Play.com stopt!!!

Helaas.... het immens goedkope Play.com gaat stoppen met de verkoop....

Het zal nu alleen nog als verzamelsite van andere aanbieders gaan functioneren....

Play.com to shut down retail business after Channel Islands tax loophole for cheap DVD and CD sales is axed
Play.com is to close down its own retail business and operate solely as a marketplace for other firms
Jersey-based firm blaming the end of a tax loophole allowing cheap items to be sold to the UK VAT free from the Channel Islands
More than 200 staff will be made redundant from Play.com's Jersey base and offices in Cambridge and Bristol
By TARA EVANS
PUBLISHED: 13:08 GMT, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:17 GMT, 9 January 2013
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Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business and become solely a marketplace for other retailers from March.
The Jersey based company blamed the end of the Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) loophole which allowed items under £15 to be sold to the UK VAT free from the Channel Islands.
The move means it will no longer sell items directly to customers, instead it will allow other firms to sell goods via its marketplace which it launched in October last year.

End of the road: Play.com is shutting down its retail business and will only exist as an online marketplace
The company is making 147 staff redundant in Jersey as well as 67 in offices in Cambridge and Bristol.

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Around 200 jobs will be saved, remaining in its restructured company in Cambridge.
A Play.com spokesman said: ‘Following a strategic review of our business operations we have today announced a company restructure.
'Moving forward we are intending to focus exclusively on our successful Marketplace, which is our main business area, and to phase out the direct retail part of our business.’
‘We would like to reassure our customers that they can continue to shop with us, purchase from an expanding range of products, and still receive the great quality of service they have come to expect.’
The government first took action against the exploitation of the LVCR loophole in 2011’s Budget, reducing the amount at which items could be imported free of VAT from £18 to £15.
The new threshold took effect in November 2011 with the complete removal of the relief kicking in in April last year to give companies time to adjust to the new rules.
Play.com was sold for £25million in November last year, despite sales of £450million, to Japanese company, Rakuten.

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Dat wordt dus weer dure cd's kopen

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Op donderdag 10 januari 2013 00:42 schreef mschol het volgende:
het verbaasde mij uberhaupt dat ze zo lang erover deden dit te fixen..
jammer wel, play was een goeie zaak.,..

maar aan de anderekant: slecht dat je niet kan overleven zonder die taxcut...

thehut zal ook wel niet meer goedkoop leveren dan

Bij play.com kocht ik rustig 20 cd's per maand met zulke prijzen.....

Dat wordt weer zoeken naar een nieuw adresje....

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Op donderdag 10 januari 2013 01:06 schreef ClapClapYourHands het volgende:
Ik vind het eerder zielig voor die 200 personeelsleden die nu op straat staan.

Die openen zelf maar een topic



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