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Chris Jones
- Jan 1, 1970
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John said:Many American companies, notably Microsoft, impose a European price
penalty, usually in the 20-100% range. My company doesn't. Maybe we
should reconsider...
John
It would be quite reasonable to impose a per-country charge based on the
incremental cost of making products for that country, i.e. buying copies of
non-free mandatory national standards, complying with these regulations,
extra product testing services / approvals / bribes legally required to
sell in a given market. It doesn't make sense for the customers who
elected sensible governments to be paying more than their fair share to
satisfy bizarre requests from the less-wisely-elected governments. You
might want to offer a 10-year warranty (from date of purchase) on the PbSn
version and a 6 month warranty (from date of manufacture, not purchase) on
the RoHS version, until proven that this does not reflect the inherent
reliability.
Chris