Why euro store is more expensive than USA???
August 22, 2020 7:30PM
edited August 2020
In the last 3yrs I've been losing a lot of money 'cos my bank accounts are all in dollars (offshore worker) but I have to lose money with exchanges dollar/euro every time I buy (waste) my money in the store. Could anybody explain that difference €/$ please?
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Not sure if there is tax to pay on top of that in the States either.
I don’t buy it that Just Apple and Google set the prices.
Doesn’t really matter what you think. Facts are facts. CG sets their prices in USD and the stores handle the exchange rates.
Yeah, tax are pretty different in the USA/eurozone. Even though I work abroad and don't have to pay tax in Italy (183days/yr out of country) I couldn't change my store location, but that 8s acceptable is to hard to a company get case by case from millions user, they have to follow a standard but...
That is a misleading advertising anyway, at least they shouldn't pop-up an advertising of 19,99 and ask me 25,99. If they have to follow the Italian laws to pay taxes they should follow compliance of Italian rights. If a price is displayed in a store the vendor must sell me at that price doesn't matter if is a error or not.
Yeah but they have to follow the UK laws in this case. If in the game come ou a pop-up with 99,99 dollars instead 99,99 pounds they are doing a false advertising!
Is so hard to understand what is a misleading advertising? I'm not talking about store prices only, that was answered by UdalCuain as soon I posted it.
So that’s nearly £25 on top. The tax collected on it should be nearly £15.
So yeah, I don’t believe it. £99.99 would mean $130.
The ad says $19.99/USD, right?
I checked in Google store tax and bla bla bla and in the eurozone we have to pay tax the 15 pound differences seems like the VAT, that should be 20% in UK.
But the worse thing isn't that. That's is not fair, ok but is a legislation matter and the stores can't do nothing about that. The only thing they could do is AVOID to pop-up those prices in our mobiles
Sorry mate but I didn't get your point.
Yeah the advertising is $19,99, but if I press over the pop-up I'll get to the store where the real price is $25,99 (€21,99).
In Europe the price is higher due to the tax, I understood that too.
My concern is about a false advertising
So what do you mean?
I get what you’re saying. It sucks but I think you just have to accept that an American company is advertising in USD and that prices will be different in foreign stores. It won’t always be based strictly on current exchange rates because Apple and Google aren’t constantly adjusting prices to match current exchange rates. They only do periodic adjustments. There are also tax elements that have to be dealt with. In the US some states do charge tax but you don’t see that until you’re actually charged. I think in some foreign countries Apple and Google are required to have some taxes accounted for up front.
Take an affordable train ride to the nearest beach that isn’t littered with trash because you pay to keep your country clean and enjoy the day with your quality internet.
I will gladly—GLADLY—pay a couple extra bucks if it means all the other stuff you get.
This.