Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

• vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I got lucky and only paid a bit more than RRP, but you pretty much had to sit around a wait for a deal.

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• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “a few hundred more” for a device that only costs a few hundred to begin with seems a rather hefty premium to pay, and calling that “lucky”.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I paid A$1,189.00 for the 1TB OLED one, Valve will be selling it for A$ 1,049.00. To me, that wasn’t a huge difference, especially considering there was no indication Valve was ever going to sell it here.

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those sellers should be ashamed to charge few $100 more and taking advantage of this situation.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, those sellers should just eat the import tax and sell it at a loss, just so people in Australia can get it for the same price

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    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.

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      • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No one forces you to buy from them, they are providing a service of convenience. If you think their prices are a “scam” you can take the time, effort and money to import one yourself

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A hundred more on a thousand dollar device sounds exactly like the 10% duty we pay on things we import

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