Finally, as of today (10th May 2010) the prices have been announced for the iPad internationally for 9 countries, Australia, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Japan.
There have been both negative and positive comments regarding the prices and to try and come to terms with the seemingly vast differences from country to country I decided to work out what the real costs are.
All but Canada include their local Sales Tax or VAT in the price. Since the US price does not include Sales Tax I decided to calculate the differences based on the other countries prices per-tax.
I then converted this price into US dollars to come up with the difference we are actually paying over and above the US price.
Surprisingly (actually shouldn't be surprising at all) when all of the Euro countries remove the VAT the prices are very similar give or take a Euro here and there. It also turns out that the model with the least amount of difference is the 16GB 3G model, with a difference of under US$10 in some cases.
Here are the price differences per country in US$ over and above the pre-Tax price in the US. (Exchange rates calculated as of 10am, May 10th 2010):
Australia
iPad Wifi 16GB - $ 8.56
iPad Wifi 32GB - $13.46
iPad Wifi 64GB - $24.82
iPad 3G 16GB - $15.74
iPad 3G 32GB - $19.83
iPad 3G 64GB - $17.47
Canada
iPad Wifi 16GB - $27.47
iPad Wifi 32GB - $23.36
iPad Wifi 64GB - $19.26
iPad 3G 16GB - $22.13
iPad 3G 32GB - $18.03
iPad 3G 64GB - $13.92
UK
iPad Wifi 16GB - $41.36
iPad Wifi 32GB - $29.53
iPad Wifi 64GB - $55.49
iPad 3G 16GB - $37.31
iPad 3G 32GB - $25.49
iPad 3G 64GB - $51.44
France
iPad Wifi 16GB - $35.05
iPad Wifi 32GB - $42.07
iPad Wifi 64GB - $49.09
iPad 3G 16GB - $12.07
iPad 3G 32GB - $19.09
iPad 3G 64GB - $26.12
Germany
iPad Wifi 16GB - $37.74
iPad Wifi 32GB - $45.30
iPad Wifi 64GB - $69.00
iPad 3G 16GB - $15.30
iPad 3G 32GB - $22.87
iPad 3G 64GB - $46.56
Italy
iPad Wifi 16GB - $33.27
iPad Wifi 32GB - $39.93
iPad Wifi 64GB - $46.60
iPad 3G 16GB - $ 9.93
iPad 3G 32GB - $16.60
iPad 3G 64GB - $23.27
Switzerland
iPad Wifi 16GB - $45.47
iPad Wifi 32GB - $54.53
iPad Wifi 64GB - $55.20
iPad 3G 16GB - $41.31
iPad 3G 32GB - $50.37
iPad 3G 64GB - $51.04
Spain
iPad Wifi 16GB - $29.55
iPad Wifi 32GB - $39.90
iPad Wifi 64GB - $50.24
iPad 3G 16GB - $ 9.90
iPad 3G 32GB - $20.24
iPad 3G 64GB - $30.59
Japan
iPad Wifi 16GB - $ 8.35
iPad Wifi 32GB - $12.32
iPad Wifi 64GB - $16.28
iPad 3G 16GB - $13.51
iPad 3G 32GB - $17.47
iPad 3G 64GB - $21.44
These difference most likely allow for currency fluctuations and import duty per country.
I have published the spreadsheet I created for you all to take a look at:
iPad Price Differences by Country
We here they charge top dollar, iPad Wifi 64GB at $700+, OMG.
Posted by: Neo max | September 17, 2010 at 03:18 AM
Simon, the calculations I made are based on the US$ which does not include sales tax. The UK advertised price includes 17.5% VAT So the first thing you have to do is to get the pre-VAT price. If you look at my calculations the price comparison is between the US$ price without sales tax and the UK price before VAT.
Hope that clarifies it for you.
Posted by: Paul Shadwell | May 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Paul your conversions for UK vs US for the iPad prices are quite a bit out. On my calculations at the current exchange rate an iPad 64GB 3G converts to £553.15 inc 17.5% VAT where the uk price is £699.
This means that UK prices are £145.85 more than the US prices converted.
Posted by: Simon Bainbridge | May 10, 2010 at 11:41 PM