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Rip Off Britain
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Why do we just accept it?
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We don't. We don't buy Wings or Rockets.
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Honda Goldwing costs £5000 less in USA
A Made in 'Rip Off Britain' Rocket 3 costs £3000 less in USA
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Prices in the US are quoted without sales tax, as this
varies from state to state, upto around 10%. They also
exclude the registration fee as again this varies.
For example, California sales tax is around 8% and you
then pay a further registration fee.
In the UK, by law (IIRC), prices for consumers must be
quoted to include all applicable taxes, so the figures
quoted will include 10% vehicle duty and a further 17.5%
VAT on top.
You may also want to consider that the US has a much
bigger market, so the prices can be lowered slightly
as volume purchases by the importer can attract
lower prices, and savings passed onto the consumer.
Besides, if you don't like it, you can always move there.
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Rocket 3
US$15000 = GB£7700
+ VAT = GB£9050
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Also he didn't add Federal and State taxes to the US$ price.
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What a company charges for a product in a particular market is up to
them, wouldn't you say? If Triumph can sell Rocket 3s for 12k in the
UK, then good luck to them. If they can't, then they'll reduce the
price.
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Agreed.
The first line of my post was:
"Why do we just accept it?"
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Could be worse:
Rocket 3 France - 17 990 € TTC = £12133 ish ?
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So don't buy one then.
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Many people do.
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Ah, but they're buying a lifestyle accessory. You can't put a price on
that.
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I don't, as I have no intention of buying a Rocket 3 - certainly not
at that price.
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so, there is a price at which you'd consider buying one?
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You are in no position to morally judge about how anyone runs their
business (especially when you trespass on private property peeping
through the front room window.
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You run a business from home do you Tone? It (or more correctly bits of
it) is no longer private property then, it is a shop/office or factory
as defined in the 1968 Act of a similar name.
Here's looking atcha.
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The company have not started trading yet and that depends what type of
business. If you are writing a book or developing computer software the
rules are different.
You still have a right of privacy unless you are running a limited
company or A public limited company and also it depends of what country
its registered in..
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Surely that means he's now subject to paying business rates rather than
council tax on the property. Do his local council know about this
business of his yet?
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Only if you start trading, this is just classed as a hobby that will
become a business in the future at the moment (unless you can prove
otherwise).
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It rather depends. A one man consultancy type thing is generally
ignored for these purposes, especially if the work itself is done
elsewhere, ie a push bike courier with his home as a registered address.
This though only really applies to local authority taxes and rubbish
collection, employee and consumer protection legislation makes no such
distinctions.
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The dogger warden probably does.
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Oh, sure. If it was, say, £9.99, I reckon I'd find room for it
somehow.
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AOL. The thing with bikes such as the Rocket 3, is that there is
little competition for it, so if that's the kind of bike you're after,
you'll pay whatever you have to. Or not, as the case may be.
I feel the same with the BMW K1200R Sport - I quite fancy one having
sat on one at the NEC. There are a lot of bikes out there for a lot
less money, and many can and do say "Gixxer Thou" or "ZX10R" because
you certainly get a lot of bike for the dosh.
However, it's not as simple as that if you don't want a supersports
bike.
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The other part of the equation is that in America they'll sell a lot=20
more of those over-bloated monstrosities, so they can make economies on=20
the supply chain side of the business.
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