iPad Price Comparison: How Cheap Can You Get It Around the World?
Written on Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Courtesy of an old dear friend (thanks!), who twittered this, here's what you've all been wondering...
Where can I get an iPad for cheap!?
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| But looking at it... I'm getting second thoughts.. |
The iPad is surely by now one of the most desired pieces of kit for gadget lovers, though I must say I'm not convinced... yet, anyway...
So here it is, all the necessary info for all your relatives or friends still undecided on their Xmas trip destination (whether to exotic or not so exotic countries) including such crucial factors as the iPad Market Price.
And you couldn't get it from a better source either... Straight from the respectable Economist:
IF YOU fly from Hong Kong to Frankfurt or Paris and look suspiciously like a gadget lover, chances are that you will be searched by customs officers: an iPad with Wi-Fi and 16 gigabytes of memory costs $200 less in the former British colony than in Germany and France. Given the risk of having to pay extra duty (and the price of the flight), potential iPad buyers in both countries ought to consider a trip to nearby Luxembourg, where Apple's popular device is $35 cheaper. The sales tax is only one reason for such differences in price. Consumers in Hong Kong also get a better deal because iPads are assembled in mainland China. Buyers in Switzerland have to pay more because there is less competition between retailers. In China and Mexico, the device may be cheaper because people are poorer. Incidentally, if income is taken into account, consumers in Luxembourg get the best deal: they only have to spend about 0.8% of the city-state's GDP per person on an iPad.
I wonder whether the Luxembourg Ministry of Tourism secretly sponsored the Economist to run this article...
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