Thursday, January 17, 2008

Apple price gouging

Using current spot exchange rates of SGD 1.43 to USD 1, the MacBook Air 1.6 GHz at USD 1799 should be priced at SGD 2573. Yet it is going for SGD 2988 here, a USD 290 premium. That's 16% of the retail price! If that's not ridiculous enough, the 1.8 GHz model is USD 3098, but in Singapore it goes for SGD 5088 or USD 3558, a mind-blowing USD 460 difference!

Moral of the story: buy your Apple products elsewhere.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Friend, you have just invented the "Apple Price Index"?