US residents have an extremely good offer from a partner reseller that EU and UK and AUS and everyone else can't redeem.

The level of disparity is significant enough that I believe it requires discussion and justification.


If you buy PLEX from CCP and billed in the UK, it would cost you $145. (-ú90) So 6 PELX for $75 is actually stiffing UK players (and other Euros) for very nearly double the price.

But, but, but taxes... right?

Umm.. no. UK VAT at 20% (which is questionable as lots of "electronic services" are not charged VAT - would need a specialist who knows)
$75 amazon 6 PLEX (-ú46)
+ VAT (-ú9.20)
= -ú55.20 or $88.42

So where's the other $56 dollars and change go? Fifty six dollars? That's a lot.

People mostly don't mind when regional variations are small and justifiable (like an extra few bucks in taxes) but when one region is being screwed over with no logical or valid reason, people get angry.

Amazon has international presence - if you're going to partner with them, ensure they provide the offers to your customer base - which is international. Why does amazon.co.uk not have 6 PLEX offers up for -ú49.99? Or amazon.de for 56 Euros?

CCP made great efforts with re-balancing account billing so that geographically diverse regions pay roughly equivalent in local currency for their subs. So there's no excuse for this.

The collectors edition suffers the same thing - being equivalent of $50 more if you live outside the US.


Not very fair is it?