[simpits-tech] You Suck

[Roy Coates]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Gene Buckle wrote:

> > A Sony LCD model ABC in the UK is 2000 UKP but is 2000 USD in the USofA.
> >
>
> I wonder if it's just a case of some drooling idiot in marketing going
> "Gee, it's a lot less work to just change the $ to that funny pound symbol
> than it is to figure out the correct price..."


I sometimes think so. I recently bought an OpenGL book which had a $60
price tag. That should equate to about 30 UKP but no, it was 60.


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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