Author Topic: Brand name "Alembic" protected ? (Read 569 times)

mattheus · « **Reply #15 on:** October 08, 2003, 12:38:10 AM »

Whenever you buy an instrument in a foreign country you should not pay for their taxes. Otherwise you pay taxes twice! Taxes paid in your 'home-country' are deductable. (Perhaps that is tiny bit more light in the tunnel...)

Mattheus

palembic · « **Reply #16 on:** October 08, 2003, 12:46:31 AM »

Yeah Mattheus, I forgot that.
If I'm well informed the Alembicians deduct the Californian salestax off their sales price going abroad (Well it's how Roscoe works I got that info from them which is not a Californian company but from North Carolina). Although when the guitar is imported in EU their is an IMPORT-tax and THAN the VAT on top of that.

adriaan · « **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2003, 07:41:07 AM »

The exchange rate for us in Holland was excellent in 1994: something like 1.50 Guilders to a US Dollar, instead of 2.00 Guilders like it used to be in the 1980s (like Clinton said to Bush Sr.: It's the economy, stupid).

Ignoring inflation, 1.50 Guilders translates to 0.68 Euros, while these days the exchange rate is something like 0.90 Euro to a US Dollar. So wait another ten years until the exchange rate drops again, lowering those self-import prices by 20%.

I won't predict if we'll have another Clinton in the White House by then, though.

senmen · « **Reply #18 on:** October 08, 2003, 07:58:26 AM »

But guys,
believe me, it still makes sense.....
1500 Euro saved on one bass is much money, or?

Oliver

valvil · « **Reply #19 on:** October 08, 2003, 11:03:41 AM »

Actually these days the Euro is as strong as ever. Today's exchange rate lists the Euro as being worth over 1.17$ US; or to look at it the other way 1$US = .84 Euro.

Valentino

palembic · « **Reply #20 on:** October 08, 2003, 03:37:00 PM »

Watch out California ...we're coming! Actually: you got a EU governor already!!!
Well you got out muscles already ...now our money LOL

Paul the bad one

harald_rost · « **Reply #21 on:** October 09, 2003, 11:39:12 PM »

I bought my used 1976 Sereis 1 from a bassplayer from USA. I never would get a used Series bass here in Germany for that price I paid. But it's a shame IMHO that one can buy an new Alembic cheaper from a dealer in USA, including all the shipping costs, taxes and custom fees, than from the German distributor. What the hell is the German distributor for? Their prices are out of real. Does anybody know if their prices are negotiable? Oliver: Did you try?

Harald