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iPhone 13 mini price in the USA and Ireland

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  • 17-09-2021 1:54pm
    #1
    monkeylicious
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    ahoy hoy,

    Can anybody tell me why the iPhone 13 mini is €829 euro in Ireland but is only $699 in the US store? Normally Apple don't seem to have heard of currency conversion and apply the same number in Eur as dollar. Now it seems to be almost twice the price!



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    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    The US site doesn't include tax until the end of the purchase, Irish site includes VAT from start to finish. There's still a difference but explains it somewhat.



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    ongarite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Prices in the US are before local state sales tax, usually in region of 8-10%.

    Irish VAT is 23% so adjusting for this, the price difference isn’t that large.



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    monkeylicious
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭monkeylicious


    ah ok. Still seems a bit saucy though. thanks for the info



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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    It’s not saucy. The difference when you add vat is about €40-50, it’s also more expensive to ship to a smaller island of 5 million people than it is to a land of 350m people. Apple pick a very weak conversion rate to be safe. If they used a daily/weekly rate the price of an iPhone would always change and people would hesitate in buying in hope for saving a couple of euro.

    Also to proclaim apple haven’t heard of currency conversion is quite laughable. They sell into every major country in the world and they are masters in extracting every single cent from a transaction so they are fully aware of what they’re doing. Companies always price things as to what the market will bear. For example Netflix in Turkey costs about €4, here in Ireland it’s over €10, €10 to a Turkish family is way put of whack and they would have zero customers. Also if you look at shops here that have a UK counter part they’ll always have a much more expensive euro price than the UK price converted to euro when you factor the vat and for currency fluctuations it’s fairly minuscule difference

    if you want a real larf, look at the sterling prices.



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