Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!assari.tut.fi!assari.tut.fi!n67786 From: n67786@assari.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises? Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 06:47:04 GMT References: <1990Nov30.201432.19210@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1990Dec2.063859.28684@actrix.gen.nz> Sender: n67786@assari.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz's message of 2 Dec 90 06:38:59 GMT I'd like to add my share of the knowledge of high mac prices outside us. Up till very lately the Mac prices in Finland seem to follow a very simple rule: the price here in fmk is egual in number to ten times the dollar price. It make one wonder a bit since the official exchange rate for us dollars is: 1 dollar = 3.7 fmk. Now if thy're not greedy then I'm presiden Eisenhower, right? Just lately the prices have dropped dropped some 20 % so that now it's only eight times the price in dollars, but dollar now counts to 3.6 fmk. I might add that the government charges some 20 to 23 % on taxes and such for imported computer stuff, but still they aoud very greedy to me. And the formula I mentioned earlier used retail prices in states that allready have the dealer cut in them! Sure makes one wonder.. -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe -- Tero Nieminen Tampere University of Technology n67786@cc.tut.fi Tampere, Finland, Europe