its because people are idiots. its business, if not a single person when and bought a £500 ps3 at launch, it would have dropped in price. for years we simply pay what they ask, so they keep asking for more.
there was recent a bluray standalone, on sony's own site for buying, the us store had it for $1000, it was £1000 on the uk site.
people routinely add on a higher cost if its to be sold in the uk. samsung mark up all screens that are to be sold in monitors in europe, same screens, same plant, shipped to same plants, made into monitors, the ones that go to europe have price increased. nothing to do with import costs. its our really really terrible way of doing business. wasting tax money by the bucketload, raising taxes all over, imports, exports, wage taxes everything. you constantly here about tax breaks to encourage imports and sales and for companies to establish new plants or offices. like amd just got 260mil in tax breaks for their dresden plants in germany, and also are getting big tax breaks to make a fab in new york state. as 1000's of other business's get. we somehow just screw everything up.
is the dollar still at over $2 per £1? you'd be mad not to buy something to be honest. though, does the ps3 go over the limit of undeclareable stuff, its only like £125 now isn't it? fairly big to sneak in.
