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In my experience, there's certainly some truth to the Apple tax, especially here in New Zealand where Apple products are sold through third party distributors w
by brianwillis 16y ago
In my experience, there's certainly some truth to the Apple tax, especially here in New Zealand where Apple products are sold through third party distributors who want to add their margins to the retail price. Dell and HP will both sell directly to you, which can result in their prices being lower.
In saying that, what often gets overlooked is the "Apple rebate" that you get when you come to sell the machine. This would be difficult to measure with any degree of accuracy, but in my experience Apple products tend to hold their value for longer than Windows machines.
- haribilalic 16y agoWhat about buying from the online Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/nz http://store.apple.com/nz)? How do the prices compare then?
- brianwillis 16y agoThose prices are the same as retail. To give you an idea of the markup, a 15" MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz costs US$2199 on the American Apple site. If it were sold for the same price in New Zealand it would cost NZ$2870. It actually retails for NZ$3799 (nearly NZ$1000 more).
- seb 16y agoOne reason: the US prices don't include any sales tax, while the NZ prices do.
- mattdw 16y agoThis. Exactly this. I once looked into getting a friend to get a Macbook from the US for me; by the time taxes were taken into account it was going to be no cheaper at all – and if I took my GST write-off into account, the US import would have been more expensive.
- bloodnok 16y agoAlmost this. $2870.00 * 1.15 = $3300.50 $3300.50 < $3799 (We have a 15% sales tax that also applies to items ordered from overseas over a certain threshold)
- YooLi 16y agoThat's the sales tax, not the Apple tax. :)