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Not sure why you're downvoted. There is material difference in prices of electronics due to whatever reason (taxes, warranties, low scale, etc) to the degree th
by tgma 2y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. There is material difference in prices of electronics due to whatever reason (taxes, warranties, low scale, etc) to the degree that my European friends often purchase laptops and iPhones when they travel to US.
- throwaway2037 2y agoDo those products have worldwide warranties? Often not. That is a real issue with buying electronics outside your home country.
- xp84 2y agoThey usually don't, but that only strengthens their point. People are choosing, instead of paying a European price and getting a very long warranty, to pay a cheaper US price even though they likely won't even get the benefit of our awful 1-year or 90-day warranty.
- WalterBright 2y agoAnytime you get something "for free", you're paying for it one way or another. No amount of legislation can change that, they might as well legislate pi=3.
- dacryn 2y agothose times have long been gone. Warranties were not the driving factor, but taxes and exchange rates. Today, the price difference is negligible on most hardware (smaller than $50 on MSRP on an iPhone if you compare New York to Paris for example)