Prices going up due since Brexit vote?
superkenners
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Have been looking at a few upgrades recently and have noticed that prices have been creeping up for lots of cycling items. Ok not prices exactly, but the discount to RRP that online stores offer. Usually 20-30% discounts on the RRP for wheelsets were the norm, but this has been whittled back to 10%. Similarly clothing prices seem to have gone up (or been marked down less.
Obviously the collapse in the British pesata post-Brexit vote should mean higher prices, but effects seem to be a bit faster than I was expecting. Or should I blame it on the Chain Reaction Wiggle merger! And what does this mean for free haribo? Or maybe hiking prices so they can cut them for Christmas?
Anyone else noticed price inflation or am I imagining things?
Obviously the collapse in the British pesata post-Brexit vote should mean higher prices, but effects seem to be a bit faster than I was expecting. Or should I blame it on the Chain Reaction Wiggle merger! And what does this mean for free haribo? Or maybe hiking prices so they can cut them for Christmas?
Anyone else noticed price inflation or am I imagining things?
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My local fishing tackle shop owner warned us that most of the major tackle companies were looking to put up their prices by around 10% "imminently", as a direct consequence of Brexit. To use his words "It's just a ****in' excuse."
It doesn't really matter what the hobby/sport is, they know the majority will continue to pay the prices no matter what, as to most of us a hobby helps us temporarily escape the rigours of real life, and we are very reluctant to give them up.
Well Wiggle/CRC are currently refusing to accept supplier price increases, so their prices should be no different to usual (for the time being anyway).
Personally I haven't noticed any differences, online prices are always all over the place anyway.
If I were running a shop I would probably look at ways of making cuts now before waiting for the inevitable price hike so as to ease the blow when it does hit. In this case it just looks like shops are making sure they are covering cost price of items and making sure they are not selling at too big a loss. Especially on items which are not sale items. The effect of the weaker pound and the inflation rate will take a few months to trickle down through suppliers and exports before they are seen in the shops themselves.
What do you mean, not cycling related. Even Team Sky has fishing supply manufacturer as one of main sponsors.
Glad I bought mine in Nov '15 at 1.4 Euros to the pound. Saved over a grand on uk price...
Glad I bought mine in 2002
Wish I'd paid the full amount back then instead of just the deposit!
The difference between Chorus and Record when I build it I guess!
Not even Tesco could get away with that - Wiggle are not as big as Tesco..
You missed the word "racist" out. I thought that was compulsory?
Having said that, he does own his own business, so surely he can't be a Brexiter?
Take the brakes: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shim ... prod135839
Earlier in the year they had an RRP of £99.99 and sale price of £64.99 and now they have an RRP of £119.99 and sale price of £74.99.
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Just because someone voted differently to you, does not make them wrong. They voted for their own reasons, not to support your point of view. And labeling anyone that voted for Brexit as racist, xenophobic, a little Englander, stupid etc, is the view of an idiot. Some highly influential and informed minds, including from the world of finance, voted out. :roll:
Beyond that, anyone who voted out because they believed the lies of the Brexit mob probably does deserve to be called an idiot...
No probably about it! Certainly they do
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As Euro prices have become 10 - 15% more expensive for Brits, I expect Cornwall is gonna be rammed next year with 'staycationers'.
Wiggle et al, look cheap now though if you're paid in Euros!
The ones that don't use metal, oil, any other raw materials or have employees?
Absolute hogwash. You need to get your bigoted head out of your backside. https://youtu.be/HgM1u9JJKWA Tree hugging cyclists; I s h i t 'em.
So who wins in a competition of who's made the most stupid decision, America or Britain?
electing a liar, bigot and self-confessed sex offender generates emotion and concern, but he's limited in what he can really do
more significant is the republican's increased control of both houses, irrespective of what the groper in chief says, he's still got to get legislation passed, he can use executive orders etc., but the courts should kill anything too swivel-eyed
once people are over the shock, it'll be four years of business as usual, the republicans aren't going to let trump damage anything they care about - look how successfully they've blocked obama
whereas brexit is an unknown, there's been a vote, the uk has lost influence and been weakened, but no one knows what happens next, years of uncertainty remain
it's what he said he wouldn't do that worries me, i.e. not intervene if a NATO member state were attacked.
IMO this would be the perfect moment for Putin to invade Estonia, Lithuania, etc. In all the confusion, who is really going to stop him? Not the US.
And then from there, Poland is up for grabs, etc. etc...WW3 anyone?