Cheating possible by choosing non EU country

Sorry to butt in, I would like to share my opinion about this. No check is 100% effective in preventing cheating. A customer could use a US proxy and enter United States, thus providing two matching (and fake) pieces of evidence, and skipping VAT altogether. With Hola and other services it just takes a minute to do that.

Hi Guy,

I’ve made a new release now, addressing the self-certification issue (though, Diego’s point is fully valid: essentially, if someone lies once, they can lie twice) – please do test it carefully, as it involved significant changes in the logic for the display of the self-certification question. I will be installing this latest release on my own shops, but you should still test the self-certification logic again yourself.

I will close this item now. If you find a problem, then please file a support ticket at https://www.simbahosting.co.uk, as this is a premium-only item and doesn’t belong on www.ads-software.com.

Best wishes,
David

@diego: I’m well aware that you cannot prevent cheating with this.
But legally – in case you would have legal fight – it’s a big difference, if someone actively states “yes, I’m from this country” by clicking somewhere – or if the country is prefilled and he just clicks on buy – then he might claim he didn’t see the preselection.

At least in Germany this makes a big difference – legally. Not technically.

@david thanks so much to implement the additional check. We can all only do the best we can to avoid any dissuasions coming due to this ridiculous and not well-thought-out law.