UK feels bite of iTunes overpricing

GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that UK customers will
feel very bitter when they start comparing prices of songs on the UK's
Apple iTunes service and those on the French and German
counterparts.   At the moment the French and German Apple
iTunes services offer songs at around €0.99, at the current exchange rate
that equates to around 66p a song.  In the UK we
lucky consumers get to pay a handsome fee of 79p per track. 

 

Even with various tax rates
between the various countries taken into consideration it still equates to
UK consumers paying more for their
Apple iTunes tracks.  In Apples
defence it has been reported that getting music rights in the
UK is much more expensive compared to
anywhere else.  Even though we pay more for the iTunes music tracks it's
still much cheaper than the other various music download services
available.

UK consumers may feel hard done by when they compare the prices on the French and German versions of the iTunes Music Store with those in the UK. At current exchange rates the French and German iTMS song price of €0.99 equates to about 66p, not the 79p being charged in the UK. Subtracting the varying levels of VAT - 17.5 per cent in the UK, 19.6 per cent in France and 16 per cent in Germany - leaves the net per song prices as €1.01, €0.82 and €0.85 respectively.Having said that iTunes is still much cheaper than Napster"s £1.09 per track or OD2"s 99p average. Both Napster and OD2 have also said that music rights in the UK were more expensive than elsewhere

You can read the full
story over at PCPRO.  As
usual UK consumers get ripped off but hey I
think most music listeners and buyers of music already know that.

Source: PC PRO