Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:21:56 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD+RW Message-ID: <3C7FE2E4.854A2F57@centtech.com> References: <3C7F80DC.B63138D8@centtech.com> <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> <3C7FD67E.F3812F58@centtech.com> <20020301195506.GC2147@raggedclown.net>
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Ahh.. well, that makes all the difference. I didn't know you were not in the US. There are people trying to tax internet sales here too, but I think it will flop - too hard to manage and control. Eric Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:29:02PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > I don't think $400 is insane.. but, everyone has their own limits.. > > > Mmm, you must remember that all things computer related are > much much cheaper in the States than in Europe. In Holland where I live > most things have 19% Tax on them..what I think is called sales-tax > in the States. The EU are even now discussing proposals to put such a > tax on things bought on the Internet. I purchased online a copy of > Partition Magic Version 7.0 from the States, and it cost less than 50% > of what it costs in a shop here...they want to stop that (I am not > exactly sure how they can do that...but they will try). Unfortunately > you cannot do that with harware because it has to go through customs > controls. > The change to the Euro currency in a large part of Europe has also > caused magical price increases. A laptop I bought in December, has > magically gone up in price by about 10% since January, at a time when > I read PC sales are almost at an all time low worldwide. > > Doing a rough dollar conversion in my head I think the cheapest DVD > writer I have seen was around $900, but that was some months ago. > > -- > Regards > Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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