Michael, B & H photo in New York is about the lowest cost supplier in the USA, with no sales taxes when shipped out of New York State. Local camera shops can be 20% to 50% higher, before local sales taxes. I've heard that the price discounts for the small volume purchasers were very different and accounted for the price discrepancies. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:09:23 +0100, Michael Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends > > as you may know Switzerland is an rich but also expensive country. Thats > the reason why i'm working on different price comparison stories for my > newspaper. The next topic will be photo equipment. > > For example: There's a sigma lens 70-200 that's priced with 1099 Euro in > Germany and 1995 sFr in Switzerland. 1099 Euro are 1700 Swiss Francs at > the Moment. So The same lens is 17% more expensive for the Swiss than > for the German. > (This Situation is especially annoying in the city of basel, thats right > on the border to Germany) > > I wonder what would be a good - representative - lens to mare a > comparison? Do you have any suggestions? > Do you have official price lists of you contries in a digital form and > could you send them to me? > If you have interresting inside information about productions costs, > retail margins or the price politics, i'm listening. > > Please use my business email adress as CC or TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael Heim > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 078 615 19 88 > 061 271 66 48 > >
