This is taking the piss

blondie83 · 12-09-2004 03:34PM #1

I was in Messers on Friday night, and was charged 12 euro for two bottles of smirnoff ice. Now I know I live in rip-off Dublin and everything, but thats just taking the piss! I've never paid more than a fiver for a bottle before, how did it suddenly jump up to six euro? What pisses me off is that the same bottle would be STG 1.50 in a club up in Derry. How can prices be so much dearer here? Pity too, cos I really liked Messer Maguires, it was always a nice spot to go to before a club, or a good place to hang around in if you were too tired to go to a club, but wanted to stay out. Prices are too much though, one of my friends was charged 11.40 euro for a double gin and ginger ale. Thats 11.40 for one drink! They also charge 3 euro for a coke, which is fairly ridiculous. What I want to know is: is this the worst, or has anyone out there been in more expensive places in Dublin?

tba · 12-09-2004 03:44PM

thats it this has convinced me to stop drinking, that and the awful headache I have right now.

AdMMM · 12-09-2004 03:54PM

Stop buying terirble drinks that are taxed higher than good old beer!

blondie83 · 12-09-2004 04:06PM

yeah but beer gives me a terrible hangover if I've more than 4 bottles of it. And a bottle of miller in Messers cost 5.20

I'd go with pints if I could, but I'm turning into a lightweight in my old age!

AdMMM · 12-09-2004 04:13PM

blondie83 wrote:

yeah but beer gives me a terrible hangover if I've more than 4 bottles of it. And a bottle of miller in Messers cost 5.20 I'd go with pints if I could, but I'm turning into a lightweight in my old age!

5.20 for Miller?

This is an outrage!

Makaveli · 12-09-2004 04:35PM

Why don't you go to the off license and buy your drinks there and then drink them in someones house before you head out?
Save you money. It's what the majority of us poor students do.

Pigman II · 12-09-2004 04:45PM

5.40 for Satzenbrau in Messers. Don't drink the crap but had to get a round in.

snorlax · 12-09-2004 05:00PM

i paid 3.15 euros for a glass of guinnesss, thats compared to 2.15e in tgi fridays, 2.50euro in Doyles and most clubs. how the heck is messers so much dearer then a club?!

when i was in spain guinness and baileys were cheaper to buy there then here, 80cent a can and most beers were 30/40cent in supermarkets. they still made profit in spain on 80cent including the extra charges they'd have to pay for importation from Ireland.

Im convinced that ireland's gone crazy with greed !

Makaveli · 12-09-2004 05:21PM

You do realise that there is a high tax rate on alcohol in Ireland and that's why it's so much cheaper on the continent?

John R · 12-09-2004 06:11PM

Makaveli wrote:

You do realise that there is a high tax rate on alcohol in Ireland and that's why it's so much cheaper on the continent?

That doesn't explain how they can justify charging €6 for a pint of coke.

Tax is high here but it can no longer justify the huge markups on alcohol in licenced premises.

They will keep increasing the price until people do something about it; walk out of the pub.

As long as the places are packed to capacity nothing will change.

Winters · 12-09-2004 06:22PM

Bottles are expensive. Pints are not expensive when put against bottles.

Last time I bought a bottle (Heineken) it was €4.90 or something. Compare this to a pint of Heineken which is €4.20 in my local. Bulmers tbh though is the way to go. Ive never had a hangover since drinking Bulmers.

sam_hain · 12-09-2004 06:26PM

The only way that places like this are going to stop charging what they like for drinks is when everyone takes a stand a refuses to go to the places. What I find completly unfair is the fact that places can charge you an outrageous?!?!? amount just to go in to the place. Only to find it packed and then charge you extortionery amounts for a drink.

Lets face it people. They charge the amounts they do because they can get away with it. I bet if they were asked about it they would say that its because of the smoking ban that thay have to charge this amount to recoperate lost profits.

AdMMM · 12-09-2004 06:56PM

My friend was saying to me that the Pubs union (forget the name of it), asked him to say in a survey that the smoking ban was really affecting their business by saying business was down 40%, when really business was more or less the same as the year before!

Bunch of cowboys if you ask me!

SantaHoe · 12-09-2004 06:57PM

blondie83 wrote:

How can prices be so much dearer here?

Because Dublin is filled with idiots who'll just go "duh, 12 euro?! yeah ok".
Everyone has the option not to buy drink at stupid prices, you won't die without a few drinks.
Alcohol is a luxury item, you can't expect the same level of government protection as you would for something like bread and milk.
What kind of alcoholics are we that we'll buy it at any price, stay there all night blowing almost our entire weeks wages, then call up a radio show the next day moaning about the price of drink.
They're a business, they're in it for the money, they charge what they like because they can; if you're paying those prices it's your own fault.

woosaysdan · 12-09-2004 07:00PM

6 euros is a bit expensive alright but in the niteclub that i work in in clonmel they are charging €5.50 for a bottle of smirnoff ice, wkd and breezers which i very steep but most pints are only €4.00 and bottles are €4.30 which isnt that bad

Jivin Turkey · 12-09-2004 07:16PM

Its only €3 for a pint in my local

David19 · 12-09-2004 07:22PM

SantaHoe wrote:

Because Dublin is filled with idiots who'll just go "duh, 12 euro?! yeah ok".
Everyone has the option not to buy drink at stupid prices, you won't die without a few drinks.
Alcohol is a luxury item, you can't expect the same level of government protection as you would for something like bread and milk.
What kind of alcoholics are we that we'll buy it at any price, stay there all night blowing almost our entire weeks wages, then call up a radio show the next day moaning about the price of drink.
They're a business, they're in it for the money, they charge what they like because they can; if you're paying those prices it's your own fault.

Good post. You speak the truth.

Tom Dunne · 12-09-2004 08:38PM

John R wrote:

They will keep increasing the price until people do something about it; walk out of the pub.

As long as the places are packed to capacity nothing will change.

Well said John R and SantaHoe.

I rarely go to pubs in Ireland any more. Why the hell would people pay that kind of crazy money for drink? It's not that I am mean, or anti-drink. I just cannot justify paying over 4 Eurons for what is some establishments barely resembles beer.

We live in a free society. If people are stupid enough to pay the prices, then tough. Do something about it. Don't pay it.

dregin · 12-09-2004 08:43PM

I was in Messers a few weeks back and pint bottles of Tiger were €4.50 before 11 and €4.90 afterwards. I dind't think that was too bad. I have the feeling Tiger beer has been on promotion alot around Dublin for the last while though.

eth0_ · 12-09-2004 08:48PM

dregin-x wrote:

I was in Messers a few weeks back and pint bottles of Tiger were €4.50 before 11 and €4.90 afterwards. I dind't think that was too bad. I have the feeling Tiger beer has been on promotion alot around Dublin for the last while though.

Tiger is usually fairly cheap.
Was in Messers last week and one of the guys I was there with was charged €5.60 for a pint of rock shandy. NEARLY SIX EURO FOR A SOFT DRINK! That's more expensive than a pint of beer!

I won't be going back there in a hurry. How the fsck can they justify being so much more expensive than other pubs in the area? There's absolutely nothing special about messers!

robbie1876 · 12-09-2004 08:49PM

€6.40 for a pint bottle of Bulmers in Break for the Border nightclub. I actually laughed at the girl and said she can take it back, she wasn't very impressed.

David19 · 12-09-2004 08:53PM

dregin-x wrote:

I was in Messers a few weeks back and pint bottles of Tiger were €4.50 before 11 and €4.90 afterwards. I dind't think that was too bad. I have the feeling Tiger beer has been on promotion alot around Dublin for the last while though.

I was drinking pint bottles of Tiger last night for €4 in zanzibar. This was well after 11pm. 90 cents is quite a difference.

L5 · 12-09-2004 08:55PM

blondie83 wrote:

I was in Messers on Friday night, and was charged 12 euro for two bottles of smirnoff ice. Now I know I live in rip-off Dublin and everything, but thats just taking the piss! I've never paid more than a fiver for a bottle before, how did it suddenly jump up to six euro? What pisses me off is that the same bottle would be STG 1.50 in a club up in Derry. How can prices be so much dearer here? Pity too, cos I really liked Messer Maguires, it was always a nice spot to go to before a club, or a good place to hang around in if you were too tired to go to a club, but wanted to stay out. Prices are too much though, one of my friends was charged 11.40 euro for a double gin and ginger ale. Thats 11.40 for one drink! They also charge 3 euro for a coke, which is fairly ridiculous. What I want to know is: is this the worst, or has anyone out there been in more expensive places in Dublin?

I hardly ever go out in pubs or clubs in dublin or indeed anywhere now, the price of drink is ridiculous. If the price had been 15 euro i bet you still would of paid it. Youve noone to blame but yerselves for paying the prices. I still drink in friends places, but im buggered if im going to line the pockets of publicans with my hard earned cash.

nlgbbbblth · 12-09-2004 09:37PM

blondie83 wrote:

I was in Messers on Friday night, and was charged 12 euro for two bottles of smirnoff ice. Now I know I live in rip-off Dublin and everything, but thats just taking the piss!

I'd say that after overheads, wages and wholesale costs Messers are just about breaking even when they charge €6 for a Smirnoff Ice

Karl Hungus · 12-09-2004 09:47PM

Buy cans, invite friends over, watch a movie, and DRINK!

Simple.

SantaHoe · 12-09-2004 09:53PM

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John R · 12-09-2004 10:06PM

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I'd say that after overheads, wages and wholesale costs Messers are just about breaking even when they charge €6 for a Smirnoff Ice

LMFAO.

Idbatterim · 13-09-2004 10:47AM

Bondi beach club in Stillorgan has cheap drinks on a Thursday and Sunday, all pints 3 euro, all the alcopops are 3 euro and fat frogs are 4.5 euro. Other drinks youd get there for example a jack daniels and coke are about half what youd pay in town. Get there before ten or its a tenner in though. The club is as good as any in town and there are loads of taxis at the front door when your leaving, also there arent any scumbags in sight!

Big Chief · 13-09-2004 11:17AM

It's about time people stopped grouching and moaning about it and done something about, i gave up drinking over a year ago personally, i was shocked after i went out to meet friends and get a coke, yes a simple coke and i was charged 5.50, after finishing the first i left and went home.. i have rarely been to a pub or club in dublin since, and even then i refuse to buy a soft drink out of the priniciple that i refuse to pay 5-6euro for something i could get out the centra next door for 90cent

when will people learn that to get prices down, publicans wont just go "heh paddy, you know what i think were ripping off all these poor folks, why dont we push the price of a pint down to 2-3 euro even though were getting over a 100 punters in a night".. if people are silly enough to pay these ludicrious prices then im sad to say that the prices are going to stay the same and rise ever more, getting yourself skint on a friday and saturday binge and then moaning about how youve now spent the best part of your monthly wage budget is not going to do anything, by that stage the publican is already laughing all the way to the bank while your left scratching your scrotum and moaning about it forever more.

Stop moaning and do something, until then im sick of people moaning about what they are doing continously.. you know and hate what you are doing but yet repeat to do so at the weekend, some people in this life would call it "idiotic", i happen to be one of them

ChipZilla · 13-09-2004 12:18PM

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I'd say that after overheads, wages and wholesale costs Messers are just about breaking even when they charge €6 for a Smirnoff Ice

What are you smoking?

The Sweeper · 13-09-2004 12:26PM

God I'm glad I don't drink in Dublin anymore. Those prices are crazy. It means that your whole night is even MORE about drink - the price of it, who buys it, who can't afford it, where to go to get it cheap, talking about it, thinking about it, so on and so on.

This is taking the piss

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