Alain G wrote:
reader of American magazines in my crazy youth (photo magazines) I never quite understood the margins of certain European retailers.
The height is that Phillips is precisely European so you should at least "pee" the same price as us !!!!
There are so many price differences on many products, I can hardly understand why you pay so much when the euro is so high.
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The high taxation (19.6% and much more with the import tax outside the EC), and especially the margins of intermediaries and sellers makes the difference in Europe ...
For American products for example, we have them a little more expensive in € than they are sold in the US in $ ...
Example: a basic Sportster HD 1200 (Nighster) is worth
€ 10 all round in France, remains to see how much it costs in America ...
But it's not just that: we commonly find -20% on French-made manufacturing products sold in Germany for example ... suddenly cross-border workers are having a great time ...