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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
That's not an option since we have to pay a special tax on sales from Europe...
The exchange rate is a bit extreme at the moment, but that's not our fault of course. And we handle it the same way as other companies do, just look at the iTunes music store... I pay €0.99 per song, which is roughly $1.60.  |
.. that tax is what in Germany? In Sweden, the sales tax (moms) is 25%. With the current exchangerates, the non-taxed price would be about €16.. €16*1.25 = €20.
The only result you're getting now is Europeans using US-based friends (or a proxy) to order the game.
I'm almost positive I remember Marc Duffy realizing the problem last year after a 2006-debacle, lowering the euro-price from €1 = $1 to a more reasonable level.
Yup.. I found this old post over at FOFC from last year.
OOTP 2007 - Page 3 - Front Office Football Central
This is me commenting on SI's decision to at least reduce the internal exchangerate from €1 = $1 to €0.85 = $1. Now, a year later, the Euro is even stronger against the dollar, but the price is back up.