Pricing between Europe and the US isn't simply a case of what the market will bear nor is it a case of higher support costs, it has far more to do with things like VAT and the different artist unions that have to make sure they get a piece of the pie.
Evoking the old "what the market will bear" argument is a bunch of rubbish, Europeans until very recently had no where near the disposable income that Americans have had access to (and in many cases still do not), and for most of the post war years have exhibited far greater unemployment numbers than the US, which leads one to conclude that prices should be lower in Europe than they have been in the US.
Something else is artificially driving up European prices although prices recently have come way way down compared to what they were just 10-15 years ago (relatively speaking), they are all thing considered still higher in Europe.
In a gross over simplification of what actually exists the US economy is driven by debt driven economics, and in Europe the economy is driven by Socio-economics.
-Gooney
Evoking the old "what the market will bear" argument is a bunch of rubbish, Europeans until very recently had no where near the disposable income that Americans have had access to (and in many cases still do not), and for most of the post war years have exhibited far greater unemployment numbers than the US, which leads one to conclude that prices should be lower in Europe than they have been in the US.
Something else is artificially driving up European prices although prices recently have come way way down compared to what they were just 10-15 years ago (relatively speaking), they are all thing considered still higher in Europe.
In a gross over simplification of what actually exists the US economy is driven by debt driven economics, and in Europe the economy is driven by Socio-economics.
-Gooney