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- From: mjwalshe@tymnet.bt.co.uk (Maurice Walshe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:00:12 GMT
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- In article <rdingem.46u5@grafix.xs4all.nl>,
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans) wrote:
- >In a message of 15 Jan 96 Paul Chan wrote to All:
- >
- > >> : Jonathan Anderson, joint MD of Amiga Technologies UK, and two other
- > >> support : staff have been laid off from the small UK outfit.
- >
- > PC> Is it any suprise, even A500 Amigans who want to upgrade think twice
- > PC> about the rise in price. I`m still wishing I got hold of an A1200 for
-
- > PC> By attempting to cash in on initial sales by hiking the price they
-
- >Actually, the A1200 price IN THE UK was/is high. In Germany and here
- >in Holland, it is not much higher than it used to be (at the Cologne
- >fair, I noticed the German prices were already back at their old
- >level).
-
- What are they please
-
- >The price difference of AT A1200's was, from the outset, pretty steep
- >between Germany and the UK. A colleague of mine asked Gilles B. about
- >this, and I believe the answer had something to do with high import
- >taxes in the UK (or something, I'm not an economist).
-
- but whats to stop me (as a EU citizen) buying a 1200 in germany or holland
- and bringing it back - I thought that if the VAT is paid at origin I
- should not have to pay any import taxes.
-
- >So it's not that surprising that sales in Germany were much better
-
- Rgds maurice
-
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