Comparing US and SA game prices

[TheAvenged87]

I must say that I am much more relaxed nowadays with game prices. I paid R100 more for Mass Effect 2 than I paid for Mass Effect 3.

[reactor_sa]

I very much doubt Aus' buying power is 8x of SA, in fact you always hear complaints from people in Aus and NZ about how stupidly expensive their games are.

Everybody everywhere complains, doesn't make it true. Do you even personally know anyone in aus or nz? Because I was in aus in January and I have family there - and I didn't hear any complaints about game prices (atleast not on consoles, but its possible pc games are the same price as console games. I didn't check pc games).

[Necuno]

You guys also have to take into consideration the shipping and importing costs of SA's borders, that is why they are a touch more expensive. I can tell you now that if you import a game from EB then you will pretty much pay a little less than the retailers because they also have to put their markups on the games etc... So there are various points you have to look at when it comes to talking about game prices being compared, especially when they are being imported...

Of course all games are instantly teleported to RSA. Then there is also other taxations, but invisible man is invisible man

[MOnk]

Do you even personally know anyone in aus or nz?

I do, but that's irrelevant since you don't need to know people from Aus to work out their actual buying power compared to SA.

According to this when you factor in purchasing power the average person is earning about 3x more in Aus than SA.

[Ryusuki]

guys the reason why other country stuff is much cheaper than south africa because of import and export but mainly it the taxes in this country is rubbish.

my parent do import and export the amount of money they actually charging is over 30% but usually dont notice because they pay the taxes separate.

for example if you buy latest mobile oversea usually they charge on $300-$600 US dollar but south africa charge like $700-$1500