Pricing Difference per Country
A bit of a wordy question. Apologies
I am a new user of the iTunes store. As I live in Japan, the Japanese store is obviously the only store I can use which is fine because I have found pretty much everything I want.
Now my question is, why is there such a disparity in the pricing between countries?? This is just not between the US and Japanese stores but all of them. A $0.99 song, standard US price, which on the Japanese store is ¥150 JPY, standard Japanese price, using the interbank rate +10% still only works out to ¥132 JPY. Even if you take into account wild fluctuation of the ForEx market, I think the difference to to big. Take the same ¥150 song, looking on the UK store would cost £0.79, standard UK price, would again using +10% interbank rate would just come to £0.68 so again I ask why??
Just to say, I still bought my songs at ¥150 because I have no alternative but to use the Japanese store for this is where I live.
commodore 64 Windows XP Pro
I am a new user of the iTunes store. As I live in Japan, the Japanese store is obviously the only store I can use which is fine because I have found pretty much everything I want.
Now my question is, why is there such a disparity in the pricing between countries?? This is just not between the US and Japanese stores but all of them. A $0.99 song, standard US price, which on the Japanese store is ¥150 JPY, standard Japanese price, using the interbank rate +10% still only works out to ¥132 JPY. Even if you take into account wild fluctuation of the ForEx market, I think the difference to to big. Take the same ¥150 song, looking on the UK store would cost £0.79, standard UK price, would again using +10% interbank rate would just come to £0.68 so again I ask why??
Just to say, I still bought my songs at ¥150 because I have no alternative but to use the Japanese store for this is where I live.
commodore 64 Windows XP Pro
