is this good value

irish_bob

hi there
ok im a sucker for a good bargain and was curious as to whether what i bought today in a sale was a bargain

i bought a douglas jacket , was reduced from 220 euro to 180 , considered heading across the border to newry but not to sound pompous , i dont like the idea of giving the queens shilling to the queens goverment

wixfjord

Yea that feckin queen has been inflating our clothing prices for 800 years. *shakes fist*

Creamy Goodness

:rolleyes:

Peyton Manning

irish_bob wrote: »

hi there
ok im a sucker for a good bargain and was curious as to whether what i bought today in a sale was a bargain

i bought a douglas jacket , was reduced from 220 euro to 180 , considered heading across the border to newry but not to sound pompous , i dont like the idea of giving the queens shilling to the queens goverment

Dont worry, you dont sound pompous.

Idiotic, immature, arrogant and downright stupid.......yes.

But you avoided pompous.

dudara

irish_bob wrote: »

hi there
ok im a sucker for a good bargain and was curious as to whether what i bought today in a sale was a bargain

i bought a douglas jacket , was reduced from 220 euro to 180

Well, a 40 euro reduction from 220 is only 18% approximately, which doesn't seem like a good reduction to me. But then I've never heard of this Douglas brand.

irish_bob

Archimedes wrote: »

Dont worry, you dont sound pompous.

Idiotic, immature, arrogant and downright stupid.......yes.

But you avoided pompous.

do me a favour , wash your jack boots the next time

Bring it on!!!

ya...i actually agree with you about not going over the boarder, we should be supporting our own shops!!!

sheena1985

Bring it on!!! wrote: »

ya...i actually agree with you about not going over the boarder, we should be supporting our own shops!!!

Most of these shops with over inflated Euro prices are British, so really your only increasing the British chains profits by shopping here...

I think if people have the opportunity to purchase from the UK, they should, if sales decrease badly in the Irish shops, maybe the UK retailers will get the message and lower the Euro prices to reflect a more accurate exchange rate.

I don't remember any Irish politicians telling the Northerners last year to buy there petrol at home, and to stop coming down here....

LivingDeadGirl

Bring it on!!! wrote: »

ya...i actually agree with you about not going over the boarder, we should be supporting our own shops!!!

And get ripped off? No thanks!

fifomania

Why should we support shops here when we're getting robbed blind!? I saw a Topshop coat which was €85 but only £54, do the maths! I do almost all my shopping for food and clothes in the North and am happy at it! It's ridiculous the way things have become North versus South, let people shop where they want! I'd love to know the percentage of shop owners in the South who shop in the North when possible, I'm guessing it's high!

MagicMarker

Eh, you spent 180 euro on an item of clothing. No, that's not good value, that's fúcking retarded.

after googling douglas jacket

http://jabotsboutique.com/mjkt04.jpg

lolwut

irish_bob

bluewolf wrote: »

after googling douglas jacket

http://jabotsboutique.com/mjkt04.jpg

lolwut

mine aint anything like that

im not defending them but retailers in the south cant match thier northern counterparts as the cost base here is much higer , the minimum wage in the south is about 2 euro an hour higher than in the uk , add to that the exchange rate at the moment and its impossible for the south to be on a par with the north

jdivision

irish_bob wrote: »

mine aint anything like that

im not defending them but retailers in the south cant match thier northern counterparts as the cost base here is much higer , the minimum wage in the south is about 2 euro an hour higher than in the uk , add to that the exchange rate at the moment and its impossible for the south to be on a par with the north

do you know what retailers standard margins are? Come on. anyway, besides that, I think you were ripped off. You can regularly get Douglas jackets in Arnotts bargain basement for about E40. I wouldn't be buying anything in the sales unless it was at least 50% off - 30% for the drop in sterling and then the extra 20% as a discount (which is 30% of what's left after sterling differential stripped out)

PrivateEye

Have a bit of a dislike for British tax-robbing inbred warmonger unemployed parisite families myself, but....


...i also hate bring ripped off


You're hardly funding the Queens lifestyling spending 2or3 hundred quid up the road. Fianna Fail (a 'Republican' party, who seek the unification of Ireland) tell you its 'unpatriotic' to shop there. By the logic that you don't want to give the Queen 23.4pence, the young socialists and republicans on the streets during the Battle of the Bogside shoulda been in the nip :pac:

When the southern corporate powers that be stop ripping us off, we'll give them our cash. Its the corportate powers that be you're funding in the North, not the Queen. And in the grand ol' scheme, it makes NO DIFFERENCE if you buy you're Jeans in Topman Dublin or Topman Belfast when it comes to who makes a profit.