obrienk;241349 Wrote: > Still though, to get back on topic - it seems to be standard practice > for US companies to replace the dollar sign with a euro sign when > selling goods over here. Even with the VAT and duty this is still more > expensive & can only be down to the companies greed, and our reluctance > to do anything about it.
Is there really such a difference? The SB3 is £160 ex-VAT in the UK and $300 which is around £143 in the US. I think £17 can easily be explained by shipping costs, the admin and other charges associated with exporting and by the economies of scale enjoyed servicing a massive local market versus smaller foreign markets. In any case, greed is a somewhat pejorative word. Companies operate on free markets and every company charges what any local market will bear. It's how free market capitalism operates and companies owe that obligation to their shareholders (the owners). We don't have to like it, but it is how things work. -- Fifer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fifer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=639 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39979
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