[APML] OT: import ripoffs

["Blair Batty" <bbatty@nseaa.com>]

> While we're on the subject off rip off costs in europe but namely
> the uk where thankfully we still have our own money. I was
> looking at buying a MEAD  6" LXD55 for viewing only in the us
> mag's it was something like $695 so i figured @ an exchange rate
> that seems to work in reverse i'd pay £895 in the uk actual
> exchange rate would make it around £500 but no in the uk we have
> to pay £1295 or $1900 so if i take off taxes at 17.5%  I am
> paying $900 or £600 to have the manual translated from american
> into english (yeah right) and shipping to the uk  a flight across
> the pond is only £250 if you look around. so i asume that each
> item shipped from the states is hand delivered by a mead employee
> with his wife.;-) this is not just mead it applies to everything
> we use to be able to see a $ price and assume same numbers but in
> £  now it's see a number double it, multiply by the suppliers zip
> code, divide by the flight number, and add the fist number you
> thought of.  sorry for the rant

Actually the English dealers will be importing it
at wholesale prices; so import duties etc are much less,
and the markup much more!

Sincerely
Blair Batty



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