Stg v Euro price

2judge

A major electrical retail store with branches in UK & Ireland has an item (product code number exactly the same) for sale in UK for stg 399, price in Dublin euro 649, that is about stg 175 dearer in Ireland, what a rip off!

Shop around online. Start with Irish retailers, obviously - there can be big variations sometimes. I found I got excellent value on small appliances by just buying them in Germany online. Plenty of places, including Amazon.de will ship and at most you just need to use a proper pin converter plug that fits over the European plug, or jut change the plug.

Dodge

Just post the links. Why protect them?

paul71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058277997/stg-v-euro-price

Name shame please.

I'm beginning to wonder if some of those UK retailers are just using UK supply lines and simply applying full customs and import charges here and assuming nobody will shop around? You're better off just voting with your wallet if you see that and going somewhere else.

The inertia factor can be huge and Irish consumers are notoriously price insensitive.

That kind of approach will just see them go out of business as it's totally uncompetitive.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058277997/stg-v-euro-price

A major supermarket has items priced differently in stores in Dublin.

Is this a rip-off as well?

Retailers are entitled to price products at whatever they like, and consumers are entitled to ignore the prices if they like.

Would you be happy if the electrical store raised their prices in the UK to match the Irish price? You would still be paying the same, but not feeling ripped off?

paul71

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120059911#Comment_120059911

But Irish consumers are not price sensitive. Currys, PC World, Next, M&S have been doing the above for decades and Irish consumers tolerated it. Even newspapers and Magazines were doing back as far as pre Euro days.

Yeah, but I think we need to start being a lot more so. There's no point in flushing your money down the toilet because you won't check the price in two shops.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058277997/stg-v-euro-price

Take the sterling wage then, you'll see why the price difference is.

Wages are often very poor in the UK

You're somewhat defending the indefensible there. Ireland is very price uncompetitive compared to countries with high wages too. It's an island, with limited supply chains and price insensitive shoppers who seem to not notice and just get gouged.

A lot of it is down to scale of market and a consumer culture that's full of inertia.

walterking

Sometimes there's an offer on a uk site and the offer is not on the irish site - is this the case here?

The only retailer with UK & Ireland operations is currys - their service may be crap, but generally prices here are a little lower than the UK. But there can be an exception.

The likes of M&S and TK Maxx on the other hand have a blanket rip off exchange rate of about 1.50 - 1.55 on almost everything