I'm just comparing some stuff here and it seems like if we traveled to the US on boat or some shit we'd be saving money.. I'm looking at a build here that I bought, all items off Amazon it came to a total of £850. Then I checked on .com and it came to $950 which is like £625. Anybody else face these problems?
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US has a lot of fat cunts who are willing to give their money to any whore bag company.
(Jan 6, 2015 05:10 PM)Mr Whiskey Wrote: If that's the case, why is the Euro more than $1? Error 404: Brain not found. That's why. inb4 Spoiler (Click to View) (Jan 6, 2015 05:27 PM)KFC Watermelon Wrote: Because you purchase things from China, and therefore you're converting USD into Yuan. When USD goes up, $1 will buy you even more Yuan. So things imported from China are much cheaper. You didn't really answer his question. No, most of PC hardware manufacturing is in Taiwan There is also the VAT tax and import taxes that European countries have. It's an absolutely insane high tax and it makes shit so much more expensive. New video games run at 100 AUS or more easily, when they're $60 USD in America Then again you should take into consideration Aussies earn more money than Americans. I doubt it's VAT. SB and IB used to be priced accordingly to US prices, with GST/VAT and import tax being included. Now most PC stores in Aus is charging $100 more than what it used to be. Its either pc stores being greedy, thinking 5% IPC increase is worth extra $100 or it could be Intel charging more per unit to their supplier. |
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