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Why is the 1800X £500? $500 should make it ~£400?
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one of the things I hate most about the USA... listed prices (even in fast food joints) don't include any state taxes... so often the price you see may not be the price you pay.
Its also a regular point of contention on forums where people go on about Intel/ Nvidia/ AMD etc etc ripping of customers when price differences are often down to currency changes and taxes
Its also a regular point of contention on forums where people go on about Intel/ Nvidia/ AMD etc etc ripping of customers when price differences are often down to currency changes and taxes
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Thanks for clearing that up. Sad though. 
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Thanks for clearing that up. Sad though.
Is it? It's the price we pay to live in a country with good infrastructure, free health care at the point of consumption, free or subsidised education and social safety nets. I for one don't begrudge paying it.
Don't be sad, us peasants have been paying taxes for 1,005 years, so don't worry about it lol.Thanks for clearing that up. Sad though.
What we need is a peasant revolt like in 1381, get the pitchforks out and demand lower taxation. 
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It's nothing to do with Brexit.
Not quite, because of enormous government waste.
If the government didn't waste money, it could afford to reduce VAT to zero and not have a single effect on any services.
It is somewhat - lot of electrical goods prices are up a bit due to the uncertainty over it all and companies making a bit of money while they can.
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It isn't Brexit which has affected the Pound's value compared to the Dollar. It's the perception of the Pound's value. As it turns out, the pound was overvalued. Look at the fluctuations in the year before the Brexit vote.
Borderline irrelevant the exact reasoning, the pound lost 15/20% of it's value against the dollar the day of the Brexit results, therefore the Brexit result caused it.
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Wrong.
What caused the £'s fall was it's overvaluation.
The Brexit vote was merely the shock which caused the traders to realise this.
If there had been no Brexit vote, then the £ would have lost it's value anyway, since the underlying factors which caused its fall would still have been there.
If the Brexit vote had caused a drop, then it would have rebounded back in short order when everyone realised that it was merely the Brexit vote which caused the fall and not anything else. See the FTSE value since Brexit for details of this.
More confusing...
They're made in China aren't they? Sure it shows that on the chips I've seen.
Surely it's cheaper to deliver to anywhere in EU including UK, because there are roads all over the place, whereas to the US, you need huge boats...
Ooh, conspiracy.
/shrugs
They're made in China aren't they? Sure it shows that on the chips I've seen.
Surely it's cheaper to deliver to anywhere in EU including UK, because there are roads all over the place, whereas to the US, you need huge boats...
Ooh, conspiracy.
/shrugs
Source?