| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 3 Sep 2000 at 11:11:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Sorry but this has got to me.... |
Hello Bill
On 03-Sep-00, you wrote:
> Hello Gerald
>
> On 02-Sep-00, Gerald Mellor wrote:
>
>> So are you trying to say there's a big market in this country for
>> obscure chips for a 10 year old computer system? Hmmm...
>
> No - there probably isn't much demand in the USA either though.
There is a considerably higher demand in the USA - there are
a much higher proportion of big-box machines there. Whether
people ask for them is IRRELEVANT. The perceived demand is
there from the sheer size of the population (of people AND A3000's
etc.)
> It's the usual Rip Off Britain effect :-(
There is no rip-off Britain effect. It's just a cunning media plot to get
things cheap which idiot politicians have to pander to. So things are
more expensive here: did you think that they might be higher quality,
or take into account things like import duties? Buying wine on the
continent is cheaper only because you don't pay the high VAT there,
and don't pay for importing the stuff except with the hidden cost of
your fuel and time. Why is the VAT so low on the continent? Because
they have proportionally higher income tax.
It all balances out very nicely. You pay less for one and AUTOMATICALLY
more for the other. There is no getting out of it. That we have a balance
which makes for more expensive goods means that we actually get a lot
more money each month to pay for it..
Thanks
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