ITunes songs 68% more expensive in Switzerland than US

A song downloaded from iStore costs $.99 in the US. In Switzerland it costs CHF 1.60, i.e. $1.67 -- a whopping 68% more.
Why?

Hi and welcome...
This article may explain...
http://www.macworld.com/article/131479/2008/01/eu.html
Carolyn

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Thanks for the reply - I still know that this issue is also relevant for so many other apple products which don't involve cellular providers.... I think Australians are tired of paying so much more for things than in the US and other countries. It used to be explained by the poor Australian dollar but that doesnt exactly work when we are over parity with the US dollar and have been for a while now....

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In Spain, the Iphone 5s cost around 700€, but in United States cost less 200$
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Check the US price for an unlocked iPhone. The price you are looking at is the carrier price IF you sign up to a two year contract.

Is it the time to go to Google? iTunes is much more expensive than Google Play!

I know that iTunes is amazing. But now that Google Play's started renting movies in my country (Brazil) I guess if iTunes worth it's high price for everything...
I have an Apple Tv, what is very good, however isn't complete as well, per exemple that doesn't have a way to change the subtitle size, what's a really simple feature. Otherwise its items are extremelly expense here in my Country. While a movie is rented by Google for R$ 6.99 (~U$3.49) the same movie is rented by iTunes for U$4.99, so I guess: WHY???
Do you guys have the same felling than I have that Apple has charged so much more money that it would? Anyone here is thinking about migrate to Google Play/Android plataform?
Why do you guys think about all of that?

If you find a better price elsewhere, by all means patronize that other company if you wish. We have no control over pricing here, we just being fellow users, and these forums are for technical support questions, not pricing debates or comments, so further discussion on the matter really isn't appropriate here.
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With the Canadian dollar near parity, why is the cost of the new iPhone5 so much more in Canada???

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that is the way:
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen says he will try to leverage the 'emotional' attachment of Canadians to the company to lure back customers. BlackBerry launched its new Passport device Wednesday.

patapoof wrote:
But sometimes ca price is lower... ex. I just ordered some accessories on ca cb site much less than us site even with usurious ca postage...
OP was talking about the Passport and not accessories.
Accessories can go on sale in differnet places and not every where has a price match policy
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Economies of scale most likely.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Economies_of_scale
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Or, when you are synching choose the songs you want on the IPod by checking them in the library, then tell it to only synch checked items.
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HT4528 when i first got my iphone thru verizon, i had 2 movies, and numerous songs that came from my cd's i owned already. or from music that i already had on my computer. however, i didn't think i would be chgd for putting them on itunes,i pd more doing

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sheila vest
[email protected]

Paragraphs were invented for a reason.
Flinging a giant wall of text up is not conducive to receiving help.
Posting email addresses is not smart.
User to user forum-Apple is nit here.

HT201359 My MasterCard bill for my iTunes song purchases are always moreo than what I bought. I only buy one song at a time or buy new levels for candy crush at .99 or 1.29 for songs, but there are times when my mc bill shows iTunes bought for 7.39 or 6.2

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ITunes songs 68% more expensive in Switzerland than US

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