iPod Mini Price Reduction!

[fondie]

a Rio Karma for £164 is crazy, 40gb, ogg support etc, anyone going to the US sometime soon with a little spare space in their suitcase?

[Stoo]

Most of this fuss is because of the extreme exchange rate at the moment.

Not really, we're *always* ripped off in the UK, other places even in europe tend to be at parity with american prices, where as we usually have to pay the same figure but in pounds, which is just wrong, there is no attempt to have retail parity.

[Aaron]

Not really, we're *always* ripped off in the UK, other places even in europe tend to be at parity with american prices, where as we usually have to pay the same figure but in pounds, which is just wrong, there is no attempt to have retail parity.

It's swings and roundabouts. Some things we get severly ripped off with but we get a good deal on other things (travel is one). Don't forget that US prices never include tax either...

[Stoo]

(air)Travel is probably about the only thing that isn't cheaper, pretty much anything else you care to mention is..

Houses, cars, electricals, food, clothes, fuel.. all cheaper, in fact the only other thing I can think of other than air travel is healthcare..

[bertie]

a Rio Karma for £164 is crazy, 40gb, ogg support etc, anyone going to the US sometime soon with a little spare space in their suitcase?

Rio karma is 20gb and quite the chunky fella

[acidrainy]

Try ordering apple parts on a usa site and seeing if they will ship them to the uk. They wont they are not allowed to by apple. They will ship any product as long as it isnt apple's to the uk . Trust me I've asked a bunch of places all had the same answer.

Thats got to be breeching something.... surley.?

[Gordy]

Thats got to be breeching something.... surley.?

You'd assume so wouldnt you. But the grey import market is erm a grey area in law