Packard Bell launched the Easynote XS a few weeks ago and most people were pretty happy to see it announced for £349 pounds. It was a good price for most people. Not for PC World though who have just posted it up at a rather crazy £599. I guess they can do what they want with the pricing, especially if they have sole retail rights in the UK but should they really be hiding something in the order of 100% mark-up from the customers? I thought the average margin on notebooks was under 10% !! Lets hope they just made a mistake and got hold of the Euro price. Its expected in Germany at €599. Or does this mean is will also turn up at with the same mark-up to 1000 Euros?

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Packard Bell launched the Easynote XS a few weeks ago and most people were pretty happy to see it announced for £349 pounds. It was a good price for most people. Not for PC World though who have just posted it up at a rather crazy £599. I guess they can do what they want with the pricing, especially if they have sole retail rights in the UK but should they really be hiding something in the order of 100% mark-up from the customers? I thought the average margin on notebooks was under 10% !! Lets hope they just made a mistake and got hold of the Euro price. Its expected in Germany at €599. Or does this mean is will also turn up at with the same mark-up to 1000 Euros?

Tony from Cynical Chatter isn't happy either. Thanks for letting us know Tony.

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PCWorld and Easynote XS. The Price isn’t right.

Posted on 26 October 2007, Last updated on 07 November 2019 by

easynote03Remember the ultra mobile PC bargain of the year? Well here’s the cheekiest bit of pricing of the year. And it’s from the same company.

Packard Bell launched the Easynote XS a few weeks ago and most people were pretty happy to see it announced for £349 pounds. It was a good price for most people. Not for PC World though who have just posted it up at a rather crazy £599. I guess they can do what they want with the pricing, especially if they have sole retail rights in the UK but should they really be hiding something in the order of 100% mark-up from the customers? I thought the average margin on notebooks was under 10% !! Lets hope they just made a mistake and got hold of the Euro price. Its expected in Germany at €599. Or does this mean is will also turn up at with the same mark-up to 1000 Euros?

Tony from Cynical Chatter isn’t happy either. Thanks for letting us know Tony.

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