A news website called Fast Company has this:
Due to Apple price hikes in the U.K., it’s now
cheaper for Brits to fly round-trip to the U.S. to buy a MacBook Pro
On
Thursday, Apple raised prices by as much
as £500 on its products sold in the U.K.—thus
making it cheaper to buy a round-trip ticket to the U.S. or Canada to buy your
latest device and fly back to London, reports the Financial Times.
For example, a MacBook Pro just jumped in price from £2,499 to £2,999,
Question:
1) Is it true? Here’s an opportunity to do some research
and to find out.
2) Are there any
other products for which this is true too?
Comments:
2) Various other
things have risen in price (reportedly) recently, from Marmite to tea
bags. Presumably it doesn’t make sense
to fly to the USA to save 20p on a jar of Marmite. It also doesn’t seem sensible to buy a fridge
in the US because the cost of shipping it to the UK would more than wipe out
any saving. A car would also have
shipping costs, but worse than that it would be incompatible with the UK,
because the steering wheel would be on the ‘wrong’ side (while legal to drive
it would be annoying). Which other goods
fall into these categories?
Small electronic devices (like laptops and iPads) would seem
to be ones it would be sensible to fly to the US to buy. Are these the only things?
