Thanks for the tip.
Shopping around some swiss internet price comparisons does reveal
competitive prices. Let's see if I can get something organized...
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At Logitech's site, CHF2999.
But don't forget, if you get it shipped to the EU, you will have to pay
EU taxes (which are much higher than Swiss taxes).
Tom
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things like
http://www.preissuchmaschine.ch/product_388105.html
look much more encouraging than logitech.
Of course I'm aware of duties. But then again Switzerland features or
is quite near many a decent vacation destinations...
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As noted above, this topic has come up before with similar explanations
posted for price differences.
funkstar;278361 Wrote:
Basically it comes down to several factors:
1. Incresed taxes in the EU compaired to the US
2. Increase in the cost of doing business in the EU, meaning the markup
has
slimkid wrote:
Thks for taking time to think about it without resorting to cynical
personal attacks. However, I'll have to ask you to review your facts.
It turns out that, in Switzerland, employer tops up by 100% whatever
amount emplyee have to contribute, and then some more.
I've said this before in other similar threads - why do you expect to
get the best price from the official store? That doesn't happen for
anything else so why for logitech? If I want to buy some gadget the
absoloute last place I'd look for a deal would be the manufacturers
online store, unless
My grievance started from the fact that price in the official store in
Germany is over a thousand dollars higher than in the US. It still
escapes me why Logitech think this is a good idea.
Unfortunately I could not find a retailer in Germany that makes a
substantially better price. The Swiss
- what are typical social benefits (wellfare, unemplyment, sick leave,
We pay taxes for those. The employer doesn't pay (at least not in
Switzerland).
retirement rules and funding ...)
Also employee paid.
In general, Swiss taxes and benefits are lower than the US,.
So, the only reason
T;278677 Wrote:
- what are typical social benefits (wellfare, unemplyment, sick leave,
We pay taxes for those. The employer doesn't pay (at least not in
Switzerland).
retirement rules and funding ...)
Also employee paid.
In general, Swiss taxes and benefits are lower than the
Have you looked up the price in Switzerland? IIRC it was rather cheap
there - I think it was about £900, which is even lower than the US$
price. But you gotta find a dealer who has stock.
This issue irritated me so much I bought a competing product (albeit
one that give SD a SB3 sale). From
Does anyone but Logitech ship Transporters from US to Europe?
At the current exchange rate you can buy them in the US for 1300 EUR
while Logitech sells them in Europe for close to 2000 EUR.
I'd consider one for the first price, not for the latter.
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ElFishi
This has been covered in numerous threads in the past.
Basically it comes down to several factors:
1. Incresed taxes in the EU compaired to the US
2. Increase in the cost of doing business in the EU, meaning the markup
has to be higher
3. They can charge more so they do. Simple business sense.
1. VAT e.g. in Germany is 19%, even if the TP was priced w/o VAT it
brings the price only up to 1500.
2. Logitech is a European company, what is the extra cost of doing
business here?
3. Openly discriminating against groups of customers alienates them. To
me that's the opposite of business
Although tax and economies of scale for the larger unified US market are
factors, I think the difference is more a function of the extremely weak
dollar at the moment and the level Logitech have to pitch the
Transporter to sell it in the US (although my Euro calculation from the
UK price is
Just looked it up on the logitech site. TP goes for 1399 GBP, which is
currently 1830 EUR. Maybe I should just pick one up there.
Coming back to my initial question: The price differential is real, is
there anyone capitalizing on it?
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ElFishi
This question comes and goes from time to time. What nobody seemed to
have addressed so far are corporate taxes and cost of doing business.
Without getting into it too deep, just a couple of questions for people
in various economies:
- what is a typical length of paid vacation and other
Actually I just wanted to know whether there is somebody to pick up the
money from the price differential. Or put differently: where is
globalization when you need it?
As for slimkids questions:
I pay for my extensive annual leave by accepting crap pay.
I pay for my social benefits by having
slimkid wrote:
This question comes and goes from time to time. What nobody seemed to
have addressed so far are corporate taxes and cost of doing business.
Without getting into it too deep, just a couple of questions for people
in various economies:
- what is a typical length of paid vacation
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