WiiU selling for 259/309 @Amazon.de

[JEMC]

kitler53 said:

JEMC said:

kitler53 said:
...i'd just like to take a moment to remind all of our european consumers to take a second look at those non-vat prices. doing a straight conversion of US prices (pre-tax) vs. european prices (post vat) are not comparable.

Sorry but, what do you mean with that?

it's totally off topic.  it's just every few months someone starts a thread to complain that european prices are a rip off compared to american prices and then does a direct comparision of US and Europeon market listing and then starts complaining about MS, Sony, Nintendo, ect.

that listing for a "no vat" sales in spain reminded me of this.  once you subtract vat prices are really quite comparable between the regions.  so to all the future haters -- it's not nintendo/whoever that is ripping you off.

./end of rant

Ok. It's just that I'm a bit slow today and I didn't get your post.

And I agree that we should compare the prices in the same way, but given that in Europe the VAT is different from each country, we can't use a single number. Btw, VAT in Spain is 21%.