[Elecraft] European Elecraft prices - comment from the man who makes the prices ;-)

[Tony Wells]

Peter wrote:

>For all member countries of the EC (European Community) VAT is paid by the
>importer. All EC endusers pay the same price. Therefore the price on our

I'm inclinded to agree with the original calcs,  price and delivery
analysis -  most people pay by credit card and the delivery is about 4 days,
shorter if you pay more.

VAT has to be paid in EC on all items, whether coming from Germany or  US,
or anywhere else and I think that was taken into account in the calcs.

What I am interested in, with my commercial, self-interested hat on, is what
added value a European distributer/agency can add to the supply and support
for elecraft kits. I can't see much added value myself, but perhaps Peter
might be able to help on this. Perhaps it is a language thing? Perhaps it is
an issue for hams who are not Internet users? Maybe there are a lot of
people in Europe who are not comfortable speaking or typing  English?

The area of added value I can see is not Elecraft-specific, is to provide a
place for the general user of qrp  kits - which is good I think. However,
there is a kind of circular argument here, in that if a qrp user gets an
Elecraft kit, they are IMHO very unlikely to buy another qrp kit again,
except another Elecraft! And if it's cheaper to buy from the US then.....

IMHO

Tony
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