In South Africa, getting robbed is a common occurence

For those of you who have ever bought an Apple product in South Africa you’ll know that the pricing is exorbitant at best. The Core Group, Apple importers in South Africa are also the importers of Nintendo products. What this means is that the Wii console as well as the new Nintendo DS lite handheld console are also imported by Core.

The new DS is being released on the 15th of February at the highly disgustingly exorbitant price of 1850 rand. Fascinatingly the price in America for the exact same device is $129. This translates to a few bucks more than a thousand rand. This is the direct price after the rand got pummeled in exchange markets and dropped an entire rand to the dollar.

The numbers never lie and frankly this just shows you how Core is robbing the South African consumer. When they arrived in the country with the Wii at around two and a half grand I was shocked and appalled at how expensive it was priced. Frankly the reason crime is so high in South Africa is because it’s legalised here! Every time I buy a tech product I get robbed!

The whole reason the DS is the best selling console in the world is due to its cheap price and high level of fun. In addition to the high price of the console the games cost around four hundred rand which again is a travesty.

The Core Group are the most useless, incompetent, lazy and ineffective company in South Africa but yet seem to have a huge amount of money due to bringing in the most sought after products. It’s just typical that we get ripped off here.

Nintendo DS top tip: Go buy the games from Take2 which has better imported games at a cheaper rate.

Enjoy this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed.