[CUBE] powerlogix-europe.com

[Joseph B. Gurman]

     Erik Ableson wrote:

>OK - newly arrived in France, this has been a problem dogging me as=20
>well.  There's a number of other items that I would love to pick up=20
>that I know are available quite cheap State-side... can anyone explain=20=
>to me why USB hubs are ridiculously overpriced here?  What with the=20
>Euro being worth more than the USD these days the prices should be=20
>inverted.
>
>Fully realizing the tax implications with the VAT in the UK and the=20
>french equivalent there still shouldn't be the kind of price disparity=20=
>were all seeing here.

     Just checked the Darty Website (http://www.darty.fr/) and their 
prices on USB hubs are identical (in Euros) to the prices at 
Outpost.com (in US$), so that only makes them ~ 10% more expensive in 
absolute terms. From what I can tell, the Darty price includes VAT. 
Does this sound right to Erik and others in France?

						Joe Gurman
-- 
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                                                             - Douglas 
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Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA