Re: [APML] IDAS LPS filter

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

Tony

Part of the price gouging is probably Meade, the other half is your own
Gov't protecting the UK telescope building companies by taxing imports.
I ran into the same thing here in Canada years back when I wanted to buy
the mechanism for a analogue sythesizer keyboard. There was one canadian
company manufacturing a similar product so the import taxes were right
through the roof, the canadian built keyboard was for a 2 manual organ
so it had an insufficiant number of keys. The gov't wouldn't listen to
my argument, the book said import tax of 28% end of story. All it takes
is one guy grinding lenses or mirrors for reproduction telescopes or the
like and the industry is present and must be protected.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health
There is no such thing as gravity, the earth sucks


tony.floyde@lineone.net wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Tony Floyde
> Belive it or not from the uk

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