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Originally Posted by Klim Chugunkin
... but mainly because our russian and european customers complained about too low prices in US compared to Europe.
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Well, we - the customers-living-outside-USA - have been complaining about outrageous price differences for ages. Not with the aim to rise prices for our American comrades, but with the aim of getting fair prices ourselves.
I could understand higher price in Europe if the $%^&#!!! device was manufactured in USA. But with devices that are made by Ukrainian company and manufactured in China?!?
Until recently, the only answer we - the customers-living-outside-USA - ever got was like,
- You have better health-care (well, perhaps my health-care is *cheaper*, but I am not sure it is better ;-) And do not dare to talk to Ukrainians about better health-care )
- You have better infrastructure that requires more taxes
- You have higher VAT (ignoring the fact that even considering the 20% VAT the difference is still outrageous)
- Everybody else bends European customers over the barrel, so why shouldn't we?
Then came Amazon and their K3.
This is not about display that has a teeny bit better contrast. This is about the same price Amazon has for American, European, Australian (!!!), Japanese customers and everyone else.
(not that they do not charge outrageous $2 surcharge for every single e-book sold through the Kindle, even if it is WiFi-only model, but I am ranting about prices of readers at the moment)