I can confirm this impression. As a fairly frequent visitor to the
USA, I used to be able to pick up bargains at a considerable saving
over U.K. prices. In particular, I would wait until my next trip
before buying computing books, which were often sold in this country
on a pound=dollar basis.
Not any more! I've found recently that there's very little real
difference between U.S.A. and U.K. prices.
For REAL bargains, you must visit the middle-eastern Gulf states....!
CAS
On 09/01/07, Andy Random <andy.random@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Aitken wrote:
>
> > I'll wait to see when work will send me to the US before buying.
>
> I was fairly disappointed by how little the price difference was between
> the US and the UK when I was in California in November.
>
> In the past I've seen significant saving by buying while in the US, but
> this time despite the strength of sterling (or more exactly the weakness of
> the dollar) the price differential wasn't enough to tempt me to buy
> abroad.
>
> It's true I was comparing store prices in the US with online prices in the
> UK, and California isn't a cheap state in general, but when you are only
> saving 5 or 10 percent (on items costing less than 100 UKP) its hardly
> worth the possible hassles of buying abroad IMO.
>
> Andy
>
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