is settled in US dollars and the dollar had a rather substantial rally in 2014, gaining value against most other currencies. In short, prices in USD went down, prices in all other currencies went up.

 

[WereCat]

11 minutes ago, ColdCrystal said:

Hello everyone.

I am hoping someone would help me with a practical advice.

 

We all know that the more socialist things get the worse things get, the more expensive things get, up until we end up like Venezuela - eating pets and street rats. 

Europe is highly socialist(and even ideologically totalitarian, there is no free speech), but not on the level of Venezuela due to the large and artificial debt-based economy. That gigantic bubble will burst and there will be collapse, it's a mathematical inevitability. Some EU countries already have negative interest rates(completely unprecedented) which should tell you everything. Nobody knows when exactly the collapse will occur.

 

Why am I telling you this?

Because a GTX 1080 costs on average 170USD more in Europe than in far less socialist countries like USA and Canada. This is a humongous difference.

So theoretically, I could get someone to buy the GTX 1080 in USA, test it to see if everything is in order, then I pay for it through Paypal and he sends it to me as a gift. I would of course cover the shipping cost.

 

The problem is, however, how could I find a trustworthy person, what would prevent someone from even lying about buying a new GTX 1080, and then telling me to send the money?

 

I'm sure that I'm not the only one to be exploring this option, due to hellish European taxation.

 

 

We pay high taxes so the price difference makes perfect sense.

Also, you get something in return for the taxes so...

 

Socialist?

Totality?

what?

[ColdCrystal]

1 minute ago, WereCat said:

Also, you get something in return for the taxes so...

 

No, you don't get anything in return.

Everything you think you get, you would get on the free market for cheaper, with higher quality.

Holy shit, the ignorance on this forum.

[Dredgy]

12 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I am myself a European actually (If you must know, I have a French passport).

Sorry, wasn’t talking to you. Following on from you.

 

11 minutes ago, ColdCrystal said:

Oh, so that's why they lock people up in UK and Germany for posting wrong-think on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Jesus people, how out of touch are you? You never heard of the Orwellian "hate-speech" laws all throughout Europe?

 

Please stop talking about things you know nothing about. This is not the topic.

 

You made the topic not me. And I have a lot of business in Europe and have a masters in international relations and bachelor in political science. 

 

I’ve also actually read 1984.

[airdeano]

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