River Island and Topshop have lowered prices

Corruptedmorals

River Island dramatically. Jeans were €67.50 a good while ago, when the rate WAS 1.1.5, then €58..now they're €48. The sterling price is £40, not bad.

Topshop's is a bit stingy..skirts were €46, now €43. It better just be the start.

fonpokno

Really?? It's about time tbh...

I hope Topshop lower the price of their jeans. Love them but can't ever afford them.

Peyton Manning

Cool, hopefully the mens section is the same. Need a new pair of jeans after an incident with some bleach.

Cheers for the heads up OP.

Twee.

I'm afraid there's no sign of Topshop lowering their prices.

anotherlostie

I was in London a week ago and noticed that the G Star Euro prices were 25% higher than the Sterling ones, so looks like the stores are finally getting their act in order. I'm actually surprised that they didn't just increase the sterling ones to account for the lower rate and leave the euro prices as they were!

fonpokno

Twee. wrote: »

I'm afraid there's no sign of Topshop lowering their prices.

Awwww you are the bringer of sad sad news...

Corruptedmorals

There was in Topshop Jervis..everything was €3/4 off. The previous price is ripped off but I know what their prices are..I didn't check the jeans.

MissLe

I saw a skirt in topshop for 43 euro. Went home and checked the price of it on the online store and was only 28 pound.

Prices lowered?? I think not.

Corruptedmorals

MissLe wrote: »

I saw a skirt in topshop for 43 euro. Went home and checked the price of it on the online store and was only 28 pound.

Prices lowered?? I think not.

But the skirt WAS €46, that's been their skirt price for ages. I said it was stingy, but they might continue lowering.

miss no stars

Yeah I noticed this too! I was in RI the other day and noticed that a top had been €48 but was now €40. Was glad to see them in line with UK prices (where, to be fair, VAT IS lower, as are wages, so some difference is to be expected).

However, I was unimpressed with topshop. They need to come down more.

Only and Vero Moda also have prices that are numerically identical to the sterling prices

moonflower

It really annoys me that Topshop have started ripping off the sterling price from the tags.

I'm not buying from their Irish stores anymore, shipping from the UK is only £5 and when I've ordered in the past it's only taken a few days to get here.

MissLe

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

But the skirt WAS €46, that's been their skirt price for ages. I said it was stingy, but they might continue lowering.

Sorry I misread. Hopefully they'll lower the prices, the difference is ridiculous!

MissLe

moonflower wrote: »

It really annoys me that Topshop have started ripping off the sterling price from the tags.

I'm not buying from their Irish stores anymore, shipping from the UK is only £5 and when I've ordered in the past it's only taken a few days to get here.

Yeah thats the best thing to do and if your unure of the size try it on in the shop before you order online!

I'm lucky enough to live near the North. It might be bad but I don't buy anything in the South! Can't afford to!

SarahJ

MissLe wrote: »

Yeah thats the best thing to do and if your unure of the size try it on in the shop before you order online!

I'm lucky enough to live near the North. It might be bad but I don't buy anything in the South! Can't afford to!

i was just gona say to try it on in the shop before lol. Seriously, it doesn't take long to be delivered, so it's defo saving money! Or just head up north!

jellie

oasis have too, they had new sticker prices over their prices when i was in there today, difference of about 10euro on the more expensive items (~70/80euro) - i peeled off 1 of the price stickers to check! :P

blue banana

I noticed about €10 off in Prniciples in the €40-€70 range, more off more expensive items. At least it's a start.

Twee.

fonpokno wrote: »

Awwww you are the bringer of sad sad news...

I'm afraid I work there and every day I get people complaining about the prices and I have no good news to tell them. It gets VERY annoying as I, a lowly sales assistant, have nothing to do with price tags printed six months ago! They have, as Moonflower said, just been ripping off the sterling price tags. A bit ridiculous tbh but the complaints never stop.

dulchie75

Shop online at dorothy perkins the stuff is far cheaper and delivery is only £4, at the moment they are giving an extra 15% off if you spend over £50.

Just ordered a dress for £30 and it's €50 in the shops.

Can't wait to get my delivery:D

Piste

Topshop have come up with an ingenious way to placate we grumbling public. Their wonderful solution involves then not taking a cut off their profit margins and the general public being satisfied. What is this revolutionary new scheme they have enacted? It's quite simple: Remove the Sterling prices from all clothes tag and the customer will NEVER guess that there are huge discrepancies between what we SHOULD be paying and what we ARE paying. Because of course the customer couldn't possibly realise that the Sterling price has been removed in order for the wool to be yanked firmly down over their eyes.

Fortunately some price tags have the Sterling and Euro prices side by side and not one on top of another, so they haven't been removed. If you see these tags you realise that Topshop (and River Island too for that matter, though they havent removed their Sterling prices) are still operating at the old conversion rate.

I'm disgusted by it. Especially seeing as River Island wont ship to Ireland (but NI is no problem apparently) and they wont even ship to my friend's house in Derry as his address doesn't match the one on my mum'c credit card. At least Topshop ship to Ireland for a decent rate. Does anyone know if you pay in Sterling or they make you pay in Euro?

I cannot in good conscience buy from these shops knowing I could get the clothes much more cheaply if I lived a hundred miles north of my house or if they'd only post them over.

Corruptedmorals

Ah now, an exchange rate of £40/€48 on RI's jeans is a lot better when their jeans were £40/€67.50 back in the day. Their tops used to be €50.50 and are now in the region of €39.50. Fair play to them, could have done it sooner though...Topshop's price decrease is too low really. Oasis got the permanent markers out for their sterling price tags. Most shops have though, too many complaints and/or muppets trying to pay in sterling.

moonflower

Piste wrote: »

I'm disgusted by it. Especially seeing as River Island wont ship to Ireland (but NI is no problem apparently) and they wont even ship to my friend's house in Derry as his address doesn't match the one on my mum'c credit card. At least Topshop ship to Ireland for a decent rate. Does anyone know if you pay in Sterling or they make you pay in Euro?

I'm fairly sure you pay in sterling, but the receipt comes converted to euro (at the proper exhange rate, not their jacked up one).

Piste

Ah that's grand so. Pity I cant use my christmas vouchers online.

moonflower

I've just remembered, if you're ordering on the Topshop website you can get an extra 10% off but putting any 15-digit number in the student code box. I was annoyed that I couldn't use my student card and tried it and it works