On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:26:37PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Michael Chaney wrote: > .. > > Not to taunt you with our lower prices in the US, but I bought an Asus > > A7V over a year ago for about $150. It includes firewire, Gig-E, USB 1 > > & 2 (the fast "2"), 6-channel audio, SATA, Promise IDE RAID controller > > for the first IDE controller, etc. I believe at the time I paid around > > $150 for the CPU, too (1.45GHz Athlon). Anyway, the A7V series is a sweet > > desktop board. > > > > Anyone know why the prices are so high in the Philippines? > > the prices here aren't high. > Almost a year ago my brother bought a 1.6GHz Athlon, it cost about $120 > or so.
Sounds good, but I've been in the Philippines 3 times over the last 5 years, and each time when I compared prices they were 20-30% higher (just going by straight exchange rate) than US prices. It's not just computer components. I remember seeing a Sony Playstation 2 for P25,000 when it was $250 here. That's double the price. It must just be because the market is smaller, but you'd think that with the trade agreements it would be, if nothing else, similarly priced. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
