Yeh, it costs so much more to download software from a website in the UK than the US.
Lol. I'm not talking about software downloads. I'm talking about running a retail store, and running a business in that country.
Nice attempt though.
Yeh, it costs so much more to download software from a website in the UK than the US.
Best response ever.
Furthermore, this is what the EU should be doing (instead of worrying about Mac Pro fans). Well done Oz! I hope you get somewhere with this.
The same should be done in Brazil, where Apple devices are the most expensive in the world (and NO, this is not just because of import taxes and overall red tape).
Another one of the world's most overvalued currencies. Funny how that works so consistently, you'd think maybe that it wasn't totally a coincidence.
Therefore...Apple (or whatever company) looks at their $1999 model in the USA and figures out after a pure currency conversion that it's going to sell for $2075 in Australia...and Apple doesn't like that number...Apple is either going to sell it in Australia for $1999 Australian money or $2099 Australian money or some other "99" Australian money. Period. End of story.
Actually it's always been like that - there is no linkage to the overvaluation of the Brazilian Real, which has considerably fallen in value over the last six months at least.
Besides, my example in terms of car prices applies even when production is totally local - the same cars, produced in Brazil, still sell for at least double in Brazil than in places like Argentina or Mexico.
Call it welfare defined as "willingness to pay" - or call it an imperfectly informed market where a sizeable part of the population still agrees to pay such high prices (the same, to a lesser extent, happens in Switzerland).
So how does this work when $1US right now = $1.03AU?
That means the iMac at $1999US should = about $1946AU, so round up to $1949 or $1999...
Basically right now (and it's been this way for a couple of years) the Australian currency is worth MORE than the US one. There for prices before taxes should be less, especially considering our hardware has less distance to travel from their Asian manufactures.
I think you will find that in Norway, Apple doesn't accept US dollars.
And you'll probably find that all the consumer protection laws in Norway don't come for free.
Please define what you think "price gouging" means?
Get this. From Adobe website: Photoshop CS6, in the US, US$699. In Australia, AU$1062 (excluding tax).
You don't need to pull a calculator out to know that is price gouging.
So, yeah, Apple are doing okay in Australia, but hope the government comes down like a ton of bricks on Adobe.
Lol. I'm not talking about software downloads. I'm talking about running a retail store, and running a business in that country.
Nice attempt though.
Ever see the ridiculous mains connectors the Brit's use?
An industrial size plug like that, not benefitting from economies of scale (in design, test, manufacturing, logistics, documentation and certification) deserves a price penalty... The rest is probably due to having to be delivered in RHD vehicles.
right since the computers are made in China...I think Australia and China are a bit closer than China and the USA
Ridiculous. It's called a free market. We don't tell you how to price your fosters.
The other reason is that they can. If people don't want them they don't have to buy them. A similar case reached the supreme court in the U.S. when Microsoft was sued for selling their OS for over a hundred dollars when it cost less than a dollar to produce the cd it was sold on. When he got up in front of the Supreme Court, his reason was "because I can."
There's a $110 difference between a 2.6Ghz 15" MacBook Pro Retina between countries excluding tax.
There's a $380 difference between a 12 core server Mac Pro.
As the others have said, we in Europe pay a lot more than the Aussies and nobody complains. The base iMac (21,5") costs 1.513 USD in Romania (without tax [24%]) compared to 1.299 in the US. There is no official Apple store here, only resellers, every one of them adds a premium price (about 100$), so we basically pay twice. Still, nobody complains.