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[mpettitt]

€130 markup on European version, £120 markup on British version, and even £30 markup on converting from Euros to Sterling.

Fuck off Sony - PS3 in the UK should be, at most, £350, given the US price. Or £390 given the EU price. Not £425. We can do maths, you know, and you can't say that we cost that much more...

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[mpettitt]

Even so. They've blocked people from being able to ship them in from other regions, they've delayed release, and then they want to charge $200 per unit more? It just shows further that they don't care about EU markets, despite some of the top development houses being EU based...

[thepacifist]

They also have to add 17.5% VAT on items sold here, so that probably accounts for a large chunk of the markup...