Monday, June 23, 2008

Old market should give way to online market

Finally, one might say! This is a thing I can relate to! Consider this – a Dell Vostro computer (which by the way runs perfectly with Ubuntu Linux) that is ment to help to help smaller companies get a good start (i.e. good price with older AMD processors) has a huge price difference depending in which region you are buying it. And you HAVE TO buy it in your own country. That’s the policy of Dell. But what difference I am talking about here? Well consider this – the computer is cheaper if you buy it in USA and send it over the ocean to Slovenia via DHL than buying it here. In fact you could almost buy two of those. Buy it in Germany you will pay 350-400 EUR for it. Buy it here you will pay over 1100 EUR. Note there are no customs and transport costs from Germany to would be no more than 50 EUR. But you can not buy it in Germany, you HAVE TO buy it here, where the price is higher. Why? Isn’t EU a single market now? Isn’t that the whole as well as the fundamental idea of European Union?! Single market should eventually also have same prices, or at least prices that wouldn’t vary too much - probably salaries as well. The national governments have too much power in certain things and there should be some consensus on all this. At least that way we could feel like Union. Right now the only people that feel the union are manufacturers who don’t’ have to pay customs anymore to sell goods in other countries.

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