Is there anything cheaper in the UK?
Discussion
Having paid 95p for only one litre for fuel yesterday it started me thinking again about how much we really do get ripped off in the UK. I know the title rip off Britain is hardly new but it seems to be getting worse on a daily basis.
Mrs Ribol has just returned from Rio and amongst the things she lugged back were Bacardi 1Lt bottles (I won’t say how many so as not to get her locked up). Tescos sell them for about £16, in France they are about £11 – in Rio they are £2.80 in a normal shop.
So, that is my nomination, where have you travelled to and bought something dirt cheap?
Carrying on from the above, forgetting people rolling in it because they live well anywhere – does an average family in the UK actually end up with anything more than people living in poorer countries at the end of the month?
Mrs Ribol has just returned from Rio and amongst the things she lugged back were Bacardi 1Lt bottles (I won’t say how many so as not to get her locked up). Tescos sell them for about £16, in France they are about £11 – in Rio they are £2.80 in a normal shop.
So, that is my nomination, where have you travelled to and bought something dirt cheap?
Carrying on from the above, forgetting people rolling in it because they live well anywhere – does an average family in the UK actually end up with anything more than people living in poorer countries at the end of the month?
Supermarket own-label food is staggeringly cheap compared to other countries. You can buy a minced beef and onion pie in Tesco for 30p and two sausage rolls for 31p. You can even get three whopping big cornish pasties in Netto for 89p, damn fools.
Where other countries such as the US have super-cheap food in restaurants & cafes, we beat them for cheap own-label food in multiples.
Where other countries such as the US have super-cheap food in restaurants & cafes, we beat them for cheap own-label food in multiples.
Ribol said:
.
Mrs Ribol has just returned from Rio and amongst the things she lugged back were Bacardi 1Lt bottles (I won’t say how many so as not to get her locked up). Tescos sell them for about £16, in France they are about £11 – in Rio they are £2.80 in a normal shop.
How much????
Do you have any spare?
I'll buy some for a fiver if you do
Some years ago I purchased a genuine Tag Heuer watch that I had wanted for a while - from a jewellers in St Marks Square, Venice. Price there was £224, in UK it was £550. I very nearly bought 2 and I expect had I found the same watch on mainland Italy, I could probably have got it cheaper.
TUS 373 said:
Some years ago I purchased a genuine Tag Heuer watch that I had wanted for a while - from a jewellers in St Marks Square, Venice. Price there was £224, in UK it was £550. I very nearly bought 2 and I expect had I found the same watch on mainland Italy, I could probably have got it cheaper.
My bro-in-law bought a genuine Tag in Miami airport. He paid $800 for a watch that is priced at £1600 in pretty much any jeweller in the UK.
beanbag said:
Some years ago I purchased a genuine Tag Heuer watch that I had wanted for a while - from a jewellers in St Marks Square, Venice. Price there was £224, in UK it was £550. I very nearly bought 2 and I expect had I found the same watch on mainland Italy, I could probably have got it cheaper.
My bro-in-law bought a genuine Tag in Miami airport. He paid $800 for a watch that is priced at £1600 in pretty much any jeweller in the UK.
it applies to pretty much anything I guess. my meisterstuck was 280euro in lisboa and £400 in "the pen store" in eldon garden in newcastle where previously I was tempted to buy one.
Of course the only really easy way to make comparisons (as my Irish in-laws visiting France & Italy do) is to have the Euro!!! 
But of course we must follow great British traditions, of joining late (having told everyone for years it would never work), with bad grace and at an exchange rate and time to ensure maximum economic disadvantage
But of course we must follow great British traditions, of joining late (having told everyone for years it would never work), with bad grace and at an exchange rate and time to ensure maximum economic disadvantage
CiderwithCerbie said:
Of course the only really easy way to make comparisons (as my Irish in-laws visiting France & Italy do) is to have the Euro!!!
But of course we must follow great British traditions, of joining late (having told everyone for years it would never work), with bad grace and at an exchange rate and time to ensure maximum economic disadvantage
The most disastrous thing we could do for the British economy is join the Euro.
The Euro area is offering an object lesson in optimum currency area theory.
Germany: Gasthaus near Austrian border.
Two people, each with own room for one night.
Rooms with ensuite shower / toilet etc.
Room size you could have slept 4 in either room all in single beds, all the facilities, desk/chairs, settee, TV, phone. Standard of presentation first class.
Brekkie, usual cold meat, cereals, yoghurts, bread, sundry baked goods, tea/coffee, all you could scoff basically.
Euro 39.20 for the two of us. ie £28 or £14 pppn !
What price a doss house in Blackpoo?
Two people, each with own room for one night.
Rooms with ensuite shower / toilet etc.
Room size you could have slept 4 in either room all in single beds, all the facilities, desk/chairs, settee, TV, phone. Standard of presentation first class.
Brekkie, usual cold meat, cereals, yoghurts, bread, sundry baked goods, tea/coffee, all you could scoff basically.
Euro 39.20 for the two of us. ie £28 or £14 pppn !
What price a doss house in Blackpoo?
JagLover said:
Of course the only really easy way to make comparisons (as my Irish in-laws visiting France & Italy do) is to have the Euro!!!
But of course we must follow great British traditions, of joining late (having told everyone for years it would never work), with bad grace and at an exchange rate and time to ensure maximum economic disadvantage
The most disastrous thing we could do for the British economy is join the Euro.
- Balderdash spread about by Murdoch
The Euro area is offering an object lesson in optimum currency area theory.
- No just a lesson in the need for structural economic reform ('optimum currency area theory, errr... the US and most of Latin America by proxy???)
Had a feeling that post might flush you out.
British view of the Euro (as dictated by a grouchy old Aussie with a US passport;
1. It's a bad idea
2. It will never work
3. They will never lock the exchange rates
4. They will never get the notes and coins produced in time
5. it will be chaos when they change the physical currencies
6. It's worth too little
7. It's worth too much
8. We're not f****** having it!
1. - 7. all demonstrably and now historically wrong
8. correct because...that's what The Sun Says!
Continuing confusion of the poor performance of the Eurozone (based on a lack of economic reform in France and Italy in particular plus German re-unification) with the great idea of a single currency is the single lamest excuse the anti-Euro lobby have.
Admit it is just about xenophobic flag waving and trying to deny our economic dependence on Europe (and the wider world). Interestingly it is two old Imperial powers that are having the greatest problem adjusting to the new realities- UK & Sweden.
parrot of doom said:
Another lie told by the pro-Euro brigade is that if we don't join, we'll face economic disaster.
Correct - not economic disaster just slow economic irrelevance
What a load of cock. People in Europe will still trade with us whether we pay in Euros or not.
Correct - we will just be paying more and some to the banks for turning the pounds into Euros.
The inward investment problem will kick in over the next five years. When I was in Oz in '98 'The Autralian' (not a noted left wing rag!) was saying Ozzies would have to look elsewhere than in the UK to invest in Europe if we didn't join the Euro eg Italy, Greece. Look at the money pouring into Ireland and wonder how much of that would have come to these shores if we didn't have our heads jammed up our solid sterling jacksies!
parrot of doom said:
Another lie told by the pro-Euro brigade is that if we don't join, we'll face economic disaster.
What a load of cock. People in Europe will still trade with us whether we pay in Euros or not.
Try telling that to the guys who are now on the dole who used to work at Rover.
Not being part of the Euro was a factor in the collaspe of Rover
Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff