What's up with prices in Turkey?
Taxes and more taxes. Those who want to buy iPhone 14 Pro (128 GB) for 39 thousand 999 TL have to pay about 17 thousand 902 TL tax.
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#12Not sure if the site was updated, but there are multiple comments here about sales tax missing for the US price. The site clearly states it added that tax for Canada and the US, and shows two prices for each country reflecting the lowest and highest tax applicable based on where you buy the phone.
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#13What's up with prices in Turkey?
Exchange rate jumps very quickly. Apple does not like to update it often. So they project the expected value for next few months. Most likely they take the rate somewhere between 20-21TL. Last year today 1$=8.47TL now 1$=18.24TL. We try to buy things when the rate goes up but price is not updated yet. You can “save” 20-30% if lucky.
Import taxes is also much higher.
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#14The US price is pre-tax while others look post-tax. Also at least in the EU there is a longer warranty.
Yes it's two year warranty[0].
Although keep in mind that AFAIK this applies to consumers and if you buy with your business it might not apply -- learned this the hard way when my charger broke after 18 months.
[0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
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#15The US price is pre-tax while others look post-tax. Also at least in the EU there is a longer warranty.
Apple's warranty in the EU is not any longer.
The 2-year "warranty" required by law is not the same and only covers defects existing from the time of purchase, and after 6 months the burden of proof falls to the customer. In practice I've never seen this play out because almost all manufacturers (with Apple being an exception) offer 2-3 years of full warranty here either way.
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#16Tourists* in Japan can shop tax free (*yes I know)
What do you know?
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#17Quite a lot of this has to do with VAT which is always advertised as part of the price. In most of these countries I know they have VAT rates over 20%. In the US, sales tax is between 0 and 7.25 percent and is never advertised as part of the price. The US pays for this lack of VAT in other ways, either as taxes or in the services the government doesn’t provide. It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker…
Swedish VAT is 25%, but the price is ~35% higher
than the US. I think this is because the Swedish krona has lost value against the dollar over the last year, but I don’t think Apple has actually raised prices in Sweden (for the previous iPhone lineup).
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#18Quite a lot of this has to do with VAT which is always advertised as part of the price. In most of these countries I know they have VAT rates over 20%. In the US, sales tax is between 0 and 7.25 percent and is never advertised as part of the price. The US pays for this lack of VAT in other ways, either as taxes or in the services the government doesn’t provide. It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker…
> It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker shock, but it’s rather brilliant on the part of the governments since everyone is pissed at Apple for overcharging, not thinking about whether VAT is a good idea.
Oh, we're pissed at the government too... here in slovenia, we still have a "temporarily" higher VAT (literally called "crisis VAT") due to the 2008 economic crisis.
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#19Are you sure that you compare final price in all the countries? For example in the USA the price probably does not have sales tax, but in the European countries the price will most likely include VAT.
You’re right, but a base iPhone for 1000+ EUR is crazy.
No not really. That's the price here for high end smart phones, and it fit fine with purchasing power.
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#20Quite a lot of this has to do with VAT which is always advertised as part of the price. In most of these countries I know they have VAT rates over 20%. In the US, sales tax is between 0 and 7.25 percent and is never advertised as part of the price. The US pays for this lack of VAT in other ways, either as taxes or in the services the government doesn’t provide. It’s easy to forget all this while having iPhone sticker…
Isn’t it like 11% if you buy in New York? Like there’s a state and a government sales tax or something?
I remember being quite disappointed on my potential savings when I was on vacation in the us and thought I could make a steal on a MacBook Air.