How Come...

[j4y3m]

On amazon.com I have to pay $38.99 for it but on amazon.co.uk
I have to pay £65.59 which is $119.884, my point is how come
americans get things a whole lot cheaper? <_<

[hooked]

different countries have different prices have different taxes have different everything, buy it at the cheapest place, get busy and move on &#33;

[j4y3m]

Everyone should pay the same...

[hooked]

Originally posted by stupidguy@4 March 2004 - 12:17
Everyone should pay the same...
no, that wouldn&#39;t be good &#33;

[Busyman]

The dollar is stronger?

[JONNO_CELEBS]

Same reason everything else is cheap everywhere but the uk :rolleyes:

Did you know that Off-Liscence shops have 300% Duty on a bottle of wine?
Think about it like this
They buy it for £2, they put profit on (approx15% on wine) £2.30 , then the duty = £9.20 for this bottle of wine which should have cost you less than £3, yet in France you&#39;ll get the same bloody thing for about 50p <_<
Basically we in the uk just get hammered for tax on everything, I&#39;ve spoken to people in other countries and I mentioned road tax........They don&#39;&#39;t have it&#33; <_<

We the British people are just scammed the whole time and aparently the UK is in debt............HOW?? <_<

Ok I&#39;m gonna be swearing about this all day now :angry:

Jonno B)

Edit: @Busy......Not at the moment it is&#39;nt, we&#39;re nearlly &#036;2 - £1 :D

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[100%]

Ever heard of the BigMac Index?
Bigmac costs
usa-2.54
SouthAfrica-1.17us
sweden-3us
singapore-1.6us
japan-2.57us
India-1.22us

http://www.apesma.asn.au/students_graduates/common/images/big_mac.gif

[j4y3m]

Could I import the dvd&#39;s I want to buy from amazon.com to save money? :lol:

[Livy]

yeah, read it somehwere the other day.

bloody taxes. :angry:

[Livy]

Originally posted by stupidguy@4 March 2004 - 12:36
Could I import the dvd&#39;s I want to buy from amazon.com to save money? :lol:
only if ur dvd player can play region 1 dvds

[JONNO_CELEBS]

Yes but their postage is horendous, if you buy like 20 dvd&#39;s it works out really cheap :)

Jonno B)

[j4y3m]

If I use my Action Replay MAX on my PS2 it plays dvd&#39;s from all regions...

[JONNO_CELEBS]

Yup, but thats being really tight cos you can get a multi region DVD player for £40 now anyway :)

Jonno B)

[j4y3m]

Yeh I think my dvd player is multi region but I don&#39;t know. :P I&#39;m just gonna buy t from he uk one anyway, maybe they cost more bcause britishpeople have more money than americans...

[TARPD]

Originally posted by JONNO_CELEBS@4 March 2004 - 12:45
Yup, but thats being really tight cos you can get a multi region DVD player for £40 now anyway :)

Jonno B)
:01: woohoo chaep as asda dvd players are better than expensive sony ones :01:

[TARPD]

Originally posted by Zedaxax@4 March 2004 - 12:32
Ever heard of the BigMac Index?
Bigmac costs
usa-2.54
SouthAfrica-1.17us
sweden-3us
singapore-1.6us
japan-2.57us
India-1.22us
Britain-3.44usd

http://www.apesma.asn.au/students_graduates/common/images/big_mac.gif
:angry:

is it true that 90% of the price of petrol is tax?

[JONNO_CELEBS]

British people have more money? How the hell did you work that out? :blink:

btw, as a helpful hint, just compare prices at http://www.play.com and http://www.towerrecords.com

Between the 3 of them you should find the cheapest price, but Play.com is in Jersey so there is no Next day del, takes about 3 or 4 days and they pretty good :)

Or spend £68 on a dvd burner and hire the movies you want and copy them :)
Brand new dvds cost me £2.75 :D

Jonno B)

[Spider_dude]

Originally posted by JONNO_CELEBS@4 March 2004 - 12:54
British people have more money? How the hell did you work that out? :blink:

btw, as a helpful hint, just compare prices at http://www.play.com and http://www.towerrecords.com

Between the 3 of them you should find the cheapest price, but Play.com is in Jersey so there is no Next day del, takes about 3 or 4 days and they pretty good :)

Or spend £68 on a dvd burner and hire the movies you want and copy them :)
Brand new dvds cost me £2.75 :D

Jonno B)
surely this is highly illegial?

[Adster]

tell me why then Aussies have to pay &#036;7 for a DVD/r/w each and &#036;5 for a DVDr each and &#036;1.40 each for a CDR

not to mention a 1.5 MB Connection (*The highest you can get here and if your Lucky enough to be teh 25% of people that it is available too ) for a &#036;250 a month deal not to mention with a cap

you think UK is bad??? :lol:

[TARPD]

Originally posted by Adster@4 March 2004 - 14:00
tell me why then Aussies have to pay &#036;7 for a DVD/r/w each and &#036;5 for a DVDr each and &#036;1.40 each for a CDR

not to mention a 1.5 MB Connection (*The highest you can get here and if your Lucky enough to be teh 25% of people that it is available too ) for a &#036;250 a month deal not to mention with a cap

you think UK is bad??? :lol:
who cares? youre all criminals anyway :P

[Adster]

Originally posted by TARPD+5 March 2004 - 00:04--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TARPD @ 5 March 2004 - 00:04)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Adster@4 March 2004 - 14:00
tell me why then Aussies have to pay &#036;7 for a DVD/r/w each and &#036;5 for a DVDr each and &#036;1.40 each for a CDR

not to mention a 1.5 MB Connection (*The highest you can get here and if your Lucky enough to be teh 25% of people that it is available too ) for a &#036;250 a month deal not to mention with a cap

you think UK is bad??? :lol:
who cares? youre all criminals anyway :P [/b][/quote]
:o

[j4y3m]

Originally posted by Adster@4 March 2004 - 13:00
tell me why then Aussies have to pay &#036;7 for a DVD/r/w each and &#036;5 for a DVDr each and &#036;1.40 each for a CDR

not to mention a 1.5 MB Connection (*The highest you can get here and if your Lucky enough to be teh 25% of people that it is available too ) for a &#036;250 a month deal not to mention with a cap

you think UK is bad??? :lol:
if you&#39;re talking AUD then £2 for a dvd/r/w isn&#39;t bad... neither is 50p for a cdr... the highest normal people can get in the uk is about 2mb... but it might be a little cheaper

[Adster]

Originally posted by stupidguy+5 March 2004 - 00:11--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (stupidguy @ 5 March 2004 - 00:11)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Adster@4 March 2004 - 13:00
tell me why then Aussies have to pay &#036;7 for a DVD/r/w each and &#036;5 for a DVDr each and &#036;1.40 each for a CDR

not to mention a 1.5 MB Connection (*The highest you can get here and if your Lucky enough to be teh 25% of people that it is available too ) for a &#036;250 a month deal not to mention with a cap

you think UK is bad??? :lol:
if you&#39;re talking AUD then £2 for a dvd/r/w isn&#39;t bad... neither is 50p for a cdr... the highest normal people can get in the uk is about 2mb... but it might be a little cheaper [/b][/quote]
yeah when where talking UK money i am lost and confused might explain why I failed economics :huh:

[TARPD]

a quid is about &#036;1.80 us... i think


how much is a bigmac in aussie land?

[j4y3m]

http://www.hausheidi.com/currency.htm

1.00 GBP = 2.42855 AUD

£1 = &#036;2.50

[Adster]

Originally posted by TARPD@5 March 2004 - 00:16
a quid is about &#036;1.80 us... i think


how much is a bigmac in aussie land?
a big mac meal is about &#036;7.50

not sure about it separately

[NikkiD]

Originally posted by Adster+4 March 2004 - 09:54--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Adster @ 4 March 2004 - 09:54)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TARPD@5 March 2004 - 00:16
a quid is about &#036;1.80 us... i think


how much is a bigmac in aussie land?
a big mac meal is about &#036;7.50

not sure about it separately [/b][/quote]
AUD is almost the equivalent of CAD... 1 AUD = 1.00267 CAD

&#036;7.50 for a Big Mac combo is blasphemy&#33;&#33; (even though I don&#39;t eat a Mickey D&#39;s)

It&#39;s &#036;3.99 for the combo here.

[jetje]

Originally posted by Busyman@4 March 2004 - 13:19
The dollar is stronger?
That&#39;s not it the US Dollar is at an all time low compared to european euro and the british pound...

Maybe it&#39;s time to make a virtual currency, the KLD (KL Dollar) that would take away a lot of currency differences... If yes who make a tabel with currency ratings. Something like 1KLD= &#036;1,5 or €1,3 :unsure:

[Canti]

I assumed the higher prices in GB were due to import costs..
What about the pricing of domestic items? Are they cheaper?

[TARPD]

i just remembered big mac meals start at £3.50

7.50 aud = £3

hahar take that we are ripped off more than you :(