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Things you could buy with the Punt which cost more with the Euro

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  • #32
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    The introduction of the euro had a minimal effect, but inflation has been impacting the price of commodities for hundreds of years.

    Think back to the price of petrol (or anything you like) in 2001 pre euro and 1970.


  • #33
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Business Cat wrote: »
    CD's were the the thing I noticed were more expensive with the eurdo.
    Before it came in you could buy a new release album for for around £15. When the change happened it bumped to around €20.
    Havnt bought a CD in years though.
    Remember when you started buying CDs direct from HongKong with cdwow!
    That was amazing at the time.


  • #34
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    kavanada wrote: »
    £15 is €20 basically, Business Cat.
    Well technically €19.04607117643772 or €19.05


  • #35
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,071 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Computers are probably cheaper.


  • #36
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,905 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Anyone remember what a pack of fags cost pre euro times?
    What about electricity? Gas?


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  • #37
    Whyohwhy?
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 126 ✭✭Whyohwhy?


    bear1 wrote: »
    Anyone remember what a pack of fags cost pre euro times?
    What about electricity? Gas?

    10 John player blue were £1.60 odd... Not sure how long before the euro was brought in though a bout a year I think. No idea on gas or electricity, still don't!


  • #38
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    fullstop wrote: »
    It was a hell of a long time before the euro that Mars bars were 26 or 28p!
    I don't think it was.

    Fairly sure I remember Moros being 28p (on reduction from 32p) in late 2001.
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Excise duty on a pint has increased by 7c since 1998.
    It went up 10c in 2013 and again in 2014.

    Do you mean 7c a year?

    On a side note, I hate the use of the word "punt". Nobody ever called it the punt back when it was being used - why do people use it now? Daft revisionism.


  • #39
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    cdeb wrote: »
    I don't think it was.

    Fairly sure I remember Moros being 28p (on reduction from 32p) in late 2001.


    It went up 10c in 2013 and again in 2014.

    Do you mean 7c a year?

    On a side note, I hate the use of the word "punt". Nobody ever called it the punt back when it was being used - why do people use it now? Daft revisionism.

    Are we talking about Mars or Moro? Because Mars had that reduced price flasher on it in the summer of '95, that's quite a bit before the euro.


  • #40
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Well I'm assuming all bars cost roughly the same amount.

    I think it was actually early 2002 that Moro (not Mars) bars were 28p on special from 32p - remember thinking they must have been the last of the batch.


  • #41
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,805 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    cdeb wrote: »
    Do you mean 7c a year?
    From Taxpolicy.gov.ie http://taxpolicy.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/12-20-General-Excise-Duties.pdf
    The excise duty on all alcohol products was decreased by around 20% in Budget
    2010. Prior to that, the excise duty on beer had remained unchanged since the Budget of
    January 1994 (apart from the introduction in October 2008 of a new 50% lower rate of excise
    for beers and cider of alcohol strength by volume of less than 2.8%)

    Today's excise rate is 22.55 per hectolitre per cent of alcohol in the beer. For something at 4% this works out at 51.23c

    see also http://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/19131/ which says €19.87 back in 1994
    (what it doesn't say is how many drinkers changed from cider to beer)
    Also back in 1970 excise contributed to 16.5% of revenue.


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  • #42
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Completely missed that somehow! :eek:


  • #43
    Dricmeister
    Site Banned Posts: 109 ✭✭Dricmeister


    Remember when a packet of crisps (Tayto) were 10/11/12p? The pack had the price on it (down in the corner).

    I also remember going to rugby matches in Lansdowne Road when the schoolboy tickets were £3. Compare that to the price of attending a game now.


  • #44
    Gaygooner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Gaygooner


    40p for chocolate in 98 so I'd image it was 45/50p in 2001 pre euro


  • #45
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    cdeb wrote: »
    Well I'm assuming all bars cost roughly the same amount.

    I think it was actually early 2002 that Moro (not Mars) bars were 28p on special from 32p - remember thinking they must have been the last of the batch.

    Definitely not, it was 1995. I remember it very well.


  • #46
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,024 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Computers are probably cheaper.

    Technology is much cheaper now all around. When my parents moved into their first house in the 80s, they bought a TV and VHS player on higher purchase that cost about £1000 in total.

    My first proper entry level PC back in 2000/01 cost £600.

    Videogames for home consoles cost £40-£50 as standard. You'd get one for Christmas, one for your birthday and the rest would be rented/swapped with friends.

    We did still have proper sized Yorkies back then though so I'm not sure who was better off :pac:


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