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07-30-05, 01:34
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RobDon is offline
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 329 | Price comparison?
Makes for sad reading for us Brits, but I did some comparing of UK prices Vs USA prices, no wonder we import stuff from Autopia (never mind that we can't get many things either!) Meguiars NXT shampoo - £12.99 - USA - $7.95 (£4.52) Meguiars NXT tech wax - £14.99 - USA - $14.95 (£8.50)
Meguiars NXT glass cleaner - £7.99 - USA - $5.95 (£3.38)
Meguiars Supreme Shine MF 3-pack - £14.99 - USA - $9.95 (£5.66) Klasse AIO - £19.99 - USA - $20.00 (£11.37) Wolfgang Deep Gloss sealant - £14.95 - USA - $19.95 (£11.34)
Mothers FX SynWax - £16.99 - USA - $12.95 (£7.36)
And the list goes on and on ... !
If you convert some of our prices into $ - can you imagine the USA paying $22.83 for NXT shampoo, $29.86 for FX SynWax or $35.14 for Klasse AIO!!! Most of our prices are roughly DOUBLE what our overseas cousins pay - ripoff Britain is alive and well!!!  | |
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07-30-05, 11:12
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Richt is offline
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Tewkesbury, Glos, UK Posts: 2,514 | Worked out a few along time ago when I first found this place, dont it WILL upset you. We really do get bent over in a big way!
Megiuars UK told me went I had a rant at them it was all down to the costs involved to import them. | |
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07-30-05, 11:21
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RobDon is offline
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 329 | Yeah, so you're just as well to import the stuff yourself, even with the shipping charges it still works out cheaper! | |
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07-31-05, 02:22
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Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Riverside, CA Posts: 123 | yeah, but how much do YOU pay for a Land Rover or a Mercedes... and how much do WE pay?
USA makes better waxes, Europeans maker better cars! | |
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07-31-05, 02:29
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 49 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DJ Trackie yeah, but how much do YOU pay for a Land Rover or a Mercedes... and how much do WE pay?
USA makes better waxes, Europeans maker better cars! |
I think that if you look at the Land Rover UK website you will see that their vehicles are more expensive in the UK than they are in the US, and I assume the same is true for Mercedes. | |
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07-31-05, 11:28
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RobDon is offline
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 329 | Cars in the UK are VASTLY more expensive here, so is petrol - we pay £20,000 for a new Golf GTi - that's $35,331, other cars like the Dodge SRT-4 are $20,000 which is only around £11,332 - no way on earth would we get them for that, but we don't even get them over here.
Petrol - we pay 93p a litre for Optimax, £4.22 a gallon which is $7.45 in your money, how much do you pay a gallon? Fancy paying $88 to fill up your VW? | |
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08-01-05, 04:53
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 49 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RobDon Petrol - we pay 93p a litre for Optimax, £4.22 a gallon which is $7.45 in your money, how much do you pay a gallon? Fancy paying $88 to fill up your VW? | I guess paying $2.20 a gallon doesn't sound so bad compared to your prices. | |
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08-01-05, 04:56
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RobDon is offline
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: UK Posts: 329 | Exactly - we pay over 3-times as much as you guys!!! | |
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08-01-05, 06:57
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Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: OH Posts: 1,125 | I'm pretty much an idiot when it comes to over seas marketing, so can someone tell me what the "average joe" makes an hour over the pond there. In the USA, the average person makes about $5.XX something and hour. It seems to me the price difference has to work out somewhere. I mean, paying $7.50 for a gallon of gas would require the average person in the US a full days labor to fill-up their gas tank. That seems ridiculous to me, but I definitely could be wrong!! SO, do you all make more an hour on average than we do?
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08-01-05, 09:52
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Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 818 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by J.J. In the USA, the average person makes about $5.XX something and hour.
SO, do you all make more an hour on average than we do?
JJ | If the average person in the USA makes $5.xx per hour, that's about £3.50... which is below the legal minimum wage over here. So I guess you're right - we do make more per hour on average. I'm not really sure what the offical average wage is over here... I'll do some searching around and find out.
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08-01-05, 10:00
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Lowejackson is offline
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: UK Posts: 3,871 | I think the national average salary for a full time employee is around £17,000 per annum | |
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08-01-05, 10:40
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AndyC_1 is offline
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 541 | All I'll say is that I'm slightly above the UK average for the insurance industry which is £32 and a bit thousand per annum.
I think we have higher taxation but remember we do have a funded health service (please restrain your laughter....) whereas the USA doesn't. Mind you, that's the only major difference I know of so it kinda makes the huge prices we pay for goods seem a touch steep.
Makes the reasonably strong pound an even more compelling reason to buy products from USA sites such as here I guess?
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