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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by cycomanic on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:02AM (#24885972)
I've been wondering about these things for a quite a bit. One thing is that prices in the US often get advertised without VAT, while in Europe it's included and once you factor that in many things are not that different. But in some product areas there is a huge discrepancy, and it's often US-based companies who have very big differences between US and European pricing.

I often notice it when US people complain about some price for a European product and I then look up the prices in the US out of surprise, because the US-company competitor is the same price in Europe. It then shows that the US and European prices of the European product are the same, while the US-company product is a third or more cheaper in the US than Europe (I have recently seen this with bicycles and trainers). Not sure if there are some tax or duty type reasons for this?

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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by ksec on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:57AM (#24894776)
Well most of these comparison are not done thoughtfully enough. And in the age of Internet everyone somehow expects pricing to be the same around the world.

Price + Import Tax + Sales Tax + Exchange Rate with Hedging + Additional Coverage ( Such as Legal Requirement for Fixing within certain time ).

That is basically the formula Apple use for their product pricing. Apple gets the benefits of having economy of scale. For many other products, you will need additional cost for Distribution for each country in Europe, Operation Handling, difference packaging for certain items. All these could easily add up to additional 10-20%. You now end up having a price that is 30 - 40% more expensive than US listed price.

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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by Causality1 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:30AM (#24886550)
You can't factor in VAT to make the prices the same because Americans don't pay VAT.
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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by stkdump on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:49AM (#24886682)
Americans usually (I think) pay sales tax, unless they are in one of the very few places that doesn't have them. A VAT is just a version of a sales tax that is harder to evade.
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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by lotsofpulp on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:46AM (#24887135)
It’s almost impossible to do a straight comparison of taxes since the level of services is buys you from different governments is different, and each government (in American states and European countries) divvy up the taxes in varied ways between income, property, sales, tolls, and probably a whole bunch of other ones.
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Re:Acer’s First Chromebook with Snapdragon 7c Is Ultraportab... by Causality1 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @12:34PM (#24887510)
Sales tax exists in some states but not all. It's also less than ten percent. In my state the PS5 costs $535 after tax while in the UK it costs $587.
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