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| Thread ID: 79513 | 2007-05-22 10:00:00 | Englang prices. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 552051 | 2007-05-23 10:50:00 | How do you compare it then? With English income of course! eg: UK270 or $733 NZD (www.overclockers.co.uk) $78NZD or UK287 (www.computerlounge.co.nz) But, a better idea is the % cost against your weekly income. Bet the UK price is a SMALLER % than that of the NZ wage. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 552052 | 2007-05-23 16:14:00 | This does not appear to be careless spelling. $81 US, $81 NZ and etcetera? Yes I thought it best to use NZ$ rather than German dracmas. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 552053 | 2007-05-23 21:12:00 | With English income of course! eg: UK270 or $733 NZD (www.overclockers.co.uk) $78NZD or UK287 (www.computerlounge.co.nz) But, a better idea is the % cost against your weekly income. Bet the UK price is a SMALLER % than that of the NZ wage. Yea but I can get one of those cards for $700 inc GST = 257GBP :p |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 552054 | 2007-05-23 22:39:00 | Yea but I can get one of those cards for $700 inc GST = 257GBP :p OK, I'll try explain again, if your weekly wage is $700, then the card is 100% of your weekly wage, over in the UK, I was on about 550 GBP, which means the card would only cost 46% of my weekly wage. It is therefore cheaper to buy over there..... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 552055 | 2007-05-24 00:19:00 | OK, I'll try explain again, if your weekly wage is $700, then the card is 100% of your weekly wage, over in the UK, I was on about 550 GBP, which means the card would only cost 46% of my weekly wage. It is therefore cheaper to buy over there..... I see your point there but: I don't have a weekly wage so how do you work that out :confused: :confused: :D |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 552056 | 2007-05-24 01:02:00 | I see your point there but: I don't have a weekly wage so how do you work that out :confused: :confused: :D If you dont have a weekly wage, then everything is going to be expensive....LOL I miss the UK prices, it really was cheap building pc's there.... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 552057 | 2007-05-24 02:41:00 | I have just come back from Scotland and bought 3 new SanDisk Ultra II, Compact Flash Card, 4GB for my canon 350D. over here they cost roughly $110 in the uk i got them for just under $50 each. Stuff is cheaper, but thats because you have more choice, either from buying online uk or online europe. |
mode3 (6544) | ||
| 552058 | 2007-05-24 03:06:00 | OK, I'll try explain again, if your weekly wage is $700, then the card is 100% of your weekly wage, over in the UK, I was on about 550 GBP, which means the card would only cost 46% of my weekly wage. It is therefore cheaper to buy over there..... Cheaper to buy over there if you live and work over there (maybe). For most people here, comparing against exchanged currency is the best way to determine the relative cost of items (factoring in shipping, tax, etc etc) |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 552059 | 2007-05-24 07:26:00 | Yes I thought it best to use NZ$ rather than German dracmas. I could be wrong? Wonder whether you go on visits to Greece and Germany. Are you confused about where you are and what currency you are using? The currency has changed here to the point where it gets dopey. Price of item = $19.99 advertised. I walk in and buy item for cash and will not get 1 cent change. We do not have 1c 2c 5c any more. I have in my possesion a half farthing from the 1800s. And I do not want to sell. As a programmer in COBOL I realise many a mickle makes a muckle. So if you have 0.0001 cents multiplied by 1,000,000? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 552060 | 2007-05-24 07:34:00 | If you live in a country, you pay what things cost in that, your home, country. If you come from another country and buy things, the relationship between what you pay and what you would pay in your home country depends on a lot of things, many of which are not rational. The global market and the international banking system , "economies of scale", distance between suppliers and markets, etcetera, etcetera. Often you pay more (translated to your home currency) than a local, because that's what tourists are for. One thing is constant. Green paint is alway cheaper in the other country, so its grass is always greener. Or perhaps the taurine excreta is a better fertiliser in the other paddock. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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