Australia Region Ripped Off!

[jfanning]

Originally Posted by BluDomain

You are including VAT. Studios can't be blamed for a governments taxing
system. I ordered Region Free "The Island" [Warner Home Video, UK] listed at £17.98, but after VAT was deducted for shipping to the U.S. it was £15.30. And I'm sure Warner Home Video has a substantial cost of doing business in the UK to pass on. Foreign DVD's in the U.S. typically run $26,
which is about $7 over a new DVD released by an U.S. based Studio. The same goes for Blu-ray's
I've ordered from Australia.

The cost of business is not that much more, wages are relative, freight is slightly more, only because it petrol is another item that everyone else in the world is getting ripped off more than the US

[HD-Greek]

Originally Posted by jfanning

The cost of business is not that much more, wages are relative, freight is slightly more, only because it petrol is another item that everyone else in the world is getting ripped off more than the US

+1

[WickyWoo]

The cost of business is not that much more, wages are relative, freight is slightly more, only because it petrol is another item that everyone else in the world is getting ripped off more than the US

Actually, it's a lot more. Maintaining offices etc for 1/15th the population