Buddy...
Agree with Venkat...
There are three major issues...
1). Government Rules
2). Customs Duty - In India any consumer electronics product, levies a duty of 40% inclusive all, on top of that lies the freight from these countries to India. One would be surprised but when a product is being exported from US or UK, the charges are much lower comparable to what charges are being levied while importing. After all these lies our VAT @ 12.5%.
3). Margins : On all new products the margins on products from US are seriously very low. For some reasons i cannot open the percentage, but its very low. Its that low, that if the person brings the products to India, the Customs Duty, Freight & VAT makes the price atleast 20% higher than the US MRP, then they need to add there margins, service, transport, etc... and the price ends up almost double the price...
Yes but in case of UK products the price level doesnt go beyond 1.6 times of the UK MRP...
So, all these playsa huge role in delaying the imports of a newly launched products...
And on top of that comes the quantity...thts too poor...