Being Fleeced in this country

monkey24

A petition to start collecting peoples thoughts on being fleeced in Ireland for necessities such as food etc

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/makeyourvoiceheard/

AckwelFoley

If you dont like it here, move to Albania, i hear food prices are lower there.

TwoShedsJackson

Excellent an online petition. With their great track record of changing things in the real world, how can this fail!!

chopperbyrne

monkey24 wrote: »

A petition to start collecting peoples thoughts on being fleeced in Ireland for necessities such as food etc

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/makeyourvoiceheard/

Can you explain how we're being fleeced exactly?

SV

Lol yes.

and look at our minimum wage in comparison to other places then complain about the prices of anything.

We have it the same as anyone else..relative costs.. If everything cost less we'd be paid less.

Steve_o

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Excellent an online petition. With their great track record of changing things in the real world, how can this fail!!

lol... a fine record it is!!:D

OP: I refuse signing anything online anymore... too paranoid...

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>_>

Besides, we're cheaper than Finland....:rolleyes:

Is Uwe Boll still making films?

Dragan

Deleted User wrote: »

Is Uwe Boll still making films?

Yes. Unfortunately.

monkey24

hey,

If people don't agree then feel free to just ignore this post. I simply posted it as I do feel we are being taken advantage off in some respects. If you feel what we are charged for necessities such as food etc is equivalent to the U.K/NI based on our wage structure, then you are incorrect. Again, no point in getting to an argument over it but you may be interested to research some of the stats online, you will find them quite interesting. I don't think our min wage is double what NI is. Countless reports have questioned why there is such a difference finding no adequate reason for it. If you seen the recent prime time featuring the owner of Superquinns, he had no real answer to explain the price differences. Chains such as M&S are starting to remove the sterling equivalent for goods so the Irish consumer is not aware of the amount they are being overcharged. I think our Minster for Trade and Enterprise Mary Coughlans response speaks volume about the attitude towards the Irish consumer.

If you do not agree with these points then I respect your viewpoint. But I feel people have the right to have more protection on what they pay for items such as food, energy, cloths and our Ministers should help to ensure we are not overcharged.

Thanks

p.s fleeced was a bad term to use, I was in a hurry and didn't really think the title through.

Dragan

Dragan wrote: »

Yes. Unfortunately.

Then internet petitions do nothing

AckwelFoley

Simple solution, dont shop in M & S

Dont shop in Tesco.

There are many other retailers out there and its a free market. Supply / demand.

Your choice , use it.

mikemac

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Excellent an online petition. With their great track record of changing things in the real world, how can this fail!!

Worked for Cadbury Wispas

Since the discontinuation of the Wispa bar in 2003, several internet campaigns and an online petition to bring it back slowly gained momentum. During Iggy Pop's 2007 performance at Glastonbury Festival, several Wispa fans invaded the stage armed with a banner saying "Bring Back Wispa."[2] In addition, several "Bring Back Wispa" groups on Bebo, MySpace and Facebook were set up.[5] In August 2007, these campaigns prompted Cadbury to announce that the bar would be relaunched on October 8, 2007 [6][3] for an initial limited production of 23 million bars, with a permanent return possible if sales are high enough.[3][7] Predictions that the relaunched product would be marketed as Wispa Classic[8] proved unfounded, and the new Wispa hit shelves in similar packaging to the original bar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wispa#Relaunch

Sorry, it's a bit hard to read

Miguel_Sanchez

Deleted User wrote: »

Then internet petitions do nothing

That's not true - they waste a lot of people's time completely.

Keano

Tell me something I don't know.

AckwelFoley

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Tell me something I don't know.

The square root of 9 is 3.

Keano

snyper wrote: »

The square root of 9 is 3.

That's what I need to know.

Keep em coming.

ejmaztec

Hey, Monkey24! Where would you suggest that we all do our shopping?

Dub13

I heard it been described on the radio the other day as a 'Paddy Tax'.

The Bollox

Deleted User wrote: »

Is Uwe Boll still making films?

I was about to sign when I though about this. I gave my signature away for nothing on that other petition

Scruff

Self righteous article in the indo here pontificating about the price difference shops are charging between here and the north.
But in the comments section readers have nicely pointed out the fact that the indo costs €1.80 here but only 75p (€0.95) up north.

ejmaztec

There're bad enough inter-shop price variations in the same towns, never mind different economic regions (was going to say "countries", but with the North, it might get a little sticky). In Listowel, taking that well-known economic yardstick i.e. Nescafe Mocha, you can pay anywhere between €2.76 and €3.90 for the same stuff. Up the road a few miles it's €2.64 in Tesco.

In the UK, I believe it's around £2.99, which is around €3.80. So, basically, some Irish home-grown shops are charging UK prices when it suits.

gazzer

Self righteous article in the indo here pontificating about the price difference shops are charging between here and the north.
But in the comments section readers have nicely pointed out the fact that the indo costs €1.80 here but only 75p (€0.95) up north.

That is mental that an Irish produced newspaper is vastly cheaper in sterling price then in euro

Ponster

Seen this forum monkey?

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=235

Capt'n Midnight

snyper wrote: »

The square root of 9 is 3.

works in base 16 too.

Terry

Funnily enough, we are often asked to buy Irish.
Unfortunately Irish made goods cost more than foreign goods, even though there is the fact we live on an island in the middle of the Atlantic (North/South wise) and shipping costs are really extortionate.

Fratton Fred

I heard that when tesco set up here, they set their prices just below the competition but higher than they could afford to charge, expecting a price war to break out, but it never happened. Happy days for tesco. Can't wait for Asda to open up down here.
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ejmaztec

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I heard that when tesco set up here, they set their prices just below the competition but higher than they could afford to charge, expecting a price war to break out, but it never happened. Happy days for tesco. Can't wait for Asda to open up down here.
Posted tvia Mobile Device

That just proves that the resident retailers wanted to carry on robbing.

chalad07

I think we really are being ripped off in Ireland, and i really dont think the argument of: 'If you don’t like why don’t you move, etc, etc??' is valid. Why should you move?

I've just moved from Ireland to NY, and i'm only now realizing the extent to which we pay through the nose for things in Dublin. I was expecting NY to be WAY more expensive than Dublin. Simple things like grabbing a cup of coffee - the cost difference is huge - $1 versus E2.50 app (and i'm not talking Starbucks). I think people do have a right to be annoyed,

Although an internet petition probably wont change much, mores the pity.

MooseJam

have to agree we are being fleeced, I'm OK though, started taking the five finger discount, yay me

Capt'n Midnight

Terry wrote: »

Funnily enough, we are often asked to buy Irish.
Unfortunately Irish made goods cost more than foreign goods, even though there is the fact we live on an island in the middle of the Atlantic (North/South wise) and shipping costs are really extortionate.

Oddly enough things are cheaper in the North , and they are on the same island. UK is very similar to EU again they are an island. Sardinia and Sicily are also islands that aren't as expensive as we are. Smaller islands are geared towards tourism/fleecing so they don't really count.

Terry

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Oddly enough things are cheaper in the North , and they are on the same island. UK is very similar to EU again they are an island. Sardinia and Sicily are also islands that aren't as expensive as we are. Smaller islands are geared towards tourism/fleecing so they don't really count.

One track mind there on my part.

I'm thinking of tiles, as I'm a tiler.

I worked for one of the countries biggest tile importers and know that shipping here costs quite a lot and the costs are passed onto the end user.
I would assume that the same applies to all imported goods.

ejmaztec

I think that most things in Ireland have been more expensive than in the UK, long before the competition arrived in the country. Those extortionate pricing levels were set by the likes of Dunnes, Musgrave, Quinnsworth etc. The competition simply jumped on the highly profitable bandwagon built up by these people. If it were not for the influx, I think that the situation would be a lot worse than it is.