How Come...

**j4y3m** · 03-04-2004, 11:44 AM

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** · 03-04-2004, 12:05 PM

different countries have different prices have different taxes have different everything, buy it at the cheapest place, get busy and move on !

**j4y3m** · 03-04-2004, 12:17 PM

Everyone should pay the same...

**hooked** · 03-04-2004, 12:18 PM

Originally posted by stupidguy@4 March 2004 - 12:17
Everyone should pay the same...

no, that wouldn't be good !

**Busyman** · 03-04-2004, 12:19 PM

The dollar is stronger?

**JONNO_CELEBS** · 03-04-2004, 12:21 PM

Same reason everything else is cheap everywhere but the uk

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'll get the same bloody thing for about 50p

Basically we in the uk just get hammered for tax on everything, I've spoken to people in other countries and I mentioned road tax........They don''t have it!

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

Ok I'm gonna be swearing about this all day now

Jonno B)

Edit: @Busy......Not at the moment it is'nt, we're nearlly $2 - £1