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>"Mark Spacey" <vax2002news@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >news:2la134Fahud0U2@uni-berlin.de...
>> The price of canon equipment in the USA is the same in dollars as it is
>> here in the uk
>> how can they possibly justifie the price difference
>> D10 sent to your door from america £670 including all taxes and vat + 2
>> years european warrenty
>> price here £1150

>Ask your silly socialist government.

>Rick

This is not the place for politics, anyway, the rip-off is as much due to the importers (usually the producers) as it is to government taxes.

PCR

p.s I know that I'd rather be ill in a country where they look my the problem first rather than the colour of my credit card (whoops, what did I day about politics).
 
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"PCR" <pcr_fr@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:40f1b416$0$20356$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
> >"Mark Spacey" <vax2002news@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:2la134Fahud0U2@uni-berlin.de...
> >> The price of canon equipment in the USA is the same in dollars as it is
> >> here in the uk
> >> how can they possibly justifie the price difference
> >> D10 sent to your door from america £670 including all taxes and vat + 2
> >> years european warrenty
> >> price here £1150
>
> >Ask your silly socialist government.
>
> >Rick
>

Whilst they are indeed "silly", our government is most definitely *not* a
"socialist" one.

Kline