jvd said:
YEP. absolutely outrageous. not only we get things months anfter u people, but we have to pay more for them as well..... even DVD's.... i mean come on UK£19.99 for a DVD is ridiculous....
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YEP. absolutely outrageous. not only we get things months anfter u people, but we have to pay more for them as well..... even DVD's.... i mean come on UK£19.99 for a DVD is ridiculous....
in france we used to talk of the "dollar informatique", because when you bought something that was sold 100 dollars in the US (so something about 700 francs) it was sold about 1000 francs here...
now we have the euro but same thing.. someting that is sold 149 dollars in the US is sold is sold 199 euros while 1 euro = ~ 1 dollar...
anyway it is due to a lot of factor, including VAT which is 19,6 % (!), the distribution that is structured differently (more ppl in the process so it costs more money)..
with our so much costly state it's sad to feel poorer and poorer because of taxes ever increasing year after year...
now we have the euro but same thing.. someting that is sold 149 dollars in the US is sold is sold 199 euros while 1 euro = ~ 1 dollar...
anyway it is due to a lot of factor, including VAT which is 19,6 % (!), the distribution that is structured differently (more ppl in the process so it costs more money)..
with our so much costly state it's sad to feel poorer and poorer because of taxes ever increasing year after year...
But if they sold for more in the U.S it'd sell there too, it'd just sell less. So to answer your question, they should drop the price to sell more. We have no idea how well consoles would sell in Europe if they were competitively priced with the U.S.
19.6%?, and I thought our VAT of 17.5% was bad.
VAT : value-added tax
DEFINITION:
Value Added Tax (VAT) is a general consumption tax assessed on the value added to goods and services.
It is a general tax that applies, in principle, to all commercial activities involving the production and distribution of goods and the provision of services. It is a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on companies. It is charged as a percentage of price, which means that the actual tax burden is visible at each stage in the production and distribution chain. It is collected fractionally, via a system of deductions whereby taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) can deduct from their VAT liability the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities. This mechanism ensures that the tax is neutral regardless of how many transactions are involved.
DEFINITION:
Value Added Tax (VAT) is a general consumption tax assessed on the value added to goods and services.
It is a general tax that applies, in principle, to all commercial activities involving the production and distribution of goods and the provision of services. It is a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on companies. It is charged as a percentage of price, which means that the actual tax burden is visible at each stage in the production and distribution chain. It is collected fractionally, via a system of deductions whereby taxable persons (i.e., VAT-registered businesses) can deduct from their VAT liability the amount of tax they have paid to other taxable persons on purchases for their business activities. This mechanism ensures that the tax is neutral regardless of how many transactions are involved.
jvd said:
VAT is the tax that is applied to every purchase basically. every country has it, in italy they call it IVA, here in the UK it's VAT, i thought it would be the same in the US....
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