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UK Apple store is down, incoming price hikes! (VAT increase)

yetanotherdave

yetanotherdave

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Looks like we are getting the VAT increase right on time on the UK apple store.
Will we see 2.5% increase or maybe more?
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Schtumple said:
Shame really, puts me off buying anything expensive until it goes down (not just computers). Can't see how this is going to help anything.
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In theory, it's £25 per £1000 item cost, not too bad. In fact, it's only 2.5%.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it to go down. Cameron slammed VAT as a regressive tax and not being in line with a fair society, therefore there is no chance he'll bring it back down. Maybe Labour will if they get in, but you'll be waiting about 5 years for that.

Schtumple said:
Pretty sure this thread will end up in PRSI.
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Why? It's about the apple store prices...
 
yetanotherdave said:
Cameron slammed VAT as a regressive tax and not being in line with a fair society, therefore there is no chance he'll bring it back down. Maybe Labour will if they get in, but you'll be waiting about 5 years for that.
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This is why the thread would end up in PRSI, it's a topic that's surrounded by politics.
 
firestarter said:
I'd happily turn back the clock and unelect these fools, but we have to make the best out of the situation we find ourselves in!
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Implying that voting means anything and is not just a meaningless pass of power between two parties every 5 or 10 years. Same as the US.

Implying we live in an actual democracy.
 
Can we all just agree that all three of the main political parties have proven themselves unfit and incapable of governing effectively with the needs and wants of the people as their priority, realise that democracy is a sham and capatilism is a failed experiment, and start playing the "guess how much extra apple is going to gouge us for" game? :p
 
Well, it looks like it's back online, the only change I can see is the free delivery threshold has gone from £79 to £80, all other prices appear to have remained the same! (for the time being anyway)

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individual product pages have the new prices, apple seem to have stuck to the nearest pounf on 2.5%. The £999 macbook pro,is now £1020, apple tv was £99, now £101.

No where near as bad as it could have been!
 
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Ah well.. To look on the bright side, the MB and MBP's are due for update soon, and I believe the pound has strengthened against the dollar since the last update. $999 into pounds, plus 20% VAT, is about £780. So come the update, we'll hopefully see the prices reset to what they were (£849 for the MacBook, £999 for the Pro, maybe a bit less if we're lucky). You have to bare in mind that higher cost of overheads etc. means there will always be price discrepancy between the UK and US.
 
nick9191 said:
Ah well.. To look on the bright side, the MB and MBP's are due for update soon, and I believe the pound has strengthened against the dollar since the last update. $999 into pounds, plus 20% VAT, is about £780. So come the update, we'll hopefully see the prices reset to what they were (£849 for the MacBook, £999 for the Pro, maybe a bit less if we're lucky). You have to bare in mind that higher cost of overheads etc. means there will always be price discrepancy between the UK and US.
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Unfortunately we had our price corrections when the MBA came out. The pound hasn't changed significantly since then.
 
firestarter said:
Unfortunately we had our price corrections when the MBA came out. The pound hasn't changed significantly since then.
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Ah but the MacBook Air was not updated in April alongside the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The last update before the current release was WWDC 2009! When the pound was worth far more. So the price changed from the June 09 exchange rate to the October 10 rate. Whereas with the MacBook/Pro we're coming from the April 10 rate which is weaker than current :)
 
nick9191 said:
Ah but the MacBook Air was not updated in April alongside the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The last update before the current release was WWDC 2009! When the pound was worth far more. So the price changed from the June 09 exchange rate to the October 10 rate. Whereas with the MacBook/Pro we're coming from the April 10 rate which is weaker than current :)
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I'm not sure where I can get the figures from to prove it... but I know for sure that the Mac Mini price was dropped and some of the iPad prices were adjusted when the MBA came out.

So there WAS a cross-store price adjustment, which didn't tie in with updates to the items having their prices adjusted. I think the MBP was adjusted down at that point. I'm happy to be proved wrong though - if there's anywhere that tracks and documents these things!

Apple does adjust price points outside of product updates, you know!
 
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