The actuel Prime future...

[Kevin Ouellet]

(08-20-2014 10:17 PM)eried Wrote:  Hahaha! $120+ ? that's only the the taxes here!

But I got first without taxes (customs does not check cheap shipments if they don't say "phone" or "tablet" , etc)

Lol actually the $210 price tag was before taxes in Canada. To be fair, the actual price tag is $207.99, but with Quebec taxes it's well over $230. $210 is over twice the US price. Even when the CDN dollar was worth $0.61 I could still get a TI-89 for $199.99 before taxes.

(08-20-2014 08:58 PM)walter b Wrote:  Well, if you're complaing about HP's prices in Canada, what shall we Europeans do? Cry?

d:-(

That seems just the way 'fair trade' reads when going this way. Low prices at home, high prices for the rest of the world.

The thing is that if you look at many electronics, the price difference is about 10-20% in Canada. For example, new video games launch at $64.99 for the Wii U and $69.99 for PS4/Xbox One in Canada and in USA $59.99 for all three systems. They even used to launch at $59.99 for a short while here. Basically the price difference is the exchange rate. For TI calcs, there is a minimal difference besides the exchange rate, but HP calc price difference is just outrageous. There's no excuse why the price difference between USA and Canada should be this high compared to other products. No wonder why HP calcs sell so poorly in Canada and why many retailers no longer carry them...