Oculus why are you inflating prices for Australians ? Damaged Core is the latest example where it is sold for USD $29.99 to people enabled to pay in US $ and which equals approx AUD $39 - However on the Oculus Store here in Aussie it is $47. 😞
It is so disappointing that you charge extra for absolutely no good reason. It is not like Oculus has to pay extra costs for shipping etc. Similar to Apple, Microsoft, Google et al. your company has structured it's Corporate Tax to reside in Ireland, in order to pay the absolute minimum of tax at 0.005% - this was widely reported today in Australia after the latest EU ruling handed down yesterday. The least you could do is consider treating your O.S. customers better by not cheating them of those few extra $'s which make a difference to some of us.
Please Oculus, review your pricing policy and sell at the fair and correct price, you will get more sales that way. 😕
Oculus why are you inflating prices for Australians ? Damaged Core is the latest example where it is sold for USD $29.99 to people enabled to pay in US $ and which equals approx AUD $39 - However on the Oculus Store here in Aussie it is $47. 😞
Have you subtracted gst? That makes it $43 aud. Are there any other applicable taxes? I thought you had some tax on online media.
I think the price in US $ is inclusive of sales tax and Aussie gst is only 10% in any case so it should be lower or balance out. Take a look at other games on the Steam store, they do not add any extra cost and where the same game exists on both stores the Steam price is actually lower.
The Oculus Home price in Great Britain is £22.99 which equates to Aussie $40, to me that adds further to the fact that they are only over inflating the price on the Aussie store. It is not like the product is a physical disk or has any added cost to upload for Australian users. We should have same prices converted from U.S. $ as the Brits.
Oculus why are you inflating prices for Australians ? Damaged Core is the latest example where it is sold for USD $29.99 to people enabled to pay in US $ and which equals approx AUD $39 - However on the Oculus Store here in Aussie it is $47. 😞
Have you subtracted gst? That makes it $43 aud. Are there any other applicable taxes? I thought you had some tax on online media.
There are no other taxes and no such thing as an online media tax. Prices on Steam work out at US $ price plus few dollars that paypal applies. But here we are using Credit card for Oculus Home so there are no extra fees Oculus should be applying. This is one area where Oculus seems to lack accountability as similar questions have been posed before and never answered fully. I guess as a small populous of VR gamers in aussie we just do not count for much.
Are you saying it is $29.99 Kiwi dollars or US dollars ?
Because if US $ then that equals $41.39 New Zealand Dollar which equals $ 39.92 Australian Dollars, so yeah you guys also are getting VR games cheaper than us.
Does Oculus Home in New Zealand display in NZ currency or US ?
There are plenty of other regional pricing issues.
Denmark gets games priced in US dollars, even though the headset is paid in Euros. The US dollar price of games is higher than the Euro price, which also means the usual price parity between Oculus Store and Steam is broken - Steam's cheaper because it charges in Euros.
Yeah I am sure Australian prices are not the only ones affected like this. I think if someone from Oculus was willing to take a close look at this they would be able to bring some parity to the pricing and make it fair for all of us and at least bring the pricing in line with Steam, being they are the only other competitor for VR games.
Are you saying it is $29.99 Kiwi dollars or US dollars ?
Because if US $ then that equals $41.39 New Zealand Dollar which equals $ 39.92 Australian Dollars, so yeah you guys also are getting VR games cheaper than us.
Does Oculus Home in New Zealand display in NZ currency or US ?
I did say "presumably USD." 🙂 It doesn't specify currency anywhere that I can see, or am I missing it somewhere?
