Digital BW, The Print

Steve Kale wrote:

>Wish I had known that a while ago - I paid \ufffd1395 + 17.5% VAT + \ufffd50 shipping.
>UK Epson users need to set up some sort of complaint email to Epson....
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We better complain in Bruxelles that they should take action against the 
Epson pricing policy.
For the smarter replies: it doesn''t have anything to do with EC 
inefficiency or import taxes, it was the same with the 9000 models that 
were produced in the EC.

Sometime ago I wrote this on the wide format list:

It is as usual, Epson doesn't understand that the Euro total should be 25% lower than the US dollar total, instead they add 35% on top of the US price, counting the Euro-US rate another 25% goes on top, not mentioning the 19% VAT that consumers have to add.  Estimated price in Europe for the 9800 will be 6700 Euro excl VAT which is 19% in The Netherlands. The US price will be 5000 $ if the information is correct.

For a business this means you have to pay approx. 8437 US dollars in Europe. A European consumer pays twice the US price. This is ridiculous. Is this a secret plot to keep the dollar value higher?

http://www.fotografen.at/fachbereich/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=406

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