Indians can buy iPods at 150% the US price!

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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

They expect someone to shell out a month's pay on a music player?

It ain't a proper status symbol if just anyone can buy it. What better way to scream, "I'm bad with money!" at everyone around you than a really expensive phone? ...well, hmm, i guess there are always watches and handbags... :rolleyes:

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Lost User

Probably they'd say there's import duty involved..blaa)..well its sourced in china etc.. anyway which is next door...well you should note that india is one of the emerging markets for selling stuff too...it would be cost + import duty + value added taxes + sales tax + margins + blaa...

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Frank Kerrigan

If they were a lot cheaper they'd all end up on ebay or that HongKong.

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Ryan Roberts

Are there any import duties involved in that? I think things have loosened up a lot recently, but India used to have some ludicrous import tariffs.

peterchen

With all the money flowing through asia, there are probably enough Indians for who this is peanuts. You've been getting stuff cheaper than me all the time, so why should I care? ;)

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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

They expect someone to shell out a month's pay on a music player?

There's obviously a demographic in India that is willing to do that, Nish. Don't blame Apple.

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I've noticed a lot of Canadian products that come from the US are priced way higher than in the US when you factor in the exchange rate. I don't mean a little higher I mean a *lot* higher. I recently bought a Kitchenaid mixer new on ebay for 300usd which would have cost me 800CA$ here in a store. With the current exchange rate that mixer should have been no more than 400CA$ even factoring in shipping etc. What I think is happening is that manufacturers or resellers are taking advantage of old exchange rates. The US dollar has plummeted against world currencies over the last few months but crafty resellers are taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of this fact. I've emailed and bitched about it whenever I see it for products that I'm interested in purchasing and interestingly Sears Canada just dropped their prices on the same mixer from 800CA$ to 600CA$

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Mladen Jankovic

I bought my 2GB iPod Nano for nearly $240, here in Serbia, not in an Apple shop, because there it has even higher price. Now that is what I call over pricing. :mad:

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NormDroid

You're a growing econony, what do you expect? Welcome to the real world where a car in one country can cost twice as much in the next.

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Lost User

If you're looking for a low price then Sears is the last place I'd think to look. I buy stuff there, but only when they have their 'lowest price of the year' sales. Even then, their prices might be lower than other stores. That mixer you're talking about retails for $399 CAD from Costco.ca[^] shipping included. Cheers, Drew.

Paul Watson

Nothing special, Nish. iPod Touch 8gb is €299 here in Ireland which translates to $415. Sells for $299 in the U.S. Go figure. And I'm guessing in India there are still enough people who can buy it at that price to make it worth it for Apple. There are also supply chains to take into account. It may be made in China but that doesn't mean it is cheaper or easier to get it to India than to the USA. Bulk deals, transport routes etc. etc. And also what are Indian import duties like? If you compare an IBM Lenovo laptop in the States to the same on in India?

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Yeah I know, I was just using it for purposes of comparison, it's not the only item I've seen drastic us/canada variance in pricing on.

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Tim Craig

Has India relaxed the rules to where outside companies can operate on their own or do they still have to have an Indian "partner"? If they have to have a partner, maybe that's the source of the markup?

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Nickolay Karnaukhov

I think people with monthly salary below 1000 that are willing to buy iPhone are just stupid jerks :-) Same thing I can say about exUSSR... I know one guy who work in store with 200$ salary bought some phone/handgeld PC for 700$ by taking a loan in bank for 2 years. There are a lot of people that try to make other people to envy them just because they have something that other people cannot afford - I think these people are slaves of THINGS. By the way - some of my friends was really surprised when I bought "new" phone Nokia 2600 last year for about 50$ :-) I think phone is just a phone - it should allow making calls, receiving calls and same with SMS... that's all.

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Johan Lombaard

Sounds like a good way to lose market share to clones. Not very nice, Apple.

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