On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Graywolf wrote: > 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 > > > > 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? > > VAT?
I cannot see any of these statements (dollar or taxes) explaining why Pentax goods are unintuitevely more expensive in the UK that the competition (we are not comparing UK prices with US prices). Kostas
