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Edit: You don't have any taxes in Germany? I didn't know that. Wow. /s

Since VAT is the same across the country, consumer prices are shown with tax included. Having to remember to add a “sales tax” on top of the advertised price is more of a US thing.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/value-added-tax

VAT is always included in the advertised price.¹ If the price label says 20€, the customer pays 20€ including VAT.

[Panix]

Since VAT is the same across the country, consumer prices are shown with tax included. Having to remember to add a “sales tax” on top of the advertised price is more of a US thing.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/value-added-tax

Oh okay - well, that was in reference to Mr. Q 'bragging' (?) to how cheap the 7900 XTX was in his country (Germany) - but, when you check pcpartpicker - the prices look high there, too. Doing conversion - the cheapest card looks like 950 Euros (and it wasn't at that price for long). The avg looks to be around 1000 Euros - which comes out similar to prices in Canada for the average - around $1452 CAD - the cheapest 7900 XTX is currently $1249 (and yes, these are before tax) - so the price is always way higher than the price you're looking at.
So, $1470 before tax and other cards are over $1500. It seems like a similar situation in Germany.

I was arguing that these AMD gpus (lacking productivity features) are overly expensive for what they are and AMD didn't reduce prices to increase sales - which caused a lot of consumers including those who actually bought one of these higher tier AMD cards to chastise AMD for it.