EU HW Prices
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Lets bitch in this thread on European HW prices.
We should get in the streets and protest, this is unacceptable !!!
>>51575422
go to sleep
>>51575422
People in western eu won't give a damn, most Germans are richer than Americans. In eastern eu though you have to work for 3 months straight without eating or paying your bills so you can afford the cheapest iPhone. Just fuck my shit up, fäm.
>>51575422
>no Croatian flag
Government need the VAT receipts
>>51577072
Also refugee tax.
What's HW?
Belgium reporting in
>>51577109
hardware
>>51577109
Le 'ardware
>>51577058
>balkan thieves
>yurop
gr8 meemee
just cuz ur in EU doesn't mean you're important
>>51575422
Enter /g/ the other day.
>"Hey guys, AMD prices dropped during Black Friday"
Check any decent european HW e-shop.
Nope, no price drop.
I wait to the next day. Maybe the prices will happen then, I think.
Nope. Fuck my yuropoor ass.
>>51577130
>>51577131
OKay, I'm an idiot. Yeah, and prices are high, especially GPU's it seems
>elect politicians that put huge taxes on everything they do
>wonder why shit is expensive
enjoy your welfare benefits for refugees
>>51575422
Try not being poor.
>>51577197
Because a quarter of the price is tax.
It's the only logical result when everyone votes for socialist scum.
>>51577372
What are the chances if Trump loses in the US against shillary, we can elect him as EU leader? Make Europe great again!
>>51575422
EU prices are great compared to swiss prices
I bought my hw from Germany. It's really cheap there as seen to Finland.
>>51575422
It's not that HW is expensive in Europe, it's that Europeans are (relatively) poor. Europe is somewhere between the third world and anglo countries in terms of your economic development. Sorry but it's true. I'm from UK and I've been to Europe several times and the difference in your living standards is immediately noticeable, and you're all using like 5-10 year old phones, old cars, worn out clothes, poor infrastructure... Maybe instead of bitching and blaming everyone else you should start working more than like 30 hours a week and cut down on your bureaucracy and siestas. Be a bit more like us, essentially.
>>51577404
One can dream. A nice, thick wall wouldn't go amiss right now.
>>51577492
I work 40 hours a week for an American company and I make like €500 a month. Fuck off.
>>51577492
What? The UK is poorer than Benelux, Germany, Scandinavia... you're not in the same group as the US or Australia.
>>51577560
You're off your meds mate, Europe is far poorer than the UK. When is the last time your economy even grew? Hasn't it been stagnating and in crisis for like a generation now? There are Europeans fucking everywhere in the UK now because they literally can't even feed their kids in Europe your economy is so shit.
>>51577492
>like 5-10 year old phones
>worn out clothes
>old cars
>all of europe
>>51577649
Your thoughts aren't in sync with reality.
You're poorer than France: https://www.gfk.com/news-and-events/press-room/press-releases/Pages/GfK-Purchasing-Power-Europe-for-201415-.aspx
>>51575422
Please don't go on the streets Europeans
You'll all get killed by terrorists and we'll have to change our Facebook profile pictures again
>>51577058
> implying Croatia wasn't just admitted as a cheaper vacation country than Malta
>>51577649
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23655605
>>51577759
lmao! Uk poorer than FRANCE? You're clearly off your head on something mate. Listen you can protest all you want but the fact remains that Europeans are in Britain cleaning our bins, sweeping our streets and making our coffee because your economy is so shit and there are no jobs. Every time I turn on the news or open a paper there's a story about how shit Europe's economy is. People living in tents, 50% unemployment, people working 30 hour weeks, I read a story the other day about how some European country people are digging up their grandparents fucking graves because they can't afford to by new coffins and plots of land to bury their parents in they're so poor.
Not our fault your continent is a stagnating mess. Stop being lazy, work harder and get rid of your bureaucracy and maybe one day you can be successful like us. Then you can afford decent graphics cards. Until then stop whining.
>that uk guy that doesn't realize he's living in Europe
>that uk guy that thinks he's more money than france, germany, swiss, liechtenstien...
Not everyone in Europe is from romania (which even isn't that poor really)
>>51577759
>poorer than france
Ouch britfag on suicide watch.
But forreal that guy probably went to spain or italy twice on vacation to get his pasty white skin baked. People there actually are a few years behind in fashion/technology. Northern yurop is on a whole different level though.
>>51578171
> Romanian detected
>>51577034
Polandfag here, can confirm.
A lot of people here have windows phones because of their good specs/price ratio
>>51578171
> Romania isn't too poor, they can afford more than 1 potato a week
>>51578088
What are you on about mate? Are you retarded? Greece/Spain/Italy are shitholes and poor as fuck. Their economies are failing hard, but the last time I checked so was Ireland's.
The people cleaning your trash are most likely from eastern europe which is an even bigger shithole. The part of Europe that actually matters (Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium Luxembourg) is richer than the UK.
>>51578088
You know most of the mainland Europeans you see working shit jobs there are from Eastern Europe, right?
The UK is actually becoming poorer relative to the rest of Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tec00114&plugin=1
>>51578223
>>51578204
I'm french but I was in romania (during one of my 10 weeks of paid hollyday a year, take that rest of the world!)
I just went to the big cities and it isn't as bad as I had imagined. Maybe the fact that they are in the EU now allow them to get a substantial amount of money to improve their infrastructures.
Sure it was not the richest country out there but largely better than ukraine, moldova, serbia or macedonia.
>>51577284
I honestly, unmemeingly wouldn't mind paying double the price for hardware if the alternative was to live in the only country in Earth that unironically considers Trump a viable candidate for presidency.
>>51578417
We could exchange our passports if trump wins then
just order from US even if there is 20% tax its still worth showing the EU seller scumbags what the prices should be like
>>51578088
>this is what Britkeks actually believe
The nationalist propaganda is working wonders I see
>>51578451
>EU seller scumbags
It's not really their fault when half the price is taxes.
>>51578451
Isn't shipping expensive as fuck though
>>51578491
Shipping costs are fucking ridiculous. Customs taxes are fucking ridiculous. Paying fucking ridiculous customs taxes on the fucking ridiculous shipping costs is the apex of fucking ridiculousness.
>>51578088
>>>51577759
>Every time I turn on the news or open a paper there's a story about how shit Europe's economy is. People living in tents, 50% unemployment, people working 30 hour weeks, I read a story the other day about how some European country people are digging up their grandparents fucking graves because they can't afford to by new coffins and plots of land to bury their parents in they're so poor.
Holy shit are your media already brainwashing you this hard? That's some 1984 tier shit there, senpai
>tfw couldve gotten a one month old msi 980ti for 520 instead of 730 euros but missed out by a few mins
Kill me already fäm
>>51577492
> lives in UK
> speaks of Europe as if UK doesn't belong to it
Hardware prices are not as ridiculous as software prices though.
A few years ago I had to buy Adobe CS4.
I got a boxed version from USA, paid for overseas shipping, then import taxes etc and it was still almost 20% cheaper than if I got it in EU.
>>51578603
Europeans are foreign
>>51578491
the fucking shipping from US to EU is sometimes cheaper than shipping from within EU ... disgusting, the taxes are usually 20%, the shipping lets say for gpu could be around 15 to 30 dollaridos depending if tracking is provided etc.
>>51578635
jewuropa
>>51578488
that's not true, the tax is around 20%
>>51578488
this desu senpai.
>>51578603
It doesn't though. Britkucks have no euro, have no metric system (officially they do but they still use >muh imperial system of the Queenkuck), they are also not part of schengen, and they drive on the left, and they have that shitty imperial wall plug instead of europlug. UK isn't really a part of Europe.
>>51578743
fuck the UK, beers shit, always raining, uptight high maintenance bitches ...
>>51578743
My God what am I reading?
Are you seriously mistaking the European Union with Europe? Your head is filled with so much crap I don't know where I should start from
>>51577034
Not richer than americans, but I can certainly confirm the second part.
our wages are the like twice of those in America, our taxes is slightly higher but in the end, we get the same prices.
Maybe if you had a job it wouldn't be so bad.
>>51575422
Pay your debts Greece
Who gives a shit?
Please don't tell me you're some kind of consumerist retard?
I don't understand why on earth would anyone buy a new smartphone/computer/laptop/whatever more frequent than like every 4-5 years.
>>51578732
~20-23% vat, depending on country
+ higher than US income taxes
+ higher costs of everything: transport, storage, workers etc
+ more stupid regulations
>>51578873
Even when you buy a phone once every 5 years, it still sucks ass that when you take the {phone price} / {hourly wage} ratio, you have to work 8x longer to buy it than the US guy.
>>51578700
Where do you live? When I built my rig in Germany, all shipping costs were between 0 and 10€
America here. How rich am I?
>>51577058
budget Italy desu
>>51579004
And thanks to that:
- you can graduate from college for 0€ and without student loans
- you can get quality healthcare for 0€
- you can rest assured the food you eat doesn't have transgenic high-fructose corn syrup sponsored by Monsanto
- you can drive much safer cars in case you don't want to use the cheaper public transportation (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/new-ttip-scandal-car-industry-buried-report-revealing-us-car-safety-flaws-10514716.html)
>>51579113
if you came to pooland you'd be rich as fuck
minimum wage after tax is ~7.65 zł/h, and currently 1 dolaroo = 4 złoty
so if you you're earning $4k/mo you earn monthly what a factory worker gets here in a year
>>51579113
Vote for Trump, that is all I can say. If Sanders gets elected, get ready for a shitload of taxes. He's a kuck and doesn't realize that the Scandinavians pay a shitload of their incomes for "free" education/healthcare.
>>51579173
yes. But also thanx to that, everything is more expensive. It's not, like >>51578451 said, because sellers are scumbags
>>51579173
>you can get quality healthcare
lol no
>>51578732
>20% in Europe
Definitely not Norway, 80% of Income goes to the state... Fuckings fees and taxes
Most of the tax and fee Money goes to immigrant NEET's..... Norway yes
>>51579173
>quality healthcare
Yeah, you have to wait 6 months for an appointment, and if you have cancer you probably die without a doctor checking you out. Nice meme though.
>>51579706
That's what the majority of your people chose. Isn't democracy just great?
>>51577759
France's purchasing power is complete fucking garbage, the tax man is so deep in our pockets, what we're left at the end of the day is barely enough to feed ourselves.
There's been this huge exodus this past couple of years of Frenchmen who are so sick of it they end up immigrating to Canada, Quebec where the cost of living is a hundred times lower while also having better job opportunities.
The left is cancer.
Just go to UK
>>51579845
>majority of your people chose
All political parties loves it, try making a New party that is against it and the media and SJW will give you a huge shitstorm
Fun fact is most People here still believes the lie that Norway is the richest country in the world
ITT :Yuropoors don't even know about Australian prices
>>51575422
>want to buy WD caviar blue 1TB
>price is 56€
>wait for black friday
>price of the HDD is now 70€ and 56 with the discount.
How the fuck is this shit allowed ?
And I can find dozen and dozen of examples in many websites in France.
FX-8350 that I bought 145€ without any discount was ~ 185€ normally in the internet for few weeks now. Price was set to 210 and 189€with a discount.
Fuck this shit.
>>51579973
Same exact thing in Spain, and everywhere else I suppose. There are some (few) legit good deals, but the vast majority are just scams.
>>51578256
>italy is poor
Nice meme
>>51579098
In the US shipping for 15 pieces of hardware would be <$10 combined
>>51580089
But Italy is and has always been poor
>>51580139
But that's not true and even today it's only the south >>51578295
>>51580139
It's right, Churchill
>>51578256
>but the last time I checked so was Ireland's.
must have been ~5 years ago.
Ireland has a stronger economy stronger than most of Europe
Is this /pol/?
If i want to get a gpu from germany to greece will i have to pay custom fees?
>>51579368
more expensive than college debt? I think not
>>51580347
Ofcourse not, EU means free trade of goods you idiot
>>51580449
good im glad to hear that desu
>>51575422
>Latvia
>Estonia
>no Lithuania
Heh, tas gan ir labs joks.
>>51580446
more expensive than the same hardware in US
also
>not getting a scholarship to get you through college
>>51579973
>>want to buy WD caviar blue 1TB
>>price is 56€
>>wait for black friday
>>price of the HDD is now 70€ and 56 with the discount.
Congratulations you fucking retard, you just discovered marketing
>>51580347
keep in mind, you might pay greek vat instead of german, so it'll be 3% more
>>51580347
But I haven't seen a shop that doesn't show price with VAT included so it's not that hard to compare them.
But this way we appreciate it more when we finally buy that stupid thing it took months of work :)
t.yuropoor
>>51577492
>be mainland europoor
>go to UK for a holiday
>everything is literally 4 times as expensive
>everything is ancient shit
>everyone uses ancient hardware
I have no idea where in the UK you are from but what I've seen wasn't that nice
he'll every house here is more modern than your average garbage housing
>>51580150
>b-but the fucking southies
Fucking secede already you keks
>>51580674
>he'll
Jesus fucking Christ
>>51580863
Mobile phone keyboard senpai
Excuse the word replacements
>>51580906
I don't give a shit about your excuses. Use "she'll" from now on or literally fuck off.
It's idiots like you who support Trump.
>Europe will soon be mostly Muslims
>USA will then intervene bringing "freedom"
>Europe will be taken over by USA and have unified economy
>Mudslimes will be eradicated
>Everybody wins
>>51581012
>unified eurmurrica
>everybody wins
I'd rather give my entire country to poland
>>51578795
UK has absolutely nothing to do with Europe. Europe = poor foreign continent full of weirdos and has-beens who spend their time hating Britain when they're not scrounging off us, Europeans = foreigners who clean our bins. Nothing to do with the EU, way it's always been. Come to UK and try and tell someone they're from Europe. Best result is they'll look at you strangely, worst case punch you in the face. And I'm 100% serious.
>>51581088
>UK
>not has-beens
If it weren't for the Russian millionaires controlling London you're entire country would be a joke
Also the UK has the biggest and most misguided sense of patriotism
>>51581151
>Russian
Jewish
>>51581088
> UK has nothing to do with Europe
> English is a germanic language like German and 50% of the languages in Europe
> literally 70% of English culture is based on French and Italian culture
> UK was inhabited by uncivilized, unlearnt and barbarian populations until french nobles took UK over
What kind of twisted brainwashing did your government force on your inept minds in order to make you forget about your roots? Get your shit together, George
Here in the UK the prices are fine?
Fury X is £489 which is good
Oh I forgot 6700k is fucking £340 why the FUCK is it priced so high suddenly? I am fucking waiting until January and praying prices drop
>>51580579
except it's forbidden.
>>51581539
>>51581539
>French and italian culture
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHABHAA
Fucking hell man, British culture is different from fucking everywhere else except Australia, especially fucking Scottish culture
Just shut the fuck up europoor, you can keep struggling to work for €400 a month my friend
>>51581693
>Being this delusional
Britfriend, where did you get all this misinformation from?
Didn't they teach you anything at that boy's only kuckschool you attended?
>>51581693
>kekland
>such a liberal hellhole the native community is now the minority
LOL
>>51581693
> considering himself a special snowflake
> being this ignorant of the culture of his country
> being this misinformed about the condition in the other countries
Maybe you're right, you really don't share anything with us europeans after all :)
>>51581906
>mass murders, rapes, assaults, spread of disease against the native population
>the police do absofuckinglutely nothing about it, even if they tried they wouldn't get anywhere with it
>meanwhile no one is even talking about it
kukland.
>>51575422
What is there to bitch about? You get to use that play money you all use instead of genuine dollars. Seems like you people have it made not having to worry about money and bills and shit.
>>51582500
>Not having to worry about money and bills and shit
>anywhere
>ever
Money and bills are universal
