this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)
Data Hoarder
221 readers
1 users here now
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yikes. We see £1100 for two. That’s $1300 equivalent I think? Basically, twice the price in 🇬🇧 :(
Is that a consequence of brexit or something else that predates it?
No, WD drives are just more expensive in europe
(The price on the european websites already includes VAT, don't know if thats the case for the US website)
Yes, US prices all include the 0% VAT we have here.
US websites never include sales tax, because it varies by state and even municipality within a state. It can be 0%, it can be 8%.
Is it just WD or most tech things in general? Is it all about taxes? Forgive my ignorance I've never shopped abroad outside of touristy stuff.
In this case i was talking about WD specifically
Their website prices are virtually the same in the different versions of their european websites
for the 20TB red pro:
622 eur in germany
627 eur in france
556 pounds in the UK, which is 638 eur at the current exchange rate
So brexit doesn't seem to have an impact here, its just that WD sells at much higher prices in europe compared to the US
In general, hardware does tend to be a little bit more expensive in europe, but not by this much. WD seems to take it to a whole other level.