My little brother is finally here, so between playing a parent and celebrating Canada Day (I celebrate anything that gives me a good reason to part) I’ve been a bit busy. I was very keen on writing a post yesterday, but guess what? My Rogers Wireless was down and they couldn’t even fix it, because their own systems were down. This can be pretty disastrous if you work from home and using internet for pretty much everything you do.

Instead of describing my phone calls with Rogers (which were lessons on how not do customer service) I just want to put my two cents in for this whole Iphone in Canada story. As many of you know Rogers reveiled their Iphone pricing couple of days ago and a consumer backlash was phenomenal. I wanted say that I am proud for Canadian consumers who created a website ruinediphone.com and right now already more than 30,000 people signed the petition. Btw I encourage everyone who didn’t do it to sign it right now.

While I don’t think the petition will change anything since Rogers/Fido is an only GSM carrier in Canada and only they have exclusive rights to sell Iphone (which is a total anti-capitalistic approach). They are just milking this thing for whatever they can. I am still proud of Canadia consumers who are so aware that they are being ripped of. When I moved to Canada two years ago from Chicago - I found the prices for cellur service shocking. I was so ticked with the fact that despite the high prices everyone was used to these plans.

It is not a secret that Canadian don’t like to be compared to Americans (we have free medical insurance over here), but I still think that comparing value packages especially now when Canadian dollar is in par with American way is essential in getting what we rightfully deserve. We already pay more taxes when get our salaries and buy goods, why the price is so much more? I still can’t wrap my hear around it.

-why cars made in Canada and exported to USA are cheaper to buy in US bring back here than just buy a car in Canada?
-why books still cost 30% more in Canadian dollars?
-why electronics that are brought from Asia and distributed through Best Buy cost 20%-30% more over here


Just needed to unwind that is what blogs are for.

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