Inconsistent pricing on the internet.

Narj

Narj

Narj

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Welcome to the internet $ to £ conversion. The price is usually cheaper across the water. It's the unpublished exchange rate. If you don't like don't buy.
 
If you use paypal you can convert £ to $ and then when you make the transaction from the us site you might be able to pay the reduce price, as long as there is no physical delivery because customs will just add on enough charges to make it not worth while. It might be illegal as well. You would have to lie about the country that you are in etc in order to purchase it in dollars i think.

I didn't know people purchased workstation :P
 
groen said:
I didn't know people purchased workstation :P
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Haha, need it for work stuff so has to be legit. I'm toying with using VirtualBox instead but VMWare has some nice features IMO (plus I could use the 3D accelleration to play old games that won't run on Windows 7 too :p) - plus I'm not sure how stable some of the OSs will be on VirtualBox - I know VMWare works fine.
 
PianoBasher said:
Hi all,

I'm a bit confused about some pricing online.

VMWare Workstation 8, which I'd like to buy...

UK: £155.83 inc VAT
http://store.vmware.com/store?Actio...etailsPage&productID=166452200&src=paidsearch

US: $199.00
http://store.vmware.com/store?Actio...are&id=ProductDetailsPage&productID=221027300

How does this work? 199USD is £122GBP roughly. Even adding 20% VAT to that still comes to ~£146.

Am I being stupid missing something here, and can I just buy it in USD? :)
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You forgot:

a) The US prices are exclusive of State sales tax where applicable which can be up to 10%
b) There is import duty as well as VAT to pay on imported products, which is another roughly 10%.

So all things considered thats actually a pretty good deal.
 
[TW]Fox;21772257 said:
You forgot:

a) The US prices are exclusive of State sales tax where applicable which can be up to 10%
b) There is import duty as well as VAT to pay on imported products, which is another roughly 10%.

So all things considered thats actually a pretty good deal.
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Fair enough - I knew there had to be something I wasn't taking account of. Forgot duty, but does that actually apply to downloads, seeing as you're not importing anything physical?
 
[TW]Fox;21772257 said:
You forgot:

a) The US prices are exclusive of State sales tax where applicable which can be up to 10%
b) There is import duty as well as VAT to pay on imported products, which is another roughly 10%.

So all things considered thats actually a pretty good deal.
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Of course the Sales tax could also be 0% depending on where you live. ;)

There isn't always import duty, the goods I import have no duty attached to them, just VAT.
 
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