iPod touch UK prices suck!!!

[gazfocus]

Ok so just a rant, but why on earth do UK customers always get stung with Apples crap pricing?

The 8GB Touch is $229 (£115) in US but its £169 ($340) in the uk!

This sucks big time!

 

[Fuzzy14]

It's improving, historically Apple used an exchange rate of $1 = £1

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Ok so just a rant, but why on earth do UK customers always get stung with Apples crap pricing?

The 8GB Touch is $229 (£115) in US but its £169 ($340) in the uk!

This sucks big time!

do not forget you need to add you VAT tax. that $229 does not have any tax added to it

 

[gazfocus]

do not forget you need to add you VAT tax. that $229 does not have any tax added to it

Ok, but even going by UK's tax of 17.5% it still makes it $269 compared to the $340 UK customers are expected to pay

 

[voxnj]

Part of the answer probably lies in your Import Tariffs -- a throw-back to Colonial Days. By the way, we want our Stamp Tax payments back! (Just kidding)

 

[Aea]

From my short time in London everything seemed more expensive, although charging 25% more for the same product after taxation seems a bit excessive.

 

[slybeans]

Your calculations are off, the pound doesn't double the dollar anymore.

 

[gazfocus]

Your calculations are off, the pound doesn't double the dollar anymore.

well ok, but it's not far off is it? Isn't is something like $1.85 = £1? You try working that out during a rant 😛

 

[TEG]

You are forgetting that the UK is screwed for most things. Something that cost $5 here costs £5 there. This has been true for decades. At least Apple is curbing the prices a little bit. Plus I believe that there are import fees to the UK since either the US and UK don't have free trade, or China and UK don't have free trade, or both.

TEG

 

[Tourist]

well ok, but it's not far off is it? Isn't is something like $1.85 = £1? You try working that out during a rant 😛

$1.75 = 1 quid and falling,

so $229= £130 + VAT 17.5% = £152.75

£169 is only about 10% more than the US price