Thread: €599 vs $649
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Rauha is offline Rauha
2009-09-17 , 13:11
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This isn't in anyway unique to N900 or Nokia. American and european societies are built very differently as far as economics, social security and healthcare are conserned. Due to this there is allways large difference in price parity between USA and EU.

In Europe:

-18-25% VAT
-HIgher social security/national healthcrae/etc payments.
-Higher minium wages
-These don't count just for sale price. Also remember that the guy who delivers it to you door, hands it to you in shop, makes the advertisements in ad agency and so on. They all add extra costs.

(Don't wanna make this political, but i'll just want to say that (IMHO) it's a price worth paying)

Originally Posted by umberto_soprano View Post
this case I'll prefer to @#$% nokia than the system.
Nokia wll propably make same profit no matter where you buy it. You'll just @#$%: the german tax base and your fellow germans not being able to buy it from the states.


Originally Posted by umberto_soprano View Post
There's no written rule that these shall be the facts. From an european company I would expect something different.
Siemens Gigaset SL785 telephone:
136,95€ on Amazon.de vs 149.95$ (102€) Amazon.com


Adidas Goodyear shoes:
69,90€ on Amazon.de vs 49.57$ (34€) Amazon.com
Last edited by Rauha; 2009-09-17 at 14:12.
 

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