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Originally Posted by issybird
I think tubemonkey's point, and he can correct me if I'm wrong, is that comparing pre-tax prices in the US and UK is even less relevant than comparing pre-tax price in the US to price with VAT in the UK. At worst, the US customer will pay half the VAT rate, so the average price paid in the US will be closer to the pre-tax price than close to the UK price after VAT.
*shrug* I've mentioned upthread that there's no sales tax in my state, so the comparison with after VAT price is absolutely valid for me. And I see a lot of cars with Mass and Me plates (and farther afield) in the parking lot at the local Best Buy, too. My sisters ship their stuff to my house, and so on.
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Perhaps other people are comparing US and UK prices for their own reasons.
I compare them to see if the UK price is 'reasonable' - that is, whether Amazon are making significantly more (or less) from a UK sale than from a US sale.
The current UK price is roughly what one gets by converting the US price to Sterling and then adding VAT. IMO that's reasonable.