to be hacked off at yet another example of rip-off Britain

[clam]

Can someone please explain why Boots No 7 Protect & Perfect Body serum retails over here at £25, yet in the USA, you can get it in Target for 25 dollars? (approx £12.75). WHY, WHY, WHY?? It's manufactured over here, fgs. I am SO FED UP with this. Why do we put up with this and just pay up every time?

[TheArmadillo]

YANBU. The way to stop this is to import the stuff (if it works out cheaper) or to stop buying it full stop.

Is the only way it will change.

[Flashman]

Because us brits are idiots - we never actual DO anything - we all just piss and moan!

[clam]

well I suppose I am veto-ing it in a way, in that I get my friend in the US to buy products I like for me and bring them back when she comes. And I point blank REFUSE to buy a car at the moment until this credit crunch really hits home and retailers get realistic with their ridiculous prices. How do other people afford it?

[Tortington]

i predict a riot
i predict a riot

[Flashman]

Cars I think are an interesting one - while the price of a new car is high - it keeps the price of second hand cars higher - would you want your current car to fall in value?

[Desiderata]

Lol at 'we never actually do anything!'

Apart from inventing almost everything on the globe currently invented, no .. I guess you're right

Just don't buy Boots No.7 Protect and Perfect Body Serum.

[Desiderata]

In the States, you have to pay through the nose for private medical insurance. They don't have an NHS, as you know.

So, it's swings and roundabouts. You might save £12 on a bottle of serum, but a broken leg might cost you $2000.

[tissy]

LOLOL

you don't have to put up with it; it's not exactly vital, is it?

It may be cheaper to import the stuff from the States, but think of the carbon footprint!

[francagoestohollywood]

Doesn't it depend on the value of the pound? ???

[Desiderata]

Yes, let's all fly to New York for £500 and save some money on pointless consumer goods

[Desiderata]

Or, you could buy it on-line from the States, and the Postman will baffling charge you £27.50 to deliver it. Something to do with American Customs & Excise duties??

[nametaken]

Hi Clam just wanted to let you know that Boots Timedelay products are exactly the same as the Protect and Perfect range but are half the price.

Next time you're in Boots, get the Protect and Perfect body lotion, then find the Time Delay body lotion and look on the ingredients list on the back. Exactly the same!!!!

Same goes for the famous beauty serum. The Time Delay one is exactly the same but half the price.

I kid you not.

[Flashman]

Desiderate - I mean as in We never do anything - US the great British public - we just piss and moan and just take the crap servie the general rip off

[Desiderata]

But the great British public are responsible for the crap service. It is we who are providing it!!

What do you propose? That we demand the cost of non-essential stuff is brought down?

Nope. You just vote with your feet. Nobody's skin actually needs serum, so just don't buy it.

The grass isn't greener in the States. Other, more essential things, cost a great deal more.

This is a consumer society. If you don't buy what you don't need, none of it actually matters.

[Flashman]

But that is my point we don't vote with our feet - we just moan. i bet if I check in 6 months the sales of Boots serum has not dropped

[mazzystar]

lol at getting so het up about serum

well, those lucky yanks may get their superflous beauty products at 40% off but they have to pay for their own healthcare. take your pick

[Desiderata]

Precisely, mazzy.

[SenoraPostrophe]

hear hear mazzystar.

and do you know what? I wouldn't pay £12.75 for a tube of moisturiser anyway.

[Desiderata]

Of course the price will drop if nobody buys it, Flash. That's what sales are all about.

I don't think I've ever bought anything top-dollar in my life. I just wait until the price comes down ... and if it doesn't, I don't buy it.

[pointydog]

market forces. It got a good press so people will pay silly money. Buy another cheaper one. As gok says, there's really nothing better about an expensive one

[MKG]

Don't worry we're paying $1.20 for the same pill you get for $0.60.

[Desiderata]

That is so true, pointy. Extensive research has repeatedly proven that, for instance, expensive tooth pastes are no better than own-brand, that cheap bog paper doesn't wipe your arse any the worse, and that laboratory moisturizer, if you use it, has no long-term effect on your complexion.

In fact, some expensivie moisturizers have been proven to thin the skin, and make it more susceptible to UV rays, despite the claims on the box.

[Flashman]

Desiderata I will try again - yes I understand that if people do not buy it the price should come down - however generally in this country people do not boycott goods to force the price down. I can't think of a product where WE the people have done that. And I stand by my 6 month forecast on the serum.

And pointy dog - Indeed other wise companies are wasting millions on ads otherwise.

[Desiderata]

Well, I boycott products to bring the price down, as I've mentioned earlier.

If I can't buy it in a sale, I don't bother. Doesn't that equate to the same thing?

And if everybody did that, then your prices would come down, surely?

If you're guilty of buying non-essentials at top-notch prices, don't take it out on me, kid

[SenoraPostrophe]

actually flash, we do it all the time.

lots of us didn't buy houses because they were too expensive, and guess what?