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Originally Posted by HarryT
Don't forget that the European price includes the Dutch VAT rate of 19%. The US price (obviously) does not.
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If the dr800sg will be sold for 399$ in the US, as officially announced by Irex in one of their press releases, then for us Europeans would be more convenient to import it from the US rather than to buy it here in Europe.
399$ at the current exchange rates are about 275€, adding VAT, import duties, etc. (about 35% of the initial price) we get something like 370€, much less than the 499€ Irex is selling the DR800s in Europe.
I think that this high price difference can only be explained by the existence of a subsidizing agreement between Barnes & Noble and Irex.