From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 12:22: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A6037B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:22:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g21KM0K10164 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:22:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05109 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 14:22:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7FE2E4.854A2F57@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:21:56 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD+RW References: <3C7F80DC.B63138D8@centtech.com> <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> <3C7FD67E.F3812F58@centtech.com> <20020301195506.GC2147@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- > > 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