980 Price to drop to $499, EU Excluded

[ZetZet]

Fair enough, but holidays arent the majority of the year.

 

PS: austria is introducing a new "fee" for any storage media and printers + scanners. It means that we Austrians have to pay 6% more on the already ridiculous storage media prices lol.

In lithuania we already have a fee for storage media, supposedly to compensate artists for pirates. You litterally get charged money for buying a phone that has internal memory or a laptop or a hard drive or a cd.

[RagnarokDel]

Not sure how that was unexpected...

[sgloux3470]

Don't european prices factor in tax into the listed price?

 

 

 

 

[sgloux3470]

Yes.

 

So people are just being stupid then.

 

Germans pay an equivalent of $832 USD.  Tax in Germany is 19%.  $832 / 1.19  = ~$699 USD

In MURICA $649 * 1.07 sales tax = ~$694 USD.

[SubZeroKelvin]

For prices in France : Amazon.fr. GTX Titan X is around 1.2k€. All of these cards are with a reference cooler. I don't know about their PCB though.

[Brainless906]

So people are just being stupid then.

 

Germans pay an equivalent of $832 USD.  Tax in Germany is 19%.  $832 / 1.19  = ~$699 USD

In MURICA $649 * 1.07 sales tax = ~$694 USD.

 

Yeah, anyway that means that prices in Murica even with sales tax are lower than those in germany/europe without tax.

So you still end up like 25% more on the effective pricetag

 

Sale tax in the USA is on a per state basis, for instance in Michigan if i purchased from a a brick and mortar store i would pay $687.94 for a $649.00 card, however most online retailers do not charge sales tax and honestly i've not ever purchased a video card in store so I'd be getting a $649.00 card for $649.00 and likely wouldn't even pay for shipping.

[VagabondWraith]

Sale tax in the USA is on a per state basis, for instance in Michigan if i purchased from a a brick and mortar store i would pay $687.94 for a $649.00 card, however most online retailers do not charge sales tax and honestly i've not ever purchased a video card in store so I'd be getting a $649.00 card for $649.00 and likely wouldn't even pay for shipping.

I live in Ohio and paid $45 bucks in tax buying direct from NV. If I had gotten it from Amazon I wouldn't pay a dime for tax. NV was the only one with stock so I had no choice.

[Brainless906]

I'm starting to get jealous

 

I live in Ohio and paid $45 bucks in tax buying direct from NV. If I had gotten it from Amazon I wouldn't pay a dime for tax. NV was the only one with stock so I had no choice.

 

Technically I believe you're supposed to report "untaxed online purchases" when filing tax returns, so they could collect at that point.... but i've never actually known anyone who actually puts anything in that section...Also never known anyone to get audited on account of "untaxed online purchases"

 

dat 6.8% ohio tax, MI has a 6% so only slightly cheaper. Amazon is usually where i get my cards almost exclusively because no tax + Prime 2 day shipping

[hph6203]

You are supposed to file unpaid sales taxes for online purchases. In the United States there is not only a state sales tax, but also a local sales tax charged by the city (in most cases, some cities don't have a local tax). So the sales tax in Dallas, TX is 6.25% for the Texas state sales tax, and 2.0% for the city of Dallas sales tax. The highest in the US is a 10% sales tax in Montgomery, AL.

[sgloux3470]

Sale tax in the USA is on a per state basis, for instance in Michigan if i purchased from a a brick and mortar store i would pay $687.94 for a $649.00 card, however most online retailers do not charge sales tax and honestly i've not ever purchased a video card in store so I'd be getting a $649.00 card for $649.00 and likely wouldn't even pay for shipping.

 

Wait what, Americans don't pay sales tax online?

 

Here in Canada it just gets automatically applied when you checkout.

 

 

Yeah, anyway that means that prices in Murica even with sales tax are lower than those in germany/europe without tax.

So you still end up like 25% more on the effective pricetag

 

Wouldn't be surprised if it costs more to import it there too and you're just getting those tariffs added on.  I know Brazil has a huge issue with electronic imports because the tariffs are insane.

[typographie]

"In an unexpected move,

 

Was it? The 980 is significantly slower (20%+) than the 980 Ti. I think it really needed a price drop to remain relevant.

[Brainless906]

 

Wait what, Americans don't pay sales tax online?

 

Here in Canada it just gets automatically applied when you checkout.

 

 

 

Wouldn't be surprised if it costs more to import it there too and you're just getting those tariffs added on.  I know Brazil has a huge issue with electronic imports because the tariffs are insane.

 

 

Nope, some retailers do add tax as you mentioned but most of the big ones do not. For instance pretty much anything purchased through Amazon or newegg will not have tax 

 

as example Here is a $519.00 GPU that is purchasable for exactly $519.00

[sgloux3470]

Well consider me mad jelly.