Steam Deck now available for reservation in JP, KR, TW, HK

We pay tax on purchases too in the US, so yeah it might be $649 on the page, but on the purchase page for me it ended up just above $699 with tax, and I also had the reservation $5 discount so mine was technically like $704 or so?

Edit: My bad you're right it is indeed $649 mine was $700 with the tax, so your tax somehow is like 15% even though on google I see Koreas import tax at 10%. Not sure how they're doing it.

In the US we pay tax on everything, not sure if any states are exempt but it applies to most places even though each state has it's own going rate. I believe the EU has VAT auto calculated into the price hence why the prices are generally higher for stuff like games and they should balance out when someone adds up the us tax to their purchase but I could be wrong.