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It's not true that it's hard. For Europeans, buying from Bitstamp.net is not harder than your typical online store experience. However, there seems to be some kind of problem with verifications currently, which is a separate problem. (I guess they are rate-limiting for some reason)

I'm not from Germany, but Netherlands. But your point stands if you're talking about everywhere outside UK/US.

Local bitcoins.

From Russia (and Ukraine perhaps) it's like very straightforward too. You just set up a btc-e.com account and send in cash via Qiwi.

There are a lot of local services mentioned in the comments, so it seems. If there aren't in Netherlands why don't you create one?

Why is the price so high above the norm on Bittylicious ?

It's not hard in Germany either if you use Bitstamp.