Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gadders 4366 days ago
I've not done it, but I always toyed with the idea of doing a tampon-equivalent of the Dollar Shave Club - i.e. get sanitary products emailed out every month automatically.
1 comments

i had this idea and found that there are lot of these.. its a tough one to get successful in because amazon etc are already big time in it, unless you can reduce the product cost itself.
Yeah. I had the idea of basing outside of the UK/EU to make use of the Vat exemption for small packages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT-free_imports_from_the_Chann...

The standard rate of VAT in the UK is 20%. Tampons are subject to a reduced rate of only 5%. Being based outside of the UK wouldn't save you much VAT.

Visit this page and scroll down to the 'Health' section: https://www.gov.uk/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-and-servi...