Taxes and Greed.
Luigi de Guzman wrote:
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:44, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Herb Chong wrote:
given that the US list price for the *istDs and the 300D are almost the
same and the street price is nearly so, what's up with the UK
distributor?
You hit it on the head Herb. Pentax is really overpriced in the UK.
Kostas
Yet another example of "rip-off Britain," eh?
What accounts for the huge difference in price in dollar terms? If anything, the UK price should be *lower* in dollar terms, given the relative strength of sterling against both the US Dollar and the Yen. I'm not aware of a tariff restriction, either, so why this difference?
-Luigi
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