Annoying Price Discrepancy

S

Saucy

Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
getting unfair.

The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
Canadian residents for the very same product.

To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in conjunction
with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian customers.

[U.S. Price]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846

[Canadian Price]
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846

Saucy
 
A

Andy C.(never #)

On Nov 30, 3:46 pm, "Saucy" <]89-6sr...@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote:
> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
> getting unfair.
>
> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>
> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in conjunction
> with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian customers.
>
> [U.S. Price]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HCZ9AC/ref=s9_asin_title_1?pf_rd...
>
> [Canadian Price]http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000HCZ9AC/ref=s9_asin_title_1?pf_rd_...
>
> Saucy

I'm sure I could be wrong and if you live in Canada, you probably know
better than our American news sources, but I think I just read that
the US dollar was only worth .65 of the Canadian dollar. That's a big
turn around from a few years ago when an American dollar was like
$1.25 in Canada.

At any rate, save your money and download Ubuntu. It will do
everything you need and faster. And you won't have to deal with all
that nasty file fragmentation that is built into all the windoze OS's
because they're still using a file system from the 80's.

Later,

Andy C.(never #)
 
B

Bill Yanaire

"Saucy" <]89-6srtpo@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote in message
news:uJZ3iI5MIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
> getting unfair.
>
> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>
> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
> conjunction with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian
> customers.
>
> [U.S. Price]
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>
> [Canadian Price]
> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>
> Saucy

OK - Get on it. Go talk to Microsoft, Amazon, and the Canadial retailers
and ge them to act right away. I will look in the paper next week to see if
prices have come down.
 
B

Bill Yanaire

"Andy C.(never #)" <acamfield@revenue.org> wrote in message
news:edb16074-6019-44e7-ab79-f1cb35f9a430@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 30, 3:46 pm, "Saucy" <]89-6sr...@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote:
>> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
>> getting unfair.
>>
>> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
>> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
>> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>>
>> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
>> conjunction
>> with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian customers.
>>
>> [U.S.
>> Price]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HCZ9AC/ref=s9_asin_title_1?pf_rd...
>>
>> [Canadian
>> Price]http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000HCZ9AC/ref=s9_asin_title_1?pf_rd_...
>>
>> Saucy
>
> I'm sure I could be wrong and if you live in Canada, you probably know
> better than our American news sources, but I think I just read that
> the US dollar was only worth .65 of the Canadian dollar. That's a big
> turn around from a few years ago when an American dollar was like
> $1.25 in Canada.
>
> At any rate, save your money and download Ubuntu. It will do
> everything you need and faster. And you won't have to deal with all
> that nasty file fragmentation that is built into all the windoze OS's
> because they're still using a file system from the 80's.

Oh no. Another Ubuntu blow hard. You think that TOY OS will save the
world? Ubuntu is FREE and people just ignore it. They might try it out,
then when the see what a POS it is, Ubuntu is immediately wiped from the PC
and a normal OS (Like XP) is put back.


>
> Later,
>
> Andy C.(never #)
 
S

Saucy

"Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote in message
news:e1TNTT5MIHA.5224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> "Saucy" <]89-6srtpo@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote in message
> news:uJZ3iI5MIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
>> getting unfair.
>>
>> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
>> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
>> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>>
>> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
>> conjunction with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian
>> customers.
>>
>> [U.S. Price]
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> [Canadian Price]
>> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> Saucy
>
> OK - Get on it. Go talk to Microsoft, Amazon, and the Canadial retailers
> and ge them to act right away. I will look in the paper next week to see
> if prices have come down.
>


LOL.

Saucy
 
S

Saucy

"Andy C.(never #)" <acamfield@revenue.org> wrote in message
news:edb16074-6019-44e7-ab79-f1cb35f9a430@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 30, 3:46 pm, "Saucy" <]89-6sr...@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote:
>> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
>> getting unfair.
>>
>> < chop>
>
> I'm sure I could be wrong and if you live in Canada, you probably know
> better than our American news sources, but I think I just read that
> the US dollar was only worth .65 of the Canadian dollar. That's a big
> turn around from a few years ago when an American dollar was like
> $1.25 in Canada.
>
> At any rate, save your money and download Ubuntu. It will do
> everything you need and faster. And you won't have to deal with all
> that nasty file fragmentation that is built into all the windoze OS's
> because they're still using a file system from the 80's.
>
> Later,
>
> Andy C.(never #)


You read incorrectly. The dollars are roughly par.

Saucy
 
B

Bill

"Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote in message
news:e1TNTT5MIHA.5224@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> "Saucy" <]89-6srtpo@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote in message
> news:uJZ3iI5MIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
>> getting unfair.
>>
>> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
>> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
>> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>>
>> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
>> conjunction with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian
>> customers.
>>
>> [U.S. Price]
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> [Canadian Price]
>> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> Saucy
>
> OK - Get on it. Go talk to Microsoft, Amazon, and the Canadial retailers
> and ge them to act right away. I will look in the paper next week to see
> if prices have come down.


Its all that extra Canadian duty and tax
Bill
 
A

Andy C.(never #)

On Nov 30, 4:10 pm, "Bill Yanaire" <b...@yanaire.com> wrote:
>SNIP

Toy OS, that's funny. I develop on Linux and deploy to Linux and Unix
for all the end users running windoze who can't even find a file after
they save it and Linux is the toy. Get a clue, dude.

No more later.

Andy C.(never #)
 
D

dzomlija

If you think thats bad, here in South Africa it's even worse. Vista Home
Basic, -from the nation distributors that only sell to resellers-, costs
R 912.00, which is around US $134. Vista x64 Ultimate is R 2340.00, or
around US $ 340.00!

And this is the price I pay. I still need to add a markup before I can
resell the products to consumers!


--
dzomlija

____________________________________
Peter Alexander Dzomlija
Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? -And as
you die, so shall I be Reborn-...

- ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
- AMD Atlon 64 Dual-Core 4800+
- 4GB DDR400
- 128MB ASUS nVidia 6600 PCI-Express
- Thermaltake Tai-Chi Watercooled Chassis
- 1207GB Total Formatted Storage
- Vista Ultimate x64
- CodeGear Delphi 2007'http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/' (http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/)
 
F

Frank

Andy C.(never #) wrote:

>
> At any rate, save your money and download Ubuntu. It will do
> everything you need and faster.

Another fukkin lying linux troll? Are you lost or just stupid?

And you won't have to deal with all
> that nasty file fragmentation that is built into all the windoze OS's
> because they're still using a file system from the 80's.

Yeah and you're still using a toy os originally developed by a phone
company.
Go screw yourself ok.
Frank

(always#)
 
J

Jupiter Jones [MVP]

At least with amazon.com the answer is simple, order from Amazon in
the US and pay the US price but have it shipped to Canada.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"Saucy" <]89-6srtpo@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote in message
news:uJZ3iI5MIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it
> is getting unfair.
>
> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been
> for some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much
> less than Canadian residents for the very same product.
>
> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
> conjunction with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian
> customers.
>
> [U.S. Price]
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>
> [Canadian Price]
> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>
> Saucy
 
B

Bill Yanaire

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:OSSZM65MIHA.4136@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> At least with amazon.com the answer is simple, order from Amazon in the US
> and pay the US price but have it shipped to Canada.

Don't you need to pay a duty fee to Canada to import product from the US?
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Saucy" <]89-6srtpo@y54sb0wn47.sg9pui> wrote in message
> news:uJZ3iI5MIHA.6108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Yada yada what the market will bear 'n all that, but I do think it is
>> getting unfair.
>>
>> The Canadian dollar is roughly par with the U.S. dollar and has been for
>> some time now. However, Amazon charges U.S. residents much much less than
>> Canadian residents for the very same product.
>>
>> To be honest, I think it is time Canadian retailers, perhaps in
>> conjunction with Microsoft, lower the price of Windows for Canadian
>> customers.
>>
>> [U.S. Price]
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> [Canadian Price]
>> http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240701&pf_rd_i=507846
>>
>> Saucy
>
 
J

Jupiter Jones [MVP]

Not on the book I ordered from Amazon.com a few weeks ago.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org


"Bill Yanaire" <bill@yanaire.com> wrote in message
news:uw90IX6MIHA.5244@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Don't you need to pay a duty fee to Canada to import product from
> the US?
 
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