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HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

Here in Spain there's no chain stores dedicated to computer hardware. Most of what we have are local stores that also have an online store and deliver across the country (except the Canary Islands, but they have their own stores and taxes there are also different).

I mostly buy online, but I try to buy from stores in my city when possible, so I can pick up the parts in the store instead of waiting for them to be delivered.

As for the situation of the 9070 and 9070XT, I didn't pay too much attention as they're out of my price-range, but I've just checked to see what's available.

I haven't found an official price in Spain for the 9070, but the 9070XT should start at 720 €. Making a straight conversion with our 21% tax, the 9070 should come at around 665 €. I don't know if they were at that price when they went on sale, but these are the prices now in the 4 stores I've checked:

The cheapest 9070 is 750 € and it's still in stock, so 85 € more than it should. It's the PowerColor Hellhound OC.

The cheapest 9070XT is 820 € (Saphire Pure OC), but it's out of stock, and 870€ for one still in stock (Gigabyte Gaming OC), so 100 and 150 € more than it should, respectively.

I really hope the 9060s are more affordable.

Yeah, seems like "oh, you're in Europe, everything costs at least 20% more...and that's before tax" is heavily applied to 9070/XT as well.

I was checking Alternate yesterday and while a few 9070(XT) prices were excessive, most were actually quite good, especially for the XT. For reference, the German MSRP is 629€ for the 9070 and 689€ for the 9070XT. While only a very few models were MSRP, most 9070XT were nonetheless below 750€, which I would consider normal price hike for OC cards.