Outrageous price difference Canada and USA

naftalim · Dec 21, 2007

I ask all Canadians to write to Amazon.ca and complain. I wanted to buy Toast 8 as a gift for a friend. At Amazon.com its $58 after rebate. At Amazon Canada its $99.99!

I called Amazon Canada and they gave me the usual story about Amazon Canada being a separate company who buys from a different supplier. I wanted to tell her, get another supplier!

Of course, Amazon.com will not sell that product to me in Canada.

Only if we make a fuss, will this change.

DocZ06 · Dec 21, 2007

Including shipping ( U.S. to Canada), you would save money if you had a friend or relative in the USA purchase the software for you.

Regarding Amazon.ca -- I agree, that's just wrong.

Leukeh · Dec 21, 2007

Not sure since I'm in Aus, but what's the difference between USD and CAD? Could that possibly explain it?

naftalim · Dec 21, 2007

The Canadian $ is actually worth more than the US $

Leukeh said:
Not sure since I'm in Aus, but what's the difference between USD and CAD? Could that possibly explain it?

EuphLlama · Dec 21, 2007

1 U.S. dollar is equal to about 1.00110021 Canadian dollars

mikepugs · Dec 21, 2007

The dollar is in the can right now and the markets haven't adjusted to it yet. Hopefully it wont stay like this but if it does the either the canadian prices will drop or US prices will rise. I have a feeling it will be the later. Hopefully the US can bring the dollar out of it's plunge :/

EuphLlama · Dec 21, 2007

Heres the thing, the lower our dollar is, the more can be bought from other countries

dohidied · Dec 22, 2007

EuphLlama said:
Heres the thing, the lower our dollar is, the more can be bought from other countries

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but if the dollar goes down we get less euros or pounds or whatever for our dollars. So we can buy less from other countries for the same amount of dollars.

nirvana · Dec 22, 2007

You think that is bad come to rip-off Britain.

baggss · Dec 22, 2007

naftalim said:
The Canadian $ is actually worth more than the US $

They are roughly on par right now, with the difference sliding back and forth by extremely small amounts.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

nirvana said:
You think that is bad come to rip-off Britain.

While it may be partly due to exchange rates, the Pound being so much higher than the Dollar right now, it's also the ridiculous amount of tax that the British Government levies on it's citizens. The VAT alone is just stupid.

joe.morgan · Dec 22, 2007

baggss said:
The VAT alone is just stupid.

dont we just know it! its cheaper for me to fly to new york and back to get my shopping than it is for me to go shopping in london!

chrisiw · Jan 4, 2008

nirvana said:
You think that is bad come to rip-off Britain.

Yep! agree with that one. :Angry:

PerryLynch · Jan 4, 2008

It's all the taxes that Canadians pay. Everyone gripes about the state of US taxation, but we are far better off in that regard than our neighbors to the North! In May, a friend of mine and I each bought new Honda Ridgelines, fully loaded. He paid nearly $13k more than I did, and it's all related to taxes. That sad thing? Our trucks were built in Toronto, and even after mine was 'imported' to the US, it was cheaper here.

And you can't buy a new US-spec Honda and take it North without losing all warranty coverage. I'd bet Apple has similar restrictions.