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Biggest regional price difference you've seen?

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This is in off topic because it's not directly asking about tech, mods please move if appropriate.

 

OK so I was looking up a specific SSD model on the Western Digital website:

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Price shown in image is $55, currently on sale for $49

 

$55. A reasonable price, I'd say. for that SSD. You can get them much cheaper, but this is from a reputable brand and is NVMe - so, whatever.

 

 

I live in the UK. So, just out of interest, let's see what the price is over there and...

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Price shown in image is £1449

 

Holy fucking hell....

Even allowing for exchange rates, That's roughly a 2700% increase!

 

So the purpose of this thread is twofold:

  1. Why? I can understand a slight increase, but why would it be that much?
  2. Has anyone ever found a regional price variation greater than this?

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pythonmegapixel

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that is quite odd, almost like a system error in pricing because that just doesn't make sense to have a gap like that, usually its like up to 50 bucks difference for the same item.

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Pricing error.

 

Also happens often on Amazon.

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