{"id":91108,"date":"1999-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/kef-price-goughing-update\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:00:00","slug":"kef-price-goughing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/kef-price-goughing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"KEF Price Goughing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we published a story re KEF price gouging, one of the products out of over 30 we checked was not as overpriced as we stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">In Australia, the KEF LS 50 Wireless speaker is retailing for $3,799. In Canada where the VAT Tax is only 5% the same product is retailing for $2,999 or A$3,022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">Add 5% VAT tax to the already existing 5% VAT tax and the difference is still over $600 for a sub $4,000 pair of wireless speakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">The KEF LS 50 wireless speakers still must be connected via an Ethernet cable to deliver a Stereo pair whereas the Bluesound High Res speakers the Heos or Sonos speakers can be easily paired via a simple software app downloaded to a tablet or Smartphone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">\n<table style=\"\" align=\"Center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"700\" height=\"480\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/news.smarthouse.com.au\/resources\/articleimages\/2jlk444y_embeded_image_1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">\n<table style=\"\" align=\"Center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"700\" height=\"480\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/news.smarthouse.com.au\/resources\/articleimages\/2jlk444y_embeded_image_2.jpg', 'foo', 'width=365 height=239, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes');\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/news.smarthouse.com.au\/resources\/articleimages\/2jlk444y_embeded_image_2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Click to enlarge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px rgb(229, 229, 229); outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-family: FrutigerLT-Roman;\">KEF distributor Advance Audio pointed out the difference. They made no reference to several other KEF products that we exposed as being in cases, thousands of dollars more expensive in australia than overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we published a story re KEF price gouging, one of the products out of over 30 we checked was not as overpriced as we stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":91151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-business","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KEF Price Goughing Update - Smart Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/kef-price-goughing-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KEF Price Goughing Update - 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