Interview:
Olympus France stated in an interview with Lepidi (translation here) that the black version sells more than the Silver. And most buyers are SLR owners and many of them are Journalists.
E-M5 in Europe:
For the third time Olympus launched an E-M5 rebate action while Europeans have to rely on local hard to find deals. For some mysterious reason the chepaest E-M5 you can find in Euro currency is in France (864 for body at Amazon), and in Italy (on eBay via Slidoo). And after a very long time plenty of refurbished E-M5 cameras are sold at [shoplink 22691 ebay]Olympusmarket on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. To get notified in future about the new European refurbished E-M5 auctions login at Slidoo and save this search.
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Did a recent search for a OM-D body only with the following results:
Amazon UK = €1207
Amazon DE = €1091
Amazon FR = €899
Amazon ES = €899
Amazon IT = €865
Whilst there are minor variations in tax/duty rates, this is nonsense
Import duty is the same across all EU.
VAT rates are highest in Spain and Italy (21%).
wish you were right:
vat in denmark is 25%
And Poland has 23%
VAT in Hungary is 27%, the truly highest in the EU 🙁 Cheapest E-M5 kit with 12-50 is around 1400 EUR here.
A change in VAT from Spain’s 21% to Hungary’s 27% would increase the price of a 900 euro camera by 45 euros.
I was saying out of the 5 countries listed.
Please also mention that silver version was very hard to find in France and is usually more expensive than the black one…
1099€ vs 854.91€ at Amazon…
At least you can get the silver lenses for less than the black ones. 😛
Yeah right, and that has nothing to do with the fact that the silver one is available in very very short supply, has been available in most countries 3 months later than the black one (unless you preordered it and your preorder was honored, I had mine preordered in silver, cancelled by the supplier because Olympus wouldn’t send them silver E-M5 and had no timeframe for their deliveries, subsequently purchased a black one, happened to most french early E-M5 adopters I know) or that there is a price difference between €100 and €300 depending on the supplier and timeframe.
But all the good lenses are only in silver or in some cases you need to pay extra for black. Olympus manipulates all this to squeeze extra money from everyone. They know most owners want black and most owners have black bodies.
This is of course a disgusting business practice, but those lenses keep on selling. So why not?
Its American marketing. Grab what can be grabbed. Once upon a time the price of an article was based on what it cost to produce, distribute and sell. That has gone the way of most realistic things and the big grab is the way to go.
Olympus are more than welcome to play their silver & black colour games. I wont play and I wont pay 🙂
Schneider Kreuznach are coming out with black lens’ in some of the FL’s I want, and their lenses are black. Guess who will be getting my cash 🙂
This is what happens to companies that fuck over their customers all the time: http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=0&chds=0&chdv=0&chvs=Linear&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1358131560381&chddm=995770&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=TYO:6758&ntsp=0&ei=-HDzUJC1MoOckAWR1AE