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- shutdown
wish I could buy stuff from the apple US website.
with the $ being so good against the £ everything is almost half price
- r_gaberz0
I know what you mean. I think I could screw the student discount..... fly to new york, pick up a 23" display fly back and would still have spend the same amount as if i would have bought it here in Austria.
taxes could be a problem though :)
- ORAZAL0
I got a laptop from the US, the price difference was 500€, I had bought there and mailed through people I knew though. The mailing was 100$ so if you people there it's worth it.
- designerror0
i did a calculation on DK vs. US prices last year when buying in a Apple store and I could fly from Copenhagen to NY , stay at a hotel in Manhatten for three days, eat and drink pretty good, walk down to the Apple SoHo Store and buy a 15" Powerbook and fly back to Copenhagen and still save a great deal of money.. and that was last year... now I could stay a week at the Plaza and still save money..
- Stylus0
my bro's wife is running a laptop smuggling ring between Sydney and San Fran. Paid like 2k for a computer that you couldn't even buy here at the time and are now like 4k
- DutchBoy0
everything is cheap in the US. They just don't know. My brother in law bought almost everything there.. camera's, computer stuff etc..
- waynepixel0
Right that it. I am going to get in contact with my cuisine in San francisco and see if he can get me a G5 on the cheap.
The thing I am worried about is customs.
- E__________0
laptop is not a problem since you can just unpack it and say you brought it with you to the us for business. Ipod the same. Other stuff is also a lot cheaper like cloths and woman. Probably no problems with customs there either.
- r_gaberz0
I actually know somebody who could send me a powerbook.
The only thing that worries me is that I have no clue about the support and guarantee situation. Could there be any problems ?
- shutdown0
just do it, the money you save can go towards fixing it if it goes wrong
- mercy670
Bottom line, you send it back to Apple in Cali.
"I relocated... sorry, not my problem. Fix my f**king machine"
- Gilt0010
You guys are right. I'm coming to Europe in March and it's gonna cost me plenty because of the low value of the US dollar.
I never really thought of it from the European view though. You guys look at us the way we look at Canada.
- DutchBoy0
well, but then i don't live in Scandinavia.
You can double or triple the cost of anything you need there compared to here, even tax!