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/rant
If the price of electronics in Brazil were just a direct conversion (take the price in USD and multiply with the current value -- 1 USD = 2.98 BRL at time of this post) I would certainly be veeeery happy and many things would be a lot more cheap than they currently are. However, in top of that we have a high amount of taxes, resulting in a "retail" price much higher. An i7-4790K is currently priced at 330 USD at NewEgg. I did a quick search in our retail stores and the cheapest I could find here is around 1850 BRL (which currently translates to around 620 USD -- nearly twice the price in NewEgg!). Another comparison could be done during PS4 release: the sum of travelling to somewhere in NA, buying the console there and paying all import taxes when coming back to Brazil still were cheaper than buying the PS4 in a retail store here (I don't remember now what was the dollar price at that time but the retail price here was 4000 BRL -- ouch!). PS4 is cheaper now, but still very expensive compared to current NA retail prices (around 2400 BRL ~ 805 USD)
BTW, I'm not saying Brazil exclusively have the most expensive currency or taxes (like ReyVGM already stated) but yeah, taxes here are very abusive too...
/rant
If the price of electronics in Brazil were just a direct conversion (take the price in USD and multiply with the current value -- 1 USD = 2.98 BRL at time of this post) I would certainly be veeeery happy and many things would be a lot more cheap than they currently are. However, in top of that we have a high amount of taxes, resulting in a "retail" price much higher. An i7-4790K is currently priced at 330 USD at NewEgg. I did a quick search in our retail stores and the cheapest I could find here is around 1850 BRL (which currently translates to around 620 USD -- nearly twice the price in NewEgg!). Another comparison could be done during PS4 release: the sum of travelling to somewhere in NA, buying the console there and paying all import taxes when coming back to Brazil still were cheaper than buying the PS4 in a retail store here (I don't remember now what was the dollar price at that time but the retail price here was 4000 BRL -- ouch!). PS4 is cheaper now, but still very expensive compared to current NA retail prices (around 2400 BRL ~ 805 USD)
BTW, I'm not saying Brazil exclusively have the most expensive currency or taxes (like ReyVGM already stated) but yeah, taxes here are very abusive too...
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