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UK Pricing seems to be £339/£379 (5X) - £449/£499/£579 (6P) That's the same numerical point, but gouged for living in the UK. The cheapest phone to purchase in
by diakritikal 11y ago
UK Pricing seems to be £339/£379 (5X) - £449/£499/£579 (6P)
That's the same numerical point, but gouged for living in the UK. The cheapest phone to purchase in the UK is about $515 dollars. Yeah, no thanks Google.
- nicktelford 11y agoYou're forgetting sales tax. US prices are quoted excluding sales tax (as it varies state-to-state), whereas UK prices include VAT (currently 20%): Excluding VAT, the UK prices are a bit closer to what you'd expect. As an example: The 16GB Nexus 5x, excluding VAT: £282.50 US price, converted to GBP: £249.65 So while there's definitely an inflation to the price, it's not nearly as much as it seems. Well, not until you realise that sales tax in most (all?) states is dramatically lower than the 20% we have in the UK. But we only have our government to blame for that.
- tfinniga 11y agoThat's a good point. There's also another issue - profits made outside of the US can't be used in the US without paying a separate US repatriation tax, which can be as high as 35%.