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I bought a mini PC today. On the US website, it goes for $460, on the German website it goes for 360 euros or $420. But that price includes 20% tax so its actua
by nutjob2 9mo ago
I bought a mini PC today. On the US website, it goes for $460, on the German website it goes for 360 euros or $420. But that price includes 20% tax so its actually $335.
Prices for the same product are about 37.5% higher in the US. It's nuts and the reverse of how it used to be not long ago.
- omnifischer 9mo agoThe only thing I worry is DJT will ask Google Apple Amazon etc to impose a 10 % fee on sale in Rest of world to fund his bank accounts. In a sense I am happy. All empires decline. This will decline USA forever.
- adrian_b 9mo agoI was intrigued by what you have said, because I have also bought an ASUS NUC mini-PC today, in Europe. I paid EUR 510, which means $593. This is with all taxes included, so the price without tax would be about $490. I have searched now the ASUS mini-PC on Newegg, and its cost is $679, around +38.5% more expensive. This is wild, because indeed, until recently the price of electronics devices was significantly lower in USA in comparison with Europe, while now it is the reverse. This is not a "Made in China" mini-PC, which might have been affected by worse tariffs. Moreover, I have equipped the mini-PC with 32 GB DDR5 & 1 TB SSD, while cursing the more than triple price of DDR5 compared with last summer, so that now the DRAM has been more than a third of the price of the complete computer. This configuration has cost me the equivalent of slightly less than $900, without taxes. The same configuration has a price on Newegg of almost $1200.