Is anyone else as confused as me when it comes to the pricing of Apple products in the South African market? Now let’s forget import taxes and dealer mark ups, let’s just look at the basic facts, clean and simple.
A Macbook is listed at $999. Locally, we’re looking at paying R11000 for a Macbook. So in that case, we take the dollar price and multiply it by 11 to find the ZAR price.
An iPhone 3GS 8GB on the Apple website is $99. Locally, an 8GB iPhone 3G is R7100. That is now suddenly 71 times more than the dollar price! 71 TIMES! Digicape, are you smoking crack? Have you got foetal alcohol syndrome? Are your directors raging alcoholics? Are you saving up for an end of year staff party in St Barts?
While Digicape don’t have iPhone 4 prices up yet, PC Direct do.
iPhone 4…how is this more expensive than a Macbook, when it is over three times cheaper in dollars?
They’re a cool R12782, that’s more expensive than a Macbook. Excuse me, but WTF is going on here? Are the South African public being treated like we have learning disabilities and can’t see what is going on here?
Let’s round that iPhone 4 price down to R12000 for the 32GB…that’s 40 times more than the dollar price. ($299 US) So the iPhone 4 is more expensive here than a Macbook, and yet a Macbook is $999 and an iPhone 4 is $299.
So the South African prices range from 11 times, to 40 times, to 71 times the dollar price…is no one else seeing this?
SERIOUSLY IT FEELS LIKE I’M ON CRAZY PILLS AT EARTHDANCE!
Can anyone provide me with answers?
Digicape?
PC Direct?
I guess it’s hard to speak though when you’re at your million dollar staff party, and there is an eight ball in your mouth.
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James MacDonald @jbigmac Website
August 30 2010 11:58 am Sean Lloyd Website