Rip-Off Ireland Lives On In These "Harsh Economic Times"....

I Drink It Up!

Remember the big furore on Joe Duffy and Drivetime on RTE about the people heading up to Nordy Land to do their Christmas Shopping?? About how it was crippling the economy etc and how people should stay here and do their shopping?

Maplin are a well known retailer of electronics and electronic related merchandise....they sell a power-supply unit for £79.99 in their
Belfast outlet.

In their Dublin Branch, they want €132.99 for the same item.

Sterling is currently £1 = €1.14.

At the current rate, the £79.99 translates into €91.94 or so.

Yet Maplin Dublin want €132.99 for the same item.

Thats €40 over what is being charged in the North.

Considering that I will be buying more than 2 items, it is actually as cost-effective to get the train from Connolly, have a day trip, and come home. Won't cost you a penny more. In fact there is a small saving of around €10.

Sick of this....my bo**ox dropped when I saw the price today.:mad:

Needless to say I left it there.

MaybeLogic

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

Sick of this....my bo**ox dropped when I saw the price today.:mad:

Needless to say I left it there.

Don't leave it there. Someone might find it and take them.
Then where will you be, with no bollox?

Cookie_Monster

only 5-6 hours of your valueless time wasted then going to Belfast...

I Drink It Up!

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Don't leave it there. Someone might find it and take them.
Then where will you be, with no bollox?

:D:D:D Well done, well done...you got me there.

I Drink It Up!

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

only 5-6 hours of your valueless time wasted then going to Belfast...

Nah, I dont look at it like that. I am not working at the moment and I need these tools for a back-to-work project I have been working 3 months on.

I have never been to Belfast, so what harm. And there is the principle of it too. Every item in the Dublin shop is marked up on the British prices.....the solder gun I was looking at is €5 more expensive and all.

Cookie_Monster

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

Nah, I dont look at it like that. I am not working at the moment and I need these tools for a back-to-work project I have been working 3 months on.

I have never been to Belfast, so what harm. And there is the principle of it too. Every item in the Dublin shop is marked up on the British prices.....the solder gun I was looking at is €5 more expensive and all.

fair enough so

I Drink It Up!

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

fair enough so

Cheers. I would travel to Newry or Porta-dine if they had a Maplins branch there. As it happens I promised a Scottish customer I would send their product via Royal Mail and so I can kill those two birds with one stone when I get to Belfast.

And Biffo can scream for his money.....:cool:

ejmaztec

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

Remember the big furore on Joe Duffy and Drivetime on RTE about the people heading up to Nordy Land to do their Christmas Shopping?? About how it was crippling the economy etc and how people should stay here and do their shopping?

Maplin are a well known retailer of electronics and electronic related merchandise....they sell a power-supply unit for £79.99 in their
Belfast outlet.

In their Dublin Branch, they want €132.99 for the same item.

Sterling is currently £1 = €1.14.

At the current rate, the £79.99 translates into €91.94 or so.

Yet Maplin Dublin want €132.99 for the same item.

Thats €40 over what is being charged in the North.

Considering that I will be buying more than 2 items, it is actually as cost-effective to get the train from Connolly, have a day trip, and come home. Won't cost you a penny more. In fact there is a small saving of around €10.

Sick of this....my bo**ox dropped when I saw the price today.:mad:

Needless to say I left it there.

I'm assuming that you're talking about a desktop PSU? If you are, then don't even buy at their UK prices, because they're robbers there as well.

Gyalist

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

Remember the big furore on Joe Duffy and Drivetime on RTE about the people heading up to Nordy Land to do their Christmas Shopping?? About how it was crippling the economy etc and how people should stay here and do their shopping?

Maplin are a well known retailer of electronics and electronic related merchandise....they sell a power-supply unit for £79.99 in their
Belfast outlet.

In their Dublin Branch, they want €132.99 for the same item.

Sterling is currently £1 = €1.14.

At the current rate, the £79.99 translates into €91.94 or so.

Yet Maplin Dublin want €132.99 for the same item.

Thats €40 over what is being charged in the North.

Considering that I will be buying more than 2 items, it is actually as cost-effective to get the train from Connolly, have a day trip, and come home. Won't cost you a penny more. In fact there is a small saving of around €10.

Sick of this....my bo**ox dropped when I saw the price today.:mad:

Needless to say I left it there.

You're clearly clueless as to the cost of running a business in Ireland. You can't just extrapolate the price from the sterling conversion. VAT rates are substantially higher, as are wages, rent, rates, electricity, insurance, and almost every other cost of doing business.

AnonoBoy

I'm going to ring Joe Duffy and complain that the mephadrone costs way more in headshops here than it does up North.

Let's see how he handles that one!

ejmaztec

Gyalist wrote: »

You're clearly clueless as to the cost of running a business in Ireland. You can't just extrapolate the price from the sterling conversion. VAT rates are substantially higher, as are wages, rent, rates, electricity, insurance, and almost every other cost of doing business.

As he would have been told in the Rip Off Ireland forum, where people would have jumped all over him and turned him into a gibbering wreck.

partyatmygaff

Maplin are a rip off whether north or south. Besides that, Wages here are higher, rent here is higher, vat here is higher, costs in general here are higher and Maplin aren't going to be making a loss.

KerranJast

Why would you bother buying off them anyway? The likes of Dabs are cheaper for nearly everything.

I Drink It Up!

ejmaztec wrote: »

I'm assuming that you're talking about a desktop PSU? If you are, then don't even buy at their UK prices, because they're robbers there as well.

Yes sir, it is a bench top power supply unit. I can go on ebay but I am talking 3 weeks delay, plus the dreaded customs man.

partyatmygaff

Buy it off a uk/eu based website then, guaranteed to be much much cheaper. No customs and you will be waiting at most 1 week.

I Drink It Up!

Gyalist wrote: »

You're clearly clueless as to the cost of running a business in Ireland. You can't just extrapolate the price from the sterling conversion. VAT rates are substantially higher, as are wages, rent, rates, electricity, insurance, and almost every other cost of doing business.

Belfast Euro-Equivalent Price : €91.18

Dublin Price: : €133

Diesel and Petrol are more expensive in the North.

€40 of an increase on a sub €100 unit is A RIP OFF in ANYONES language.

super_furry

Maplins are terrible anyway and always overpriced, I mean they charge for their catalogue FFS!

I Drink It Up!

super_furry wrote: »

Maplins are terrible anyway and always overpriced, I mean they charge for their catalogue FFS!

I dont disagree.

Amhran Nua

super_furry wrote: »

Maplins are terrible anyway and always overpriced, I mean they charge for their catalogue FFS!

I dunno, the staff at the one I go to in Galway are usually pretty good, they throw in the catalogue for free on some purchases so you can use the vouchers to get a discount on what you just bought. Not too bad, and a lot better than "buy a warranty pleeease" PC world.

I Drink It Up!

Dabs dont appear to be much use anyways, I am looking for a variable voltage unit which puts out 1-20v at 1-5A and increments in between those values. Dabs seem to do do power units for Servers and the like.

Lu Tze

I Drink It Up! wrote: »

Dabs dont appear to be much use anyways, I am looking for a variable voltage unit which puts out 1-20v at 1-5A and increments in between those values. Dabs seem to do do power units for Servers and the like.

Radionics might have what you are looking for

I Drink It Up!

Lu Tze wrote: »

Radionics might have what you are looking for

Tried. Failed. But thanks anyways. Cheers.

I am not at all upset about going to Belfast, just pissed at the %33% hike on Irish prices.