Canon realizes that Americans need a price break since they subsidize prescription drugs for the rest of the world.
Here's a statistic to match yours. for every $US we pay for prescription drugs, the Swiss pay 65�, the UK 64�, Germany and Sweden 60�, France 51� and Italy only 49�. And a lot more money is spent on prescritions than expensive digital cameras. Unfortunately, it still doesn't pay to take a trip to Italy just to get a prescrition filled :( Top poster Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: EOS Canon Pricing Strategy I am becoming increasingly concerned at the way Canon expect the rest of the world to subsidise American consumers. Taking the new EOS 300D as an example, the price in the USA is set at 899 dollars. But they have also published the Japanese price as 120000 Yen, the European price as 1099 Euro, and the British price as 899 pounds. Converting these prices into dollars at the official exchange rate shows that the Japanese consumer is paying the equivalent of 1019 dollars, the European consumer is paying the equivalent of 1202 dollars, while the British are expected to pay the equivalent of 1419 dollars!! Note to Canon: 1 dollar does NOT equal 1 pound, and if you try to con us into paying inflated prices don't be surprised if British consumers find it cheaper to fly to the USA to buy at their subsidised prices!! Chris * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
