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International Apple Stores

Re: VAT this, VAT that ... blah, blah...

Originally posted by Tue12
Europeans are a messed up bunch, I gotta say. Fun, but messed up. :) I mean really, you guys expect to legally only work 35hours a week -that is, during the 4 weeks of the year you not on strike or on your utlra-long vacations- while at the same time you expect to have full medical insurance, social insurance, education and labor unions that border on facism/communism. All the while complaining and surprised that you have to actually pay for it with your VATs, high tariffs and 80% income taxes.

The English are wackoo to - they don't even consider themselves European, so why should I ;) - but atleast we respect them. Everytime there's some military butt-kicking to do they're right there with us despite the fact between the whole lot of them they can barely afford a cruise missle to shoot. :p

Did I mention your women lousy in bed. Surprising, since they're so 'easy' they must get around a lot...

I'm just poking fun, guys. :p :D

Spent three years in L'Aquila, Italy; loved it. I'm a Eumarican, practically. :)
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Re: VAT this, VAT that ... blah, blah...

Originally posted by Tue12
Europeans are a messed up bunch, I gotta say. Fun, but messed up. :) I mean really, you guys expect to legally only work 35hours a week -that is, during the 4 weeks of the year you not on strike or on your utlra-long vacations- while at the same time you expect to have full medical insurance, social insurance, education and labor unions that border on facism/communism. All the while complaining and surprised that you have to actually pay for it with your VATs, high tariffs and 80% income taxes.

The English are wackoo to - they don't even consider themselves European, so why should I ;) - but atleast we respect them. Everytime there's some military butt-kicking to do they're right there with us despite the fact between the whole lot of them they can barely afford a cruise missle to shoot. :p

Did I mention your women lousy in bed. Surprising, since they're so 'easy' they must get around a lot...

I'm just poking fun, guys. :p :D

Spent three years in L'Aquila, Italy; loved it. I'm a Eumarican, practically. :)
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Oh yeah.. as if the Swiss here strike... Yeah oubiously.. and pigs fly.

We don't have this minimum-maximum hours bull****.

Macs are also tres chick here, cause not very many people have them, but the swiss go for the look of the iMac, and amazingly Compaq's seem to outsell Dells... :S

The great thing about switzerland is, that you can find tons of other mac people that speak english, because of the diplomats.
 
only 10 miles!

hiep hiep hoera! as we call it here.

This store is only 10 miles from where I live!

I'll visit the store often but probably not buy anything there. Some Apple dealers here are a lot cheaper than the Apple online shop. I guess prices in the online shop and in the 'realworld' shop are the same?
 
Apple Stores in Holland

According to dutch site MacFreak (http://www.macfreak.org -in dutch only, sorry-) there are to be three new apple stores in Holland. Ton van Garderen van Apple NL said that those stores would be demonstration- and salespoints. They are to be located in the 'Arsenaal'-stores of famous dutch interior designer Jan des Bouvrie. The stores are manned personnel of (and owned by) HTR Apple Center (formaly known as HTR Mailing). Apple NL hopes it gets more salespoints through this action, but also hopes to get the Mac out of the IT-atmosphere and more into the livingrooms of people, hence the location of a interior design shop.

> DidotCicero
 
fred anderson said in the latest conference call that apple "has no plans" of building any international stores. Either he's lying or he doesn't know what he's talking about.
 
Hey, it's not a real AppleStore

Please note that there's a difference between the AppleStore(s) (as owned by Apple Inc.) and Apple Centers and a like, which are NOT owned by Apple.

The three new stores in Holland are manned by and owned by dutch company HTR Apple Center, not by Apple Inc. or Apple NL. The three new stores are more or less based on the 'store in a store'-concept.
Just see it like a showroom/salespoint of a regular apple dealer, but on a different location (in someone else's store, in this case an interior design shop)

So Fred Anderson is not lying and does know what he's talking about.

> DidotCicero
 
Too bad...

The fact that the Dutch store is just a "store" or shop-in-shop,
but absolutely no real "Apple Store", was a disillusion to hear.
Allbeit that the "Bouvrie" outlets are very high-brow locations.
Just take a look: http://www.jandesbouvrie.nl/

The Dutch management team told us that they had no idea
how the message evolved from "retail scoop" to "Apple Store"
(Macsites were already showing pictures of possible locations).
But the thrill and enthousiasm must have given them the clue
that an Apple Store would be a very much applauded decision.
On the other hand, I think all local resellers have given them
a very uncomfortable cut-throat feeling too, these last days...
Bypassing their exclusive resale agreement would be harsh.
(The Dutch on-line Apple Store has non-competitive prices.)

Peter Villevoye
 
That's the article that was written before official press release was released (which was on July 17, article was written on July 12).

These are the facts:
• Three Apple 'points of sale' will be opened on September 1st in the Netherlands.
• They are located as a store-in-a-store in the "Arsenaal Stores" of dutch interior designer Jan des Bouvrie, in the cities of Naarden-Vesting, Grave en Schiedam.
• They are manned and operated by AppleCenter HTR.
• The shops will carry the same complete range of products as on the online AppleStore.

This info comes directly from mr. Ton van Garderen,managing director of Apple NL

(source: http://www.macfan.nl -in dutch only, sorry-)
 
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I must say that there IS some specialists in Australia who live and breath Apple. Awave is one of them (http://www.awave.com.au), who specialize in Apple and Pro Audio. They offer very personalized service and turnkey solutions foe evrything Apple and Audio.
 
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