Confirmed: German iPad prices

[colts]

German iPad prices

514/614/714 Euros (Wi-Fi)
614/714/814 Euros (3G)

German iPad prices

 

[Julien]

German iPad prices

Euros (Wi-Fi)
Euros (3G)

German iPad prices

WOW those are good prices unless the Euro keeps tanking.

 

[MRU]

Strange.. France & Italy are cheaper and from Apples Press release

http://www.apple.com/it/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html
http://www.apple.com/fr/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Strange.. France & Italy are cheaper and from Apples Press release

http://www.apple.com/it/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html
http://www.apple.com/fr/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html

Not strange. Every country as a different VAT.

 

[MRU]

Not strange. Every country as a different VAT.

Errr

FRANCE
VAT 19.6%

ITALY
VAT 20%


GERMANY
VAT 19%


You don't think that's strange 😉

 

[nexsta]

Steve Jobs: "Blame your government. Germany just added a new copyright levy for computers.

Response after being asked why the price is higher than in other european countries.

Source:
http://www.fscklog.com/2010/05/steve-jobs-%C3%BCber-den-preis-f%C3%BCr-das-ipad-in-deutschland-blame-your-government.html#comments

 

[nasa25]

Whoa. That's a lot of deutschmarks!

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Errr

FRANCE
VAT 19.6%

ITALY
VAT 20%


GERMANY
VAT 19%


You don't think that's strange 😉

What is strange is people smugly winking when they are wrong. Now technically I didn't phrase my earlier response to 100% accuracy and used "VAT" as a synonym for all taxes, so slap my wrist. But the spirit of my answer was 100% correct, that the price disparity is due to government levies.

Here is the above link translated in english.

 

[MRU]

Fairdos didn't know about German levy which like you say is not the same thing as VAT as you first indicated 😉