Microsoft Follows Apple By Hiking Price of Surface Book Laptops in the U.K.

...and we haven't even left the EU yet.

The pain is only beginning.

...and we haven't even left the EU yet.

The pain is only beginning.

And the EU is not going to let us leave easy and rightfully so.

Both are overpriced for what they do - you can buy a refurbed Dell Latitude 7470 with i7 sky lake, 16GB of DDR4, 256GB SSD, 2560x1440 screen for $850 USD, $1000 less than what they're asking for - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-E7470-14-I7-6600U-16Gb-DDR4-256Gb-SSD-QHD-Touchscreen-Win10-Pro-/262845163402?hash=item3d32cae78a:g:eZwAAOSwopRYbVh-

1) Manufacturer refurbished.
2) US pricing, not UK.
3) Thick, bulky, and terrible battery life. There's more to a laptop specification than just CPU/RAM/SSD.

...but anybody with investments in the stock market and a half-decent financial planner has been doing very nicely: as sterling falls, the sterling value of US/Internationally traded companies goes up, and the uncertainty is doing wonders for gold/mining prices...

So, yeah, vote Brexit and strike a blow for ordinary people against the elite establishment (said a bunch of ex-stockbrokers and wealthy right-wing politicians who think "ordinary people" are those with portfolios of less than £10m).

You've just reminded me of the one good thing the weaker £ has brought me, a slight boost in foreign share holdings. Thanks. Every cloud and all that...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/11/mark-carney-signals-bank-of-england-may-raise-forecast-for-uk-economy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/eu-has-lose-hard-brexit-uk-mark-carney-says/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4110066/Time-say-sorry-Mr-Carney-Bank-England-governor-FINALLY-admits-Brexit-NOT-biggest-risk-UK-s-economy.html

http://news.sky.com/story/bank-of-england-raises-uk-growth-forecast-again-to-2-for-2017-10753130

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/02/bank-of-england-uk-growth-forecast-economy-brexit

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/03/pound-smashes-123-ahead-of-brexit-high-court-verdict-and-bank-of/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/31/ftse-100-edges-higher-pound-dips-125-investors-eye-eurozone/

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-sterling-idUKKBN15F0VD

Ah, all this I knew. You sold me "boom". These are revisions upward.

As I said, price gouging... if you look at the last reports, the pound had its strongest January against the dollar since 2011 this year, and yet all the prices are going up... :rolleyes:

Since the vote the pound has nose dived, simple facts. I and others have posted the graphs. Yet you're talking about January. January is a step up, Brexit caused a fall down a whole flight of stairs.

I imagine if you had a US company that dealt in the UK you would've just absorbed the 15-25% increased cost of dealing in sterling. :rolleyes:

The best example is Apples App Store, it's now increased its pricing so 1 pound equals 1 dollar, even though the pound is worth more. And how does that work out anyway because it's not like they import apps into the UK......

1 dollar plus tax, which varies depending on state. Whereas the pound figure includes VAT of 20%.



These are basic mistakes that lots of people make when comparing UK to US prices.

Well considering none of the doom and gloom predicted by financial experts has happened, I'll believe my facts thank you, considering it was all over the national press.

Not happened? Weekly shops more expensive, imported goods more expensive, Unleaded price per litre Jan 2016 = 102.3p, Jan 2017 = 115.0p, interest rates cut to all time lows (which makes savings accounts even more useless). It goes on and on.

The doom and gloom has already set in for me. And like I said earlier there's very little I can see changing that. But I hope things do improve.

Oh an we're still in the EU at the moment.

Both are overpriced for what they do - you can buy a refurbed Dell Latitude 7470 with i7 sky lake, 16GB of DDR4, 256GB SSD, 2560x1440 screen for $850 USD, $1000 less than what they're asking for - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-E7470-14-I7-6600U-16Gb-DDR4-256Gb-SSD-QHD-Touchscreen-Win10-Pro-/262845163402?hash=item3d32cae78a:g:eZwAAOSwopRYbVh-

Overpriced for you maybe. Some will see some value you can't see. Also you example is poor, it loses on build quality, materials and support. Not exactly apples to apples comparison.

Dumb question, but can people in the UK purchase Apple products from a U.S. store or person and use it as normal?

We get nice discounts off their overpriced products from big box retailers and they keep screwing you guys by increasing the price even more.

Sure you can. When you enter the UK, you pay your 20% VAT, and at that point the price is the same, but you have no consumer rights whatsoever since you didn't buy in Europe. If there is a fault after 12 months and one day, the Apple Store in the UK can tell you to please take your Mac to the store in the USA where you bought it.
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I didn't say they were making bad products. Apple level: popularity
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It is pricing gouging but ms don't need to follow that route. Apple is pulling this joke on their customers because of name brand. Ms don't need to follow that route.

Both Apple and Microsoft do this because the pound crashed. With the price changes and currency changes, Apple gets the same money from a Mac bought in the UK as a year before. Same for Microsoft.
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Cannot wait to be out of the EU.

You know you can leave the EU right now, if any country outside the EU is willing to take you. Think about it. Instead of migrants taking your job away, you could be a migrant and take their job away.