Originally Posted by Gormond:
“This is misleading.
The Kindle Touch 3G comes in 2 flavours in the USA with one being subsidised with adverts which gets you a $30 discount.
If you compare like for like you get excluding VAT:
USA - $189 or £117.33
UK - £140.83
Which means we pay 26% more and not over 70% more as the thread title suggests.”
Not too surprised. The UK is a little high maybe but I've seen so many either side of a $=£ exchanges over the years. Sometimes I've seen the same item in a European currency (esp pre Euro) with a bigger gap. Each market is different, it depends on many things - labour cost, market size etc. Yes, this is unfair, it's the swings and roundabouts of living in different countries. I'd happily pay more for the benefits of UK over US however, I realise not everyone will feel the same !!