Is Euro less worth?
Hello, I don’t understands about the prices, can you help me?
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Hi Eduards,
After sending this to our EU team, they have altered the price of this product to more accurately reflect the US price. I hope this helps!
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The Euro is worth about .65 Au dollars, 65 cents, so 65 Euro's would be $100 Au. I was wrong, Euro is 58.8 cents, USD is 62.7 cents.
So you always need more aussie dollars to buy your stuff .... is the basic answer :)
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Hi there Eduards,
Sorry for the delay. I'm waiting on clarification from our EU store to answer your question. Thanks for your patience.
by Kristen Gismondi
@kristen The Euro is worth about .65 Au dollars, 65 cents, so 65 Euro's would be $100 Au. I was wrong, Euro is 58.8 cents, USD is 62.7 cents.
So you always need more aussie dollars to buy your stuff .... is the basic answer :)
by Ric
@prabbit70 You are obviously not familiar with currencies and exchange rates and you're just making a mess with what is needed to buy what.
At today's rates 1€ equals to 1.68 AUD
That means that you need 65€cents to buy one AUD, not the other way round. Same goes for the US$ of course, one AUD buys less than 65US$ cents today, hope you can figure that out with some patience and a calculator. As for the original question, a partial answer is that US prices do not include state taxes, that will vary from state to state and are added after purchase, whereas in EU it's mandatory to include VAT to consumer prices, which is roughly 18 to 22% depending on country.
Localization and other marketing costs may play a role too, although the difference still seems substancial even after that.
by arbaman
@arbaman What I've found helps when I import something from another country is I use the Google conversion calculator to get a rough idea that's fairly correct. I don't really bother with cheap stuff from China since the price is generally not much more, but for major imports that's the best way to calculate it IMO.
It probably isn't perfect and may be off, but my experience has been it's pretty close. The issue for us in the US is banks that charge conversion fees, but it's usually only a few cents on top of the final price. In the US we get a ~$800 duty free allowance here, so most personal imports are duty free - if it's exempted, you're even better off.
by Nick