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Why do we Europeans have the short end of the straw.. stick.. thingy?
DarkGamer7
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I love The Sims 3. But why is it way more expensive over here? The game in Euro's is just as much as the game is in Dollars, except that the value of the Dollar is lower so we Europeans end up paying more for it in the end.
1 euro is 1.27 Dollar. So if we made 40 euro of that, it would mean that we pay 50,80 dollar for it. Why is that?
1 euro is 1.27 Dollar. So if we made 40 euro of that, it would mean that we pay 50,80 dollar for it. Why is that?
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Yea, I've just started to expect it, practically all games are expensive here.
Cottage cheese costs more in Israel than in Wisconsin too, but that has nothing to do with the currency rate.
I gather it might have something to do with distribution, but I thought the games were published by a reigon's EA sector? All my games seem to have 'EA Australia' on them...
It could have something else to do with GST here too, and inflation.
1. The US Dollar is the world's reserve currency
2. Y'all have a value added tax
don't tell the coppers!!11
Funny
And now I'm thinking of buying the games abroad in the future.
And people here whine about the US state tax rates...where I am it's 6%. It was 5% when I was growing up and there was a big fuss when they raised it.
I might be wrong but I think it is 19% here.
In Denmark it's about 45 - 50 %, so don't you ever whine!
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and to think that I thought 7% is too much
I figure the higher price is due to shipping and import tax or something along those lines.
Yet in reality , the game cost just as much "of an impact" to us , to you
see here
http://store.enmasse.com/store/tera/DisplayHomePage?resid=Tz-lQQoBAlUAAG2Q@4MAAABC&rests=1340203795226
https://shop.tera-europe.com/splash
the thing is this company decide not to change the prices so much but that's because it was design one type of game to one distributive company while the other one to a differences distributor.
they dont expect people to buy games from US as it's not their regions * but these are digital* so much less of an impact, while EA is the company who made it and distribute's it, well that's the price they would stick to o.o
What a coincidence you are dutch
Anyway I bougth the games on Intertoys but on V and D was much more expensive and I was like :shock: because in Portugal the prices are the same. Good thing I had an Intretoys store next to my house :P
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Haha, awesome! Great to hear you had a great time here. I would love to visit Portugal myself someday. V&D is pretty expansive yeah.. I guess one valuable tip here is to always compare prices. Toy stores are usually cheaper. Oh, the way we Dutch roll regarding money.. Haha.
I wonder if the price would be different if purchased on Amazon, then.
Now see...it depends in which state as to tax rates. Here where I live, it depends on what you have (property taxes) and what you're buying. Sales tax is 6 percent, but we have a tax on how many trees we have on our property. So, technically, it's to the point they are taxing the air we breathe.
As for the price differences found in other countries... You know, that's just wrong. I agree that it's unfair you are charged more.
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Yup - I've had this discussion before in another thread where people seemed to think all the discs were imported from the USA. People sometimes assume that because their discs are manufactured in a certain country, everyone's are. Not true!
I don't know about other European countries, but here in the UK, our discs are manufactured in Salzburg (judging from the German written on the CDs, and the fact it's one of only two Sony DADC locations that produces discs in the EU, and the only one where German is used). So the difference in cost isn't because we're too far from the USA, haha.
I really had a nice time there, everybody was so nice to me always trying to make me feel like home. Someone even lent me a bike so I didn't have to go on foot to work. I was realy impressed with the dutch, and the older people that could speak english so well. In Portugal older people can't speak english
I visited Haarlem (where I was living), Amesterdam, Roterdam, Den Haag, Keukenhof and Zandvoort. My favourite was Den Haag :P
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