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

[Franko]

I know amiga upgrades were pricey, but is there something I am missing, or was PC owners just being robbed?

No... they weren't getting robbed they were just folk that were too dumb to realise the Amiga was the better machine and deserved to be ripped off...

[Franko]

Isn't that still the case? European prices still always seem to be higher than in the US. Then there's VAT adding to the cost.

The brother-in-law in Portland Oregon was always telling me to buy this pc or that pc for such and such a price (instead of the mac) till I emailed him the costs of what the ones he recommended were in the UK compared to what he could get them for in the states...

He couldn't believe the difference in prices, anywhere from £100 to £300 dearer here in the UK compared to the prices he told me they were in the USA...

Don't you guys in the USA have to pay any kind of VAT or TAX on computers

[Franko]

@ Pyro & DCAmiga

That wouldn't work very well here if they tried that in the shops, if folk here got to the checkout only to be told they have to pay an extra x amount on top of the store price the cashier would spend all day put the stuff back on the shelves that the customer had just dumped and walked out...

At least your only charged 8%, the bloody Tories have put VAT (Value Added Tax) up to 20% here, friggin rip off so it is...