So? The Canadian dollar is now worth $1.07 US. But prices haven't changed here, we still pay a $5 - $15 premium for books, cards and magazines, a ~40% premium for audio equipment, and a car costs about $10 000 more here.
It turns out that the exchange rate has very little to do with pricing. Things are priced at what the manufacturer feels the market will bear. That doesn't make it right, but that's how it is. Europe is more expensive to do business in than the U.S. due to taxes and bureaucracy - so is Canada. You can get a Squeezebox here off the U.S. website, but the extra charges will easily add $100 to it. The worst is "customs and brokerage", it seems this is a random number - there have been times I haven't been charged anything, but once it was $50 on a $200 US order. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39979 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
