Thread: Buying an N900 from the US, to use in EU
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2009-10-26 , 15:06
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
In US it costs 583 USD without sales tax.
Sales tax varies from state to state.
i guess i was in the wrong here.
thought the amazon prices are including tax, like in germany.

Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
If we add 20% sales tax [...] we get 700 USD,
which is according to Google 465 EUR.
This means the Nokia N900 is 135 EUR in USA
when comparing Amazon.com with Amazon.de
that's still over 20% of the whole price.
for me that is still a big difference.

thanks for the link. so it's not as bad as it seemed to me.
guess i was in a bad mood, too.