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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <6394@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 Dec 90 23:42:05 GMT
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Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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rfischer@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:

>In article <6376@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi) writes:
>>Is Apple greedy? YOU BET THEY ARE.

>Either that, or your government is being greedy and charging high import 
>duty taxes.  From what I know about how Apple works and how Australia
>works, I'd say it's more likely that it's the Australian government 
>that is making the money.  Either that or the US gov't making money on
>export duties.  Maybe both.  Maybe all three.

>Ray Fischer
>rfischer@cs.stanford.edu

To my knowledge, the Australian government puts on 20% sales tax and with
an exchange rate of roughly $US 0.80c = $AUS 1.00, there's no way in hell
that that explains our prices.

An example: Mac LC, 512K Dram card, 13" monitor = $AUS 4972 (consortium)

Subtract 20% sales tax and allow for exchange rate above = $US 3,182.

How does that compare to YOUR consortium prices?
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