Bye Bye Cabelas!

breakemall

After circa 20 years as a very satisfied customer, I logged into my Cabelas account today to order a few bits for the coming season only to get the message "Unfortunately, due to the compliance cost associated with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are no longer accepting orders from customers with a shipping or billing address within European Union member states".

Ah well, all good things must come to an end?

Sparks

Translation : "We were doing shady stuff with your data, selling it off to who-knows-whom so you'd get a metric ton more spam than you want, so you could be flagged on various lists, and so on; the GDPR means we could be charged about ten grand sterling per person even if that person suffered no harm as a result of this; we're not willing to give up our revenue from selling data and we can't even change our system over fast enough to avoid a deadline we had two years notice of, so we're shutting down instead".

So... good thing had a wee little asterisk in this case methinks.

juice1304

If its noting to do with firearms or parts then just use a Proxy and a reship service.

breakemall

There was always a catch or two (the risk of excise and vat being some) but their selection was unmatched.

Using a proxy for the delivery is an option, but how do you bypass the billing address issue?

gunhappy_ie

Sparks wrote: »

Translation : "We were doing shady stuff with your data, selling it off to who-knows-whom so you'd get a metric ton more spam than you want, so you could be flagged on various lists, and so on; the GDPR means we could be charged about ten grand sterling per person even if that person suffered no harm as a result of this; we're not willing to give up our revenue from selling data and we can't even change our system over fast enough to avoid a deadline we had two years notice of, so we're shutting down instead".

So... good thing had a wee little asterisk in this case methinks.

My translation "reading between the lines" into this has always been:

"We dont give 2 sweet f**ks about your money as we continue to make millions in the US. Have a nice day"

juice1304

breakemall wrote: »

There was always a catch or two (the risk of excise and vat being some) but their selection was unmatched.

Using a proxy for the delivery is an option, but how do you bypass the billing address issue?

online prepay credit card

Sparks

I dunno about how viable that approach is in the long run gunhappy - limited liability companies are a very focussed class of thing and the EU economy is bigger than the US one. The downside is that the EU has more safeguards for customers so it costs more to do business here, hence them taking short-term stances like that one.
But in the end, if there's a commercial demand...