Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:01, Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 21/02/06, Buddy Coffey <bcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> > > How much?  Sometimes a local store beats the net and new books do not
> > > always show on Pricegrabber.com
> >
> > $26 at Borders.com
>
> Annoyingly, this will then be listed as £26UK in our bookstores.  

Or perhaps £30 or £35. I often see books for sale here for which British 
suppliers charge 50 per cent and more in sterling than US consumers are 
paying in dollars. But of course it's worth it for our *fantastic* 
all-year-round beach-wear climate - that's why we're all that lovely bronze 
colour.

> Yet 
> $26US is actually the equivalent of approx'  £14UK or £15UK.  Be glad
> you don't live in rip off Britain.
>
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> Kevan Farmer
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