Dell Price Differential

mloc

I've seen large price differentials on computer products before, but this is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

The new 24" flat panel 2407WFP monitor sells on the US dell website
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&oc=2407FPW
for $747, or €588.98 with the current exchange rate.

On the Irish dell site
http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ie&l=en&sku=59234&category_id=6198&first=true&s=dhs&cs=iedhs1
its €1057.66.

That's an 80% increase! On the same product, from the same company. It's insane. Just out of interest, I checked the UK site
http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&sku=59234&category_id=6198&first=true&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1
and the same monitor costs £742.72, or €1,088.50. Even more than the Irish price.

I genuinely just dont understand that kind of price hike.

onemanband

All monitors in Europe over 20' attract 14% duty. Still a crazy price delta!!!

Noelie

wouldn't the american price have tax added onto the display price? but that would only account for 5%

onemanband

Another good point. The American price will not include sales tax. Therefore in order to do a correct comparison you have to take 21% (vat) off the amreican price and then deduct 14% for duty. Then you have like for like.

mloc

yeah the irish price includes vat, probably should have pointed that out.

Noelie

onemanband wrote:

Another good point. The American price will not include sales tax. Therefore in order to do a correct comparison you have to take 21% (vat) off the amreican price and then deduct 14% for duty. Then you have like for like.

Don't you mean irish price?

or you can just look at the buisness site rather than home, the buisness site shows prices ex vat


Just checked it's 872.10 ex vat a http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ie&l=en&s=bsd&cs=iebsdt1&sku=59234

onemanband

Your correct, sorry!!! Irish price after VAT and tax taken off would be Euro 751.72. Still much more expensive.

darragh.delany

also annoying is that Dell sell some products on their UK site that are unavailable on their Irish site even though I belive they all ship from their Irish facility.. what's that about?

Nearly as annoying as Amazon.co.uk stopping shipping some goods to Ireland, let's erect more barriers to a single market shall we!