danco;287273 Wrote: > An individual making a purchase when in the USA would pay local sales > tax, but no shipping. >
Correct, but then they would need to get it shipped. > > An individual ordering from the USA would pay shipping, but usually not > sales tax. > They would need to find a vendor who would sell directly overseas. Most vendors won't do this and most have agreements not to do this with manufacturers. > > A distributor (and the retail price would be based on that) would pay > shipping, which might be quite small per unit when ordering several but > would not pay local sales tax when ordering from the manufacturer. > An interesting question. I believe for purchases within the UK (it's been a while since I was in retail) the distributor often pays VAT but it gets claimed back through a tax return. I don't know how this applies to overseas import/export. > > And the reviewer was more concerned with the cost compared with other > products (whatever one thinks of his choice of an alternative) than the > comparison with US prices. He was certainly equally concerned with both, he'll likely get no more Apple kit if he was buying both products in the US though as the overseas "markup" is pretty consistent between manufacturers. -- jaffacake ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaffacake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3206 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45734 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
