Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> writes: > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:46:38PM -0500, James "Xakh" Lynch wrote: > > > I'm sorry, that last post really read like an advertisement. The Nanonote, > > as sold by Sharism, one of the official partners of Qi-Hardware, sells the > > device for about 99 dollars American. Tuxbrain sells them for quite a bit > > more for some reason. > > I guess the reason is to get some profit out of them? > > I bought my NanoNote from TuxBrain and I didn’t mind the price > difference: here in Italy we’re used to this sort of thing, prices in > USD are commonly converted to prices in Euros without taking the actual > exchange rate into account. I believe this is because of VAT, which is > 21%: so the price is really ~ $120, which translates to ~ €90, much > closer to the €99 price point TuxBrain is asking.
This is the sort of thing that I meant--we don't have VAT, in the US. Depending on what specific US state the buyer and seller are in (and if they're in the same state), there may or may not be some state-specific sales tax (for example: Massachusetts imposes various taxes on different types of goods, including sales tax, so `$99' for something like a Nanonote is really more like $106 there; New Hampshire (the next state over) doesn't have sales tax, so `$99' is really $99); advertised prices in the US generally *do not* include applicable taxes, however. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
