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Originally Posted by borked
So, they charge different prices to different countries huh? Ehm, is that cos of differences in VAT? And, in the absence of bartering or targeted marketing, I've never come across 1 guy paying a price for one thing, and another paying a different.
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No, it doesn't have anything with VAT. Even if you check a shop like Ikea, they have different prices for the same products in each European country. You can even go to Ikea in one country and pay 200 for a table and go 50miles further away, to another country and pay 300 for the same table. Why? Supply demand. Until people are willing to pay more, companies will charge more, simple as that. If the shop would know there is a big demand for that table in the other country, they would even try to ask 400 or more for it. Until it sells.
And does anyone force the surfers to use regional billing? They see the price on the join page, if they think they are beeing ripped off, they don't have to join. Yet, they join just as without regional billing, so whats the problem? Why are you defending someone who doesn't want that? They don't care and you do?