1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
3:12 a.m.
On 1/11/06 02:06, "Dennis Boone" <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
The point of my comment is that these US-made machines
seem to have
been more expensive in the UK than the US -- hardly surprising.
Figuring out what UK prices were in equivalent USD is fairly simple,
but figuring out US prices from that list isn't trivial.
We don't call this place 'rip-off Britain' for nothing - for as long as I
can remember when things have come from the US the price here has been the
same in ukPounds as it was in dollars no matter what the exchange rate
was....the natural reaction was to do your own imports but unless you were
canny with shipping invoices etc you got (and still get) clobbered for tax
and VAT.
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
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