Korg products are probably produced in a few select locations and distributed worldwide. Just because you, in Croatia, have less expendable cash, that doesn't mean that it will cost Korg less to make the keyboard. The distributor could take a reduced profit by marking the prices down for Croatia, but they should still pay the same rate (exchange rates and taxes such aside) to buy the keyboard from Korg Japan since the manufacturing costs are fixed no matter where the keyboard is shipped.shrike wrote:2. What I can't live with is this - Korg decided to charge for their products equally worldwide. Which means if some Korg product costs 1000 euros in Germany, it will cost 1000 euros in Croatia too. Korg obviously doesn't take into consideration the fact the German standard paycheck is about 1500 - 2000 euros per month, while Croatian is 500 - 1000 euros per month. More so, taxes aren't the same worldwide.
While it's bad for you as an individual, it's the reality of living in the world: prices are different in different places for different reasons. Some places are more expensive to live in than others, and some places have a higher average income than others (and not necessarily both higher cost of living and higher average income either!)
My wife traveled across Canada for school last May and was surprised that a 750 gram block of cheese that would cost, at most, $7 CAD in Toronto would cost $13 CAD in Edmonton, despite Edmonton being in Alberta, which is one of the best locations in Canada for agriculture, and also having less sales tax (Alberta has no provincial sales tax, just a nation-wide tax by the Canadian government that all Canadians pay). Oh, and those are before-tax prices, of course. The same is true across the board; Edmonton is considerably more expensive than Toronto. It's called cost of living, and it sucks when it's not in your favour, but it's reality.