Comment by madsohm
12 hours ago
Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
12 hours ago
Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
That's around $85 more expensive once you account for the fact Danish advertised prices include VAT at a rate of 25%, whereas the US advertised price excludes sales tax.
That's only a little more than the EU price of 699 Euro or approx $813. Part of that is VAT which is included the price (right?) instead of being added at checkout like the US. That would bring the USD price up to $713. IDK where the rest of the increase would come from though.
edit: Denmark VAT is actually 25% not 20% so the USD price plus Denmark VAT is ~$750
Taking the German price of 699 Eur and accounting for the extra VAT in Denmark (25%) vs Germany (19%) I get 853 USD which means you're basically in line with the price for Germany which I expect is close to the price for the rest of the EU +/- VAT.
So the higher price in Denmark looks like VAT + some extra costs for being in the EU market; import duties, corporate taxes, etc.
Does that include VAT? Also the USD has been getting weaker quickly so I wouldn’t be surprised if the differential there is even larger than when they settled on pricing.
With or without VAT? The USD price is without VAT.
The DKK5499 is with VAT. If I enter a San Francisco zip code, it still only comes out to about USD654.
Sales tax in the US is nowhere near 25% :)
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It's the 25% VAT. Pre VAT, it's ~$685.
With state sales tax of 8% where I live, the base would cost me $648.
So not a huge difference.
The Danish version has two years of warranty.
Europeans (I'm German) often sigh at the price differences, but a big part of it is just that US prices are listed without VAT, while European prices are, and VAT differs across EU member countries.
Denmark has a VAT of 25%, so the DKK 5499 price without VAT is DKK 4399, which amounts to ~$684. Still more but not substantially.
Vote for politicians who'll lower VAT from 25% (!!!) to the same about as we pay in sales tax (5-9% depending on locale, 0% in some states) -- see lower prices :)
The US price doesn't include tax, Denmark price I assume does.