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Foreign stores Selling Irish Products Cheaper Than Irish Stores

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  • #32
    Cool Mo D
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Jameson in Walgreens (US) $22.99
    Jameson in O'Briens Dublin €23.99 ($32.43)

    Tax in US 7%
    Tax in Ireland 23%

    Adjusted roughly $21 in US and $25 in Ireland.
    hfallada wrote: »
    You can buy a bottle for vodka in Germany for a fiver. So there is **** all tax on alcohol and cigarettes in Germany. But a **** load of income taxes and social security.

    But you seriously have to question why Irish steak is cheaper in a supermarket in Italy than in Ireland.
    Matt_Trakker wrote: »
    I live in West Poland, a bottle of Jameson is 59zl, that's €14.12. Can get Bushmills for a similar price.
    Can't get much Irish stuff here tbh, Guinness in a pub is around 12zl, that's €3, but a normal Tyskie/Zywiec would be around 6/7zl, €2.50.
    Can of Guinness don't cost much either, but Guinness is weak, only 4.3% alcohol, Polish beer is much stronger, usually 6-7% and above.

    Can get some Irish cheese too, it's about 12zl, €3, normal Polish cheese would be about 3 or 4 zloty, but it's not good.

    Would be nice if ya could get some Lyons tea here though, Polish tea is piss-weak. Usually have to double bag.

    One of the reasons that booze is more expensive in Ireland is because VAT is not the only tax on alcohol. There is also excise duty, and on a typical 1L, €30 bottle of spirits, about €20 of that is pure tax. Have a look at the duty free booze prices in Dublin airport for more examples.


  • #33
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Not a food stuff but eye drops which are made in Castlebar and are sold here on Prescription for €40+. The exact same drops, made in Castlebar, can be bought over the counter in Tenerife for €5. It's a complete joke and completely unjustifiable.


  • #34
    General General
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    Only in Ireland would this happ...


  • #35
    Thegalwayman
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    CJC999 wrote: »
    Not a food stuff but eye drops which are made in Castlebar and are sold here on Prescription for €40+. The exact same drops, made in Castlebar, can be bought over the counter in Tenerife for €5. It's a complete joke and completely unjustifiable.

    What eyedrops?


  • #36
    clairefontaine
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Jameson in Walgreens (US) $22.99
    Jameson in O'Briens Dublin €23.99 ($32.43)

    Tax in US 7%
    Tax in Ireland 23%

    Adjusted roughly $21 in US and $25 in Ireland.

    Does that include the sales tax at the till?

    You can add an extra 8.9% to that in my state.


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  • #37
    MadsL
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Jameson in Walgreens (US) $22.99
    Jameson in O'Briens Dublin €23.99 ($32.43)

    Tax in US 7%
    Tax in Ireland 23%

    Adjusted roughly $21 in US and $25 in Ireland.
    clairefontaine wrote: »
    Does that include the sales tax at the till?

    You can add an extra 8.9% to that in my state.

    I actually completely fecked up that comparison - I deducted the US sales tax instead of adding it.

    So 22.99+7% = $24.59 roughly the same as in Ireland.


  • #38
    clairefontaine
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    MadsL wrote: »
    I actually completely fecked up that comparison - I deducted the US sales tax instead of adding it.

    So 22.99+7% = $24.59 roughly the same as in Ireland.

    You said it was $32 [E24] in Ireland. Still cheaper.

    Sales tax varies state to state btw.


  • #39
    hfallada
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    Ciaran_B wrote: »
    It's made in Germany. RTE did a bunch of radio stuff from Germany during the summer and one of the interviews was at the German Kerrygold factory.

    Its not. I was in the tiny town where the Kerrygold factory is. The butter is shipped frozen and cut into smaller blocks and sold. I didnt see a single dairy cow driving through the region for a month,

    I dont believe 90% of what you hear on RTE when reporting on foreign countries. They tend to "leave" info out


  • #40
    MadsL
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    clairefontaine wrote: »
    You said it was $32 [E24] in Ireland. Still cheaper.

    Sales tax varies state to state btw.

    The same before tax ($25)


  • #41
    donegal__road
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    hfallada wrote: »
    Its not. I was in the tiny town where the Kerrygold factory is. The butter is shipped frozen and cut into smaller blocks and sold. I didnt see a single dairy cow driving through the region for a month,

    I dont believe 90% of what you hear on RTE when reporting on foreign countries. They tend to "leave" info out

    shipped frozen from where hfallada? Brought into Ireland you mean?




    p.s. Donegal Catch is not caught in Donegal... surprise surprise



    .


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  • #42
    peewee_44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭peewee_44


    I shop in Aldi where everything is cheaper


  • #43
    Wibbs
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    Rabelais wrote: »
    Until consumers become actively more price conscious then it will continue.
    Very much so and I do think in this particular respect we're quite a ways behind other cultures. Except in Cavan...:)

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #44
    Fratton Fred
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    Reminds me of people I knew who lived in Faversham and would do regular day trips to France, always making sure they visited the Eastenders booze warehouse to stock up on Bishop's Finger and Spitfire ale on the way back.


  • #45
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Maybe part of it is that the councils charge huge rates and the rents on shops can only be adjusted upwards?


  • #46
    SpaceTime
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    There's very little point in comparing alcohol prices as the majority of the difference will be made up by tax. There are excise taxes added to alcohol and tobacco products way beyond VAT.

    The biggest costs in Ireland come from the property bubble : ludicrously high commercial rents and rates. That's usually why the prices are so steep.

    Everything comes down to that really.

    The Irish economy is like a big funnel that takes money from everything and hands it to property speculators.
    Huge mortgages and rents all just add up to higher prices, higher wage requirements, less disposable income and a more unbalanced economy.
    We never really got over the days of the wealthy 19th century landlord class as many Irish people aspired to be that all over again.


  • #47
    Billy86
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    Matt_Trakker wrote: »
    I live in West Poland...
    Tell me, genuine question........... how's the bread?

    :pac::pac::pac:


  • #48
    hfallada
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    donegal__road wrote: »
    shipped frozen from where hfallada? Brought into Ireland you mean?




    p.s. Donegal Catch is not caught in Donegal... surprise surprise



    .

    Kerrygold is shipped frozen from Ireland to Germany to be cut up for packaging. Neither is any Irish sounding honey produced in Ireland


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