PC vs amiga pricing in the 80s and 90's. Were PC owners getting screwed?

[Iggy]

VAT is tax.

Unlike European nations the US has no national sales taxes like a VAT.
And a few States like my own don't have a State sales tax.
And, as was pointed out earlier, by buying from a company outside your home State you can avoid sales taxes entirely.

Of course we in the US know that a VAT is a tax, we've just been lucky enough to keep our federal government from trying to enact such a tax.

[Hattig]

Compared to the prices of the AtariST and Amiga to the Amstrad, to me it's clear the Amstrad people were ripped off as wel.
-edit- unless.. of course it came with a monitor...

Yeah, the CPCs came with a monitor.

[smerf]

Hi,

I have been with the IBM PC's ever since 1982 when they first came out, seeing that a floppy disk cost about $595 and a 5 meg hard drive cost about $1000 (999.99) I don't think that PC owners where getting ripped off, I think that they were just plain stupid.

smerf