The price these South Africans take is the US retail price, but it also works for Apple prices in the Emirates, Singapore, Brazil, HK, Malaysia etc.
We don't know what Amazon pays Apple for the stock, it's definately less than the retail price. We can also contend that if CORE is the Authorised Apple Reseller here in SA (Apple laptops sold by core are under warranty when you fly to NY) Core gets Apple stock at less than these retail prices.
Core does not go to an iStore and buy up stock then sell it here. If it does, then Apple is screwing us over. Get it?
I'm glad you mention reason because salaries in the US are HIGHER than in SA. I know my salary is over 5x. I also know that other peoples' salaries are in a similar range - I have numerous friends who've settled in the US.
Its the same for the EU.
Note that if you look at the salaries and the prices of products everything is cheaper in the US - cars are cheaper, electronics is cheaper and so on. I guess I could be defeating my own argument here but the point is that IF CORE is the approved authorised SA agent for Apple then Apple sells CORE stock at a lower price than retail, they certainly don't sell stock at a higher than retail price or CORE would buy direct from iStores. If Apple is doing that then Apple is saying a big F-YOU to SA fans and customers. If Core gets stock from Apple at a cheaper discounted rate and is not passing the savings to us then it's CORE's fault. Then Apple is guilty of going along with this daylight robbery. Either way Apple is damned.
When you import lots of stock - like say CORE does, you don't ship each piece by super expensive FedEX. It gets shipped in bulk by container ship at a reduced rate. Secondly the tax Core pays can be negotiated with SARS and will not be more than you pay - besides it is all VAT which you pay anyway at the end or most of it is VAT.
Well they can't do anything about it short of boycotting Apple products or contributing lots of cash and funding an ad campaign against Apple/Core or taking one or the other to court and suing them. No-one will go that far, however in a free society people have the right to point out inconsistencies.
You haven't read what I've said. Apples don't cost more than non-Apples.
To compare a MBP you must take a high end SONY VAIO and these two cost the same - about R25,000-30,000. Don't compare a huge, low res, PC laptop with 1.5 hours battery life and junk build quality vs a Mac with a high res screen, 8 hours battery life, more solid feel, lighter build and a bigger HDD and better graphics card. What people are on about is the price discrepancy between identical products between SA and HK, Singapore and USA.
They don't. A Dell Mac Pro workstation costs more or at least the same as a Mac Pro. A high end Vaio costs the same or more than a Mac Book Pro.
Apple just doesn't make cheap netbooks and cheap Celeron notebooks - they have a huge gap in their lineup. Everyone knows a Prius costs less than a i535 BMW but a high end Lexxus will also cost as much as an i535 and will have the same features.
Hardly. American consumers are the most price conscious in the world. They want cheap that's why the world is flooded with cheap junk from China and jobs are being moved out of the USA. You're pretty clueless, aren't you?
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