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OCUK why is it?

I thought i would throw petrol onto the flames and point out that the US PC market is not the biggest in the world anymore, it is infact the EMEA region.

Out of the EMEA region, the UK is (only just though) the 2nd biggest consumer of PC hardware behind Germany. At its current rate of growth the UK PC market could become the number 1 regional market within 5 years.

So in terms of raw purchasing parity, there should be no large overheads for imports due to the economies of scale when in comparison to the US market.

Although there are various reasons for higher prices the simple fact is that British people will pay the extra money for products they want.

Why? We are, in comparison to most of the World - totally loaded !!!
 
Gibbo said:
The only way to stop it is to make a stand of millions....
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A good start would be to make sure bloody Labour don't get back in next time round for yet more of their endless stealth taxes. Remember this is the party that got in on the promise of "no tax increases" then proceeded to raise them left right and centre.

The Tories were no angels but this Labour government are in a different league. Blair will go down in history as one of the worst things that ever happened to this country.

Anyone who voted Labour at the last general election has no right to complain about the cost of things in this country IMO.
 
Vertigo1 said:
A good start would be to make sure bloody Labour don't get back in next time round for yet more of their endless stealth taxes. Remember this is the party that got in on the promise of "no tax increases" then proceeded to raise them left right and centre.

The Tories were no angels but this Labour government are in a different league. Blair will go down in history as one of the worst things that ever happened to this country.

Anyone who voted Labour at the last general election has no right to complain about the cost of things in this country IMO.
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AGREED
 
Vertigo1 said:
A good start would be to make sure bloody Labour don't get back in next time round for yet more of their endless stealth taxes. Remember this is the party that got in on the promise of "no tax increases" then proceeded to raise them left right and centre.

The Tories were no angels but this Labour government are in a different league. Blair will go down in history as one of the worst things that ever happened to this country.

Anyone who voted Labour at the last general election has no right to complain about the cost of things in this country IMO.
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Not that i want to copy the guy above me.

But I also Agree :D
 
Vertigo1 said:
Anyone who voted Labour at the last general election has no right to complain about the cost of things in this country IMO.
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Or anyone who didn't bother voting at all! Statistically speaking doesn't that cover most of us now?
 
Vertigo1 said:
A good start would be to make sure bloody Labour don't get back in next time round for yet more of their endless stealth taxes. Remember this is the party that got in on the promise of "no tax increases" then proceeded to raise them left right and centre.

The Tories were no angels but this Labour government are in a different league. Blair will go down in history as one of the worst things that ever happened to this country.

Anyone who voted Labour at the last general election has no right to complain about the cost of things in this country IMO.
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Have to agree with this tbh.
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

You want better prices for products in the UK then complain to the government. Its all taxes.

The government take money out of your wage, your interest at the bank plus then they charge you taxes on everything you buy.

Because we all just sit back in the UK and accept it then they keep on hitting us with more taxes. I am outraged with the amount of money that gets deducted from my wage by the taxman and then to be further taxed on my savings and the items I buy is nothing short of a joke.

The only way to stop it is to make a stand of millions....
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At least you have a nice car...

some people don't even have their own home and have to eat cheap unhealthy food which combined with poor housing means they get more diseases and die younger - at least in this country they get medical treatment for that which is where a large part of those taxes go. In the US the average person has to have separate insurance plans for each member of their family which i imagine accounts for a great deal in the tax difference from there to here. Yeah Britain is poop for rich successful people but you are already rich and successful, and not all that extra cash that is stolen by the evil government gets wasted on speed cameras :)
 
what we need back is the BRITISH EMPIRE! its the bloody US fault that there paying so much less on goods, cause there (by nature) a bunch of arrogant (sorry if theres anyone here american...), self-indulgant, do-gooding and 'defending peace' when its just through there military that they have such low prices on petrol, give us petrol for this or we'll nuke your mother! stupid colonies, its there fault, they killed the british empire, therefore all the problems in the world currently rest solely on the colonies, and of course the queen for neglecting them :p BRITISH EMPIRE FOR THE WIN!
 
wannabedamned said:
Different Economy.
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Thats your answer, its not "rip off britain".

People don't seem to understand that although the dollar is currently at a ridiculously low level, so....

£100 is about $192-193

So....

Lets assume a GTX costs $599.....thats less than £350

OMG....you say?

Well no not really, we have a very high "sales tax" in the UK (17.5%), most the states in the US have a lower sales tax, we're getting ripped off!!! No, we have free healthcare and things like that they DON'T have.

Then there's their wages, because the dollar is worthless, it is actually more expensive for them to buy the card than it appears to us...

We do live in "rip off britain" for a lot of stuff but NOT computer hardware, its no more expensive than europe.

The US economy is also far larger than ours, they have many times more customers per store, they have lower wages for crappy jobs etc etc...bring in immigrants to do the poopy jobs, so they can sell cheaper etc etc etc...
 
Besty said:
I thought i would throw petrol onto the flames and point out that the US PC market is not the biggest in the world anymore, it is infact the EMEA region.

Out of the EMEA region, the UK is (only just though) the 2nd biggest consumer of PC hardware behind Germany. At its current rate of growth the UK PC market could become the number 1 regional market within 5 years.

So in terms of raw purchasing parity, there should be no large overheads for imports due to the economies of scale when in comparison to the US market.

Although there are various reasons for higher prices the simple fact is that British people will pay the extra money for products they want.

Why? We are, in comparison to most of the World - totally loaded !!!
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Its the biggest SINGLE market in the world

I don't know what the EMEA is, but I assume you mean europe?

Well although we'd all like to believe it europe is not a "single market" as the goverment would like you to belive, there's still a lot of restrictions, restricions cost money, and therefore your argument is invalid...

Language barrier\packaging? Population density? number of heads per store?

All those questions count against the UK, europes about as divided as you can get and can hardly be called a collection of states in one single market economy, the US is exactly that, (apart from alaska\hawaii obviously)
 
fini said:
All you people who use the phrase 'rip off Britain' I'd like to wring your necks!!
It's people like you with your uninformed attitudes that perpetuate that myth! :p

Britain is actually one of the cheapest countries in Europe for electrical goods (second cheapest IIRC).

EDIT: between third and first depending on what products you're talking about. Sweden can be up to 47% more expensive! Link

fini
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Sweden has a higher GDP...but I agree with you.
 
fini said:
I think people are also missing out warranties. IIRC their manufacturer's warranty is a minimum of 9 weeks whereas in the UK it's a year. The amount of things that break in that first year cost the manufacturers a lot extra - so they incorporate it into the price.

fini
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Warranty in the US is 90 days i think....
 
rayb74 said:
All you posters who say tuff just live with it I would like to wring your necks !!
It`s people like you with your weak attitudes that keep this country "Rip off Britain". :mad:
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No its programming from the late 1990s that keep everyone thinking we live in rip-off britain...

"rip-off" is a very british term, invented by unnspired tv programs and adotped by the masses of ignorant fools that don't realise its not like that anymore.

Blame...

Watchdog

And all those other sorts of tosh that only report half the story to bring in the viewers, just for entertainment in the guise of helping people out...pah yeah right.
 
Anyone remember "Short-change" kids tv proggie, pretty entertaining, but totally usesless if they actually were trying to save us money.

If you really wanna help the UK bomb the bbc building in london and save us £100 odd quid a year in a real tax, we're paying more and more, for more and more rubbish that we don't want.

...not to mention their totally biased tv reporting

Their worse than aljazerra....but instead of supporting their country to the hilt, they just rubbish it constantly and insult the viewers intelligence by not letting us make up our own mind...

...no wonder everyone moans about the war in iraq with them tools reporting the same thing day in day out....ooops bit ot... :o
 
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