Surely the theme of smartphone prices in Europe is giving much more than normal talk. After all, the depreciation of the euro has made many companies decide to raise the price of the mobile terminals they sell in our territory, and many of us wonder why we have to pay more for the same. This issue has a lot to do with the global economy and some consumers refuse to accept it, looking for alternatives that maintain current costs. But within Europe itself, due to fiscal conditions, taxes, or manufacturers' own strategies, there are large price differences between terminals. Today we analyze some of them.
The table you find on these lines shows you the smartphone prices in Europe that you have to pay for the most popular terminals in each of the countries analyzed. In the case of Spain, things are average. We do not have cheaper terminals than the rest of Europe and the best mid-range mobiles They are the best sellers, but we are not the country with the most expensive phones either. In green you can see the price of the country that sells the cheapest model, and in red, the one that sells it at the highest price.
It may be that a few euros more did not make a difference, although in times of crisis, everything counts. And the reality is that terminals such as the Galaxy Note 4 are sold for up to 129,60 euros difference between the country that sells it the most expensive, and the one that sells it the cheapest. With a bit of luck, we could find one of those bargain tickets for less than that price and go buy it. By the way, we would take the opportunity to get to know that European city that we have seen so many times in documentaries and reports. It is not a bad idea, but the differences are not so noticeable in the rest of the terminals.
Spain: in the average of Europe
If there is something that I do not quite understand about this statistic, it is precisely why Spain is in the average. At the end of the day, the highest prices in the United Kingdom for the currency, or the lowest in Italy, could be justified because the standard of living is not at the same level as in other countries. As for Germany, it is taxes that could lower the average, and the same reason could make Poland is on the rise. But what about Spain?
Actually, due to the salaries we have in our country, at least in terms of the purchasing power of Spaniards compared to other markets, the supply should have more balanced prices. This does not happen, and even though the statistics do not explain why, I think there are two key factors that keep it this way. On the one hand, Spain is no longer a main market for most brands, so no strategies are defined that could wipe out the other's customers. On the other hand, even despite low wages, the demand for this type of terminal is on the rise, and it is already known that the higher the demand, and the lower the supply, the more prices rise. It sounds like a real disaster and even illogical, but that's the way it is. Spanish market of the smartphone world compared to the rest of the countries of Europe.
And now comparative table with average salaries and you'll see how good ...
There are given Pablo, that's when the laughter comes in
Very good, a map of the cost of the mobile with respect to the average salary, so that we laugh at the theft that they do to us with the mobile phones, although seeing what has happened in Andalusia that has won a group of corrupt, thieves of other people's money , you can imagine in the country of retarded in which we live.
This type of comparison makes no sense if a correction factor is not introduced, such as the Minimum Interprofessional Salary, which for example in France is around 1400 euros, slightly more than double that here. So the price in France would be very cheap compared to ours, although they soon seem the same on the boat.
Or even price the SMI of each country…. so in Spain it would cost 0,50 SMI and in France 0,25 SMI, that is half that in Spain.
Well, as an example, at the time I bought a Galaxy S4 2 days after its release on the European market, I bought it in France, € 629 at phonehouse, when I returned to Spain I approached a phoneouse to compare the price, € 699 .
Explain to me how the same product can cost € 70 more in the same store, knowing that there is an abysmal difference between the Spanish and French minimum salary.
The difference in 2013 when I bought the s4 was this:
Spain [+] 2013 € 753
France [+] 2013 € 1.430
That is to say at € 20 close to the price of the s4
For what is this? And do not tell me the law of supply and demand, or speculation, because then I observed that many people got hold of the s4, to this day in Spain there is still a lot of s4 circulating, I understand that many were made with the root of a plan renew etc, surely more than half of the s4 sold at that time, this is pure speculation, because I do not know exactly, but what about the rest? Those who like me deny having a stay with operators? Because with the passage of time it is increasingly seen that people are rejecting the permanence, in fact that is why the operators now leave you the freedom to choose with or without permanence, when before that was unfeasible, if you wanted the latest Samsung model With an operator, they would leave it to you at a good price or even sometimes for € 0 depending on the data rate that you had contracted with them, or if you were willing to change it for a higher one for 18 or 24 months, what a scam, because that is At the time of delivery of the mobile they ask you for little money, or none then you leave the store happy with your new device for which you have paid very little money or nothing, but in the long run you realize that you paid for the mobile almost the double what it cost again, due to said permanence, but also the worst thing is that you are seeing how little by little your mobile is losing value in the market, and when you have already completed the 2 years of permanence you see how your mobile is not worth 350 € in the vast majority of c Asos, especially when they are Samsung phones that devalue very quickly, unlike Apple without wanting to enter into debates.