European Pricing

[Penguin45]

Have we all see the Yurtsen posts? Fella in Finland with a Candy Alise 105? Dangerous DIY’er IMO, but, little nugget later in the thread caught my attention. He paid 800 Euros for the machine, which is £555 and a few pence at the current exchange rate. From his point of view, he’s got quite an investment in this pile of junk. Given that you can’t sell a Candy over here for much more that £300, we have to ask, is there something wrong with the Finns? Or are their retailers not as aggressive as ours? Or do we have a manufacturer exploiting a market (I don’t blame them if they are – we’re all doing this to make a profit)? The thing that struck me was that if you can flog this in Finland at what is obviously a huge mark up, eventually, why bother with the UK at all?

BTW, if you type Candy Elise 105 into Gooooooooooooogle, it goes straight to…….. UKW!! 😆

Chris.

[clivejameson]

Re: European Pricing

…with any luck they won’t bother, Chris 😆
(just off to put a fresh elastoplast on after changing a tsg on a candy today pftttt) 😡

[kwatt]

Re: European Pricing

It could be the taxation system Chris as, IIRC, the Scandanavian countries are hit really hard on that front and are even more expensive than the UK.

Oh and type in a whole host of things to do with the industry into Google and you’ll get UKW and MSN and Altavista and Jeeves and, and, and… 😉

K.

[Alex]

Re: European Pricing

One thing which is very noticeable across the channel:- They don’t have the sheds being the likes of Currys, Comet or even Argos B&Q etc. It just doesn’t seem to be in their culture. The nearest you might see is the odd Euronics (Electrodomestci). Otherwise they are in the high streets along with the fashion shops and Cafes etc. The delivery and even the repairs are handled by a guy in a tatty boiler suit, driving an old Citroen van looking like it is a chicken hut. The weird thing is, you can go into an industrial estate in Italy or France and find a brilliant Restaurant. I know of a Scottish Pub just outside Sussegano in Northern Italy, called the Inverness right in a redevelopment area. Real Ale in Pint Glasses as well as all the Whiskies you could ever think of. Even the clock is an hour slow. Menu is Italian though, no Haggis or Neeps & Tatties for example.

I digress.

Go to Austria or Eastern Europe and the whole place is closed on a Sunday, some even on Saturday p.m. as well. The big boys have in my opinion assisted our 24 hour culture, but it must be said that may be customer driven. What I’m getting at is the manner of trading over here, which is stack-em high and bung-em out like pats of butter. We as consumers are price driven when it comes to purchases. Yet try buying a car in mainland Europe and there are still significant savings. The power of such trading levels forces the prices on the shop floor.

Rant over, work to do.

Alex

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