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Originally Posted by Lexicon
VAT accounts for about half of that difference, Sony will claim that the warranty and increased costs of trading in UK account for the rest - it's BS but enough buyers accept it for the excuse to work. The gouging isn't as bad as I feared (I fully expected a £250 minimum price) but let's not pretend it isn't going on.
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It's not "gouging". It's a simple fact that it's more expensive to run a business in the UK than the US, so prices are generally higher. We have a completely different tax system to the US.
We gain in other ways, however. For example, the Reader only has a 90 days parts warranty in the US (or at least that was true with the 500 - don't know if the 505 is any different); in the UK, British law requires at least a 1 year warranty.