899???
Okay then. Maybe there is another explanation other than ripping off customers?
900 euros say what
I don't care who I have to ask, jacking the price up over the equivalent for no reason is fucking dumb
899€???
Okay then. Maybe there is another explanation other than ripping off customers?
899???
Okay then. Maybe there is another explanation other than ripping off customers?
I am not sure about the euro price outrage. As already stated, once factored the 20% VAT, it is pretty much the expected price.
799$ * 1.2 = 959$ -> 876
The difference between the Euro price for the Vive vs the US price and the Oculus Rift in Euro vs US price, actually shows that you are more "ripped off" with the Oculus Rift, with almost double the excess cost vs Vive. It's sad that sales tax is lost on some people, and the buffer applied to products to counteract changes in currency value.
As I mentioned earlier in the space of time since the £689 was rumoured when Vive pricing was announced, the UK price has gone from £16 in excess, to £4 cheaper including the added tax after conversion. If you look at any products out there, this is commonplace.
I am not sure about the euro price outrage. As already stated, once factored the 20% VAT, it is pretty much the expected price.
799$ * 1.2 = 959$ -> 876€
Thats crazy and for Polish people its even crazier...
3930 PLN = 899
3003 PLN = Average Salary (Netto) in Poland in 2015
Lol, good luck with that kind of pricing, dudes. I really can't imagine a lot of people are willing to gamble away nearly a grand on a first-gen peripheral which future is yet unsure and unproven.
Catch me in a year or two buying the actually good headsets for half price. Not worth jumping in on day one.
Shipping costs are unmentioned. This deal is more fair than Rift's if it's free.
expected
considering how much more it could have been e.g. if they were shipping from the US, being in line with comparably priced products isnt bad
Europe getting butt fucked again. Il post screenshots on Finnish prices, i bet they will be 1100 at the very least.
Also remember Italy Spain Portugal have higher than 20% VAT.
Italy
$800=731euro + 22% VAT = 891.92 euro, just 8 euros off. Spain is 21% VAT so its around 16 euro roundup which isn't a lot. Some other EU countries are even higher.
Indeed.
Think I'm gonna be one of the few people here that is actually pleasantly surprised.
Still out my price zone though lol.
Oh damn. Is that a recent change? I thought it was pretty much 19-20%. Not sure how Oculus is charging almost double in excess as a buffer vs Vive. Figured it would be the other way around with HTC since they have reasoning to go after the profit margins.
799 usd turn into 899 euros. The fuck?
USD 799 = 899
HAHAHA
Not too long time ago VAT was 22% here in Finland, then it was 23% and now it's 24%.
The economy is pushing countries to raise it.
900 euros. lmfao. No thanks Gabe, you ass.
Oh damn. Is that a recent change? I thought it was pretty much 19-20%. Not sure how Oculus is charging almost double in excess as a buffer vs Vive. Figured it would be the other way around with HTC since they have reasoning to go after the profit margins.
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I paid less for my oculus/vive ready pc
Oh damn. Is that a recent change? I thought it was pretty much 19-20%. Not sure how Oculus is charging almost double in excess as a buffer vs Vive. Figured it would be the other way around with HTC since they have reasoning to go after the profit margins.
Oh damn. Is that a recent change? I thought it was pretty much 19-20%. Not sure how Oculus is charging almost double in excess as a buffer vs Vive. Figured it would be the other way around with HTC since they have reasoning to go after the profit margins.
Let mom and dad handle those things.ITT: People who have no idea what VAT is.
ITT: People who have no idea what VAT is.
You don't try and make profit from any exchange rate buffering. You're just hedging against volatility. The profit is in the original price.
I'd guess HTC are better placed to understand the various markets they sell into from their phone units, and so should have a good handle on what exchange rates are likely to do. That may allow them to have a more narrow buffer
Nah it's been like it for decades (as in while we were happy with 17.5% for a long long time the rest of Europe had much higher VAT rates). Plus combine that with different countries have exemptions and some different brackets for specific goods and you get situations where Amazon base all their invoicing from Luxemborg thanks to lower VAT rates than the rest of Europe. Though that all changed with the introduction of VAT MOSS at the start of the year where no it's the purchasing countries VAT band, rather than the invoicing one, that sets the rate at which it is to be paid. Speaking of Amazon they used to have a breakdown of how much VAT you'd pay on goods for your country. Somewhere like Hungary I think goes up to 28%.
Disgusting.
I've always assumed that the hike in prices towards Australians (which to my knowledge is often above included tax) was part of scraping a bit of profit that many collectively engaged in. A horrifying favourite being Adobe's "Creative Cloud" which the CEO hilariously and infuriatingly couldn't reasonably argue regarding excess pricing.
Ah damn, forgot about VAT MOSS too. Totally lost track of what happened in other countries.