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Laptops way too expensive in Ireland

  • 21-03-2005 12:54pm
    #1
    bombjack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭


    If you look to the prices in general for laptops in Ireland, they are so lagged behind the other countries such France and Germany ... to get a good value better to buy it abroad, that's the bottom line after having spent some time looking for great deal...


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  • #2
    bombjack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭bombjack


    I was looking for good spec around Ireland for 1300E inc VAT...
    - 512M ram
    - 15.4 screen
    - 60Gb screen
    - wifi
    - 9700 radeon
    - Centrino 1.6

    nothing in Ireland
    I have found on a french website the toshiba M30X-142 for 1299E inc VAT
    In Ireland for similar spec you need at least 1700E, no way to get good spec for that price


  • #3
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    It's mostly due to the VAT and government that the prices are higher here than in europe. And they say rip-off ireland is a myth.. :rolleyes:


  • #4
    dubdvd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭dubdvd


    Its no myth ....its bare fact ....the taxes here are a joke if they weren't so sad ...as you can see the same spec laptops in germany we say are a fair lot cheaper because their goverment are not as big gangsters as our own ..... :rolleyes:


  • #5
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    I cant agree more with you there. The damn government here is probably the most corrupt pile of muppets ever assembled.


  • #6
    rsynnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Tho it's worth noting their income taxes are, erm, a little higher than ours (high band, anyway).


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  • #7
    yak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭yak


    cheapest websites for lappies that i have come across are all german, i'd be surprised if you couldnt a similiar spec one for a grand on

    www.notebooksbilliger.de r somewhere similiar

    as for the taxes... they are a different kettle of fish entirely...
    in german you taked for being catholic/prodestant etc... so what you save in one place you loose in another... except in the land of the internet that is!


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