Re:PlayStation4 will cost 2,000 dollars in Brazil
by vonuebelgarten on Thursday October 17, 2013 @02:05PM
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As a Brazilian, I see these factors (not only for PS4, but for all imported items and some domestically manufactured too):
- Insane taxation ('nuff said);
- Primitive transport infrastructure (bad roads, don't ever try to put something expensive into the postal system (it will be destroyed by mishandling or simply stolen), etc.)
- Dysfunctional economy (change rates float wildly, government manipulation, etc.).
- Inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy (Trying to open a company? Good luck. Trying to close it? Prepare for a nightmare. Needing a permit? Sit and wait, but some public servants may ask money to "speed the things up");
- People are used to pay insane prices for a lot of items (electronic devices, cars, faucets and other bathroom metals (seriously), a housing bubble building up for some years, etc.). This is a major factor, btw. Even there is no real reason for keeping the prices high, they don't fall because people still paying.
- Insane taxation ('nuff said);
- Primitive transport infrastructure (bad roads, don't ever try to put something expensive into the postal system (it will be destroyed by mishandling or simply stolen), etc.)
- Dysfunctional economy (change rates float wildly, government manipulation, etc.).
- Inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy (Trying to open a company? Good luck. Trying to close it? Prepare for a nightmare. Needing a permit? Sit and wait, but some public servants may ask money to "speed the things up");
- People are used to pay insane prices for a lot of items (electronic devices, cars, faucets and other bathroom metals (seriously), a housing bubble building up for some years, etc.). This is a major factor, btw. Even there is no real reason for keeping the prices high, they don't fall because people still paying.