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Originally Posted by Zabuton
LOL... how true. But I am apologising for my original, somewhat, harsh statement.
Sadly, EU currency strength today makes it pretty expensive to buy Cybook. I did a rough estimate of the costs, and found out it cost more than SGD700+ vs SGD500+ to purchase a Sony Reader from US(both include shipping).
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I originally wanted to buy a Cybook when it came out, hence my coming to this forum. I live in Switzerland and we have a VAT of roughly 8% with no ebook reader import taxes that I know of.
At that time, 1$ was 1.1CHF. The Cybook costs 490CHF with 65CHF shipping from France to Switzerland... In dollars that would be 410$ w/o VAT or shipping. With the current exchange rate, that would be more than 450$ w/o VAT or shipping. The first price is 14%, the second is 28% above US prices. The price seemed to be a mean of the EUR and $ prices.
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