Re: [APML] IDAS LPS filter

["ashtoreth" <ashtoreth@ashtoreth.com>]

No, it isn't the government taxing imports.
The import duty is around 6%.

It's Meade and/or the importers. From what I've heard, Meade mainly. Sheer
blind greed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Anderson" <georgea@cam.org>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] IDAS LPS filter


> 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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