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Agent Li
Galactic Defence Consortium
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Posted - 2006.11.29 14:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Tintifish
Im just wondering how CCP can still justify charging 15 euros for european players, and 15 USD for American players. The Euro has just broken the $1.30 mark, meaning that European players are paying about $19.75 for an identical service to what those in the states are getting.
The difference is even more noticable when converted to GBP (im from the UK), because of it's current strength against the dollar. If we paid in USD we would be paying little over ú7.50, but paying Euros we are having to pay ú10.10. Over ú3.50 extra a month than are American friends??
It seems absurd that the price can be so hugely different for no reason other than location. No other MMO does this, most charging the $15 across the world, meaning even pricing.
How much of that is VAT?
I have a friend who is a doctor in Austria, and he always sends me his list of clothes to buy for his children, because the VAT has made things riotously expensive there - so I buy his childrens' clothes (with his money), and mail them to him.
Saves him about 75% on the cost of clothes.
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Agent Li
Galactic Defence Consortium
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Posted - 2006.11.29 14:55:00 -
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Originally by: Roemy Schneider
blame america for importing/cosuming more than they're producing. and they tend to live on credit. the dollar will definately erode more the next couple of years so we might aswell look for a US gtc seller ^^
Maybe you haven't read the news, but a lot of people in the UK live on credit as well. When I was in London this spring, it was apparently a major news issue - so many people carrying so much consumer debt that there is NO hope of even making the interest payments - in the UK.
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Agent Li
Galactic Defence Consortium
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Posted - 2006.11.29 15:12:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Wrangler
The difference in price is because of the VAT as a lot of people have already posted. 
As already said, VAT is only 17.5%. The price difference is almost double that.
The Iceland VAT is 24.5 percent, which is what they are required to charge EU customers, regardless of where the EU customer lives.
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Agent Li
Galactic Defence Consortium
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Posted - 2006.11.29 18:05:00 -
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Why does a person in the UK pay ten times as much for a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts as compared to a person in the US?
They're made on location - not shipped across the ocean from the US to the UK. So what is the reason?
Why are the Starbucks coffee cups in the UK smaller than the ones in the US - and you pay more for the coffee in any case?
Why did it take me a month to get a phone line installed in London - and another whole month to get broadband, when I got all of that installed in the US in three days?
Mmmm?
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