Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
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Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
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Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#2Can you see a reference to them charging VAT? If not, that's pretty ludicrous.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#3"... for $99/year (or $9,99/month), which is a pretty good deal (Google Drive 1TB also costs $9,99/year). "
Should it say "/month" on Google Drive as well? Because otherwise, if those prices are correct then Google Drive is a lot cheaper, but the article implies that it has the same price.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#4Can you see a reference to them charging VAT? If not, that's pretty ludicrous.
My first thought was this as well - we tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe, but it's almost always without in the States, no?
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#5"... for $99/year (or $9,99/month), which is a pretty good deal (Google Drive 1TB also costs $9,99/year). " Should it say "/month" on Google Drive as well? Because otherwise, if those prices are correct then Google Drive is a lot cheaper, but the article implies that it has the same price.
Fixed :)
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#6Yeah I hate it when I have to pay more for a service as a European.
It might seem silly but that's the reason I cancelled my Spotify account, I didn't want to pay a 'European' premium. I hate it when they check from which country your creditcard number is - Netflix is nice that they allow you to register in a different country with a VPN & don't check the credit card country.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#7Can you see a reference to them charging VAT? If not, that's pretty ludicrous.
My first thought was this as well - we tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe, but it's almost always without in the States, no?
You can count on the iOS in-app purchase to include VAT. There is no way to bypass that without violating the apple ToS since you'd effectively be charging a different value than you're saying.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#8Can you see a reference to them charging VAT? If not, that's pretty ludicrous.
My first thought was this as well - we tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe, but it's almost always without in the States, no?
America doesn't have a VAT. Internet services seldom have any tax requirement at all. Laws vary, but the onus is on the customer to pay local and state taxes. There is federal sales tax at all.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#9http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro
vs.
http://store.apple.com/de/buy-mac/macbook-pro
Same concept. You can't have the price of good fluctuating all the time in Europe because the relationship between the dollar and euro have changed. They fix the price, it accounts for VAT and sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.
Re: Weird pricing of Dropbox Pro
#10Or it could just be a standard pricing trick where you let the customer think they're getting a great deal by "working the system" when it's actually what you intended them to do all along.
Dan Ariely has some good examples of this in his talks/books.