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Originally Posted by PocketGoods
Don't be so angry about our prices.
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I am not angry at your prices. Honestly.
I even stopped my previous comment before I started rambling ;-).
If I wanted to get angry I would have to ask why it is that USA distributors [obviously] get wholesale prices that are so ... different.
I am seriously confused here, with the entire, complex system of charging European customers more. I do not know why it is so. Perhaps the cost of doing business is really that much higher here (In which case I should start directing my ire towards bureaucrats in Brussels, or politicians sitting in our parliament), perhaps everybody charges more just because European customers are used to being ripped off. Or, most probably, it is a combination of all those factors and some others (like longer warranty (but warranty is the same for PB on both sides of pond)).
If there is somebody *at PocketBook* I should be dissatisfied with, it would be guys at headquarters in Kiev. They are the ones that decide what to sell and where and for what prices. They are the ones that promised firmware features that didn't get delivered.
It baffles me, for example (I am not angry ;-) because I am not shopping for a new reader at the moment) why there are no new PB360PLUS models for sale in Europe. Is there disagreement between guys in Kiev and guys in Germany? Do they want to sell the entire stock of "good old" PB360+ before introducing new models? In the meanwhile the new Nook Touch looks very interesting [:evil laughter:] (I wish I wasn't so spoiled by phenomenal firmware features in my PB)
Imagine, how many readers would you be able to sell if the cost of one modest reader was higher than the Average Monthly Wage in your country.
Have a look, at the average salary in Ukraine
http://en.ura-inform.com/economics/2...plsred?nocache - and take into account that those are very optimistic estimates. Minimum monthly wage is 625UAH - 78USD. And do take into account that they pay substantially higher income taxes than you do. Yet, in Ukraine they sell PocketBook readers for higher prices than in USA (half a world away)