Price Discrimination on MacBook Pro
Price discrimination according to my memory of A-Level Economics can only happen in a monopoly market place. So to this end Apple has a monopoly on MacBook pros, fair enough it’s their product. I’ve been thinking of buying one of these excellent laptop, however one thing pisses me off to the nth degree.
If I buy a MacBook Pro 17″ from the Apple Store in the US it costs £1,505 ($2,799) and if I go to the Apple Store UK it costs a whooping £1,999 ($3,716). This is bloody ridiculous and as a result I won’t be buying a MacBook Pro. Firstly because my price point for a laptop of this specification is somewhere below the £2k mark and secondly I don’t like being taken for a mug.
May 16th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
The price difference is shocking indeed, now if only you knew a “Spazzie” person living NYC who is coming to visit later this year…too late, I get first dibbs!