Square Enix statement

[Snugglebutt]

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Your not adding knowledge to the debate since you have no idea about our tax system or our tariffs...your just making wild assumptions while at same time complaining that other people are making assumptions about SE's reason for pricing it the way they did. I am telling you from within the country I live in aka the UK, that neither of those things make up for the discrepancy between the EU version and the UK version so stop using that specific excuse because it is not a valid one.

Anyone who thinks SE made the UK price what it is because of anything more than laziness, greed or incompetence is in my opinion very likely wrong because even if it was based on the tax, customs, delivery, NMW, our trade agreements with the EU and our currency strength or whatever excuse come up with then it would not equal exactly the same price in each country aka pretty much 130 GBP/130 EUR/130 USD.

It is blatantly obvious to me they just put same figure for all and simply swapped the currency symbol on each with no regard for actual economic differences. If they took the economics into account and regional difference in tax rates, import or export fees, NMW or whatever other excuses have been given here then it would not equal the same price in each country no matter which excuse you use. Our country actually gives huge discounts to the gaming industry both in terms of tax and tariffs compared to a lot of other EU nations.

I am not mad at you by the way, I am not even mad at SE...I am disappointed in SE and do not care much either way about you. I am however telling you that your excuse is not valid because if it was valid then there would not be such a huge discrepancy between the EU and the UK price in real terms. This thread is attempting among all the others to get an answer and justification for the price difference on the UK physical CE from SE. Any discussion or arguing among each other is nothing more than tangents, the threads goal is clearly getting an answer from SE and not other players.

[Kiara]

BTW, doesn't the EU versions ordered from Square get Free Shipping?

I know it doesn't make up the difference in cost, but it does help reduce the discrepancy a bit.

[Snugglebutt]

BTW, doesn't the EU versions ordered from Square get Free Shipping?

I know it doesn't make up the difference in cost, but it does help reduce the discrepancy a bit.

Both the EU and UK versions get such except the products are being dispatched from the UK (I think) to both customers in the UK and EU. So it doesn't explain why the UK version costs much more then the EU version, especially since the EU version is fairly close to cost of the the US version. The fact that all three from US, UK and EU versions all cost 130 is too much of a coincidence to rule out that SE quite likely just chose one price and switched the currency symbols without regard for anything else. What we really need is SE to step up the the plate and answer why they are charging vastly more from their UK customers.

[Darra]

I keep seeing the same information being passed around about currency rates and taxes being what accounts for price differences. Whilst this is in part true, it's also not the whole truth. This BBC article discussed it back when people realised the PS4 in the UK was more expensive than it should have been when accounting for currency exchanges, taxes and extra overheads: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22868787 Companies just seem to like hiking the prices for certain markets, because we pay the prices.