Uk £3.20 = 17.09 euro

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 09:26

Yes you have it right...



I spotted a product in Debenhams on Ledra street yesterday after seeing it in the daily mail uk price £3.20 peeled label back on product in store £3.20 price coverd with label for cyprus 17.09 WHAT THE ECK is going on !!

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 09:45

Expensive thongs ehhh, nige.

dozza67


Joined: 11/07/2008
Posts: 607

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 11:15

Greedy so and so's

Maddie



Joined: 16/11/2008
Posts: 147

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 11:24

I got caught out in M&S last week mistaking the £ sign as UK £ - it is not UK £ it is Cypriot pound - basically I paid twice as much as I would have done in the UK

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 14:18

in both debenhams and m&s here products are more expensive than if you purchased the same thing in the uk.



last year i purchased a designer top in debenhams(uk) for a special occasion we had coming up.

when i got home i saw the label said it was made in turkey.(for pennies probably!)



i did also see the same top in debenhams in south cyprus and it did make me smile.

made in turkey!

Maddie



Joined: 16/11/2008
Posts: 147

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 14:32

Think I will save my pennies until I visit UK for retail therapy trip. Till then I will be wearing same clothes everyday until they fall off my back.



At least fruit and vegetables are great value so I'll be healthy.

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 14:38

Now that you have easyjet in April, you can do short shopping trips to the UK

sparta


Joined: 24/10/2008
Posts: 226

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 15:05

i didnt know we had a debenhams in the north!! are you all shopping in the south and supporting the Greeks now...



Sparta is amused ....

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 16:12

Maddie



The currency in South Cyprus is the Euro, not the Cypriot pound which disappeared nearly a year ago

scampy



Joined: 15/01/2008
Posts: 982

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 16:18

Me and a friend of mine went over a week or so ago and we said it's really expensive over there now

They are gonna loose business pretty soon if they don't put the prices as they should

What they've done is change the money from Stg to Greek pound and then to Euro, whish is the wrong way to do it as it makes it really expensive



I won't be going again



Susie x

Maddie



Joined: 16/11/2008
Posts: 147

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 16:40

LovingCyprus - hmmm well I never the South in Euope and using Euros too, who would have thought it.



I was referring to the way that M&S label their items in store both £ and Euro. I know the Cypriot pound disappeared some time ago but they still use the £ symbol on price tags hence the error.

ROBIN HOOD


Joined: 26/05/2008
Posts: 238

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 17:49

The way things are going Britain will have the Euro in all but name.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 17:53

Britain won't be able to afford the Euro soon

sylvie


Joined: 12/03/2008
Posts: 1081

Message Posted:
17/12/2008 20:53

no, they kee the CY£ for a few year like we have done in france, so people can use to the euro with the time and then they only keep euro -

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 00:52

Message 10 Scampy,



I was in Belfast yesterday, The prices are Euro for £-sterling. The place was mobbed by Euro-ites. ( From the South ) I say shop now 'cos next week the Euro wil overtake the £.

scampy



Joined: 15/01/2008
Posts: 982

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 10:21

Ballyboffin



Are you missing the point



In the south they are charging 3 times as much as the items should be in Stg



In Ireland it is only changed from Stg to Euro

Susie x

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 12:33

Lovingcyprus

I was surorised when visiting friends in Pathos in October to see many shops showing both Cyp£ and euros. All the restaurants had both and the special lunch prices were all geared to the Cyp£ and not the euro.

Cruella


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 63

Message Posted:
18/12/2008 16:31

I have just come back from Cyprus and at the moment the UK shops are full of bargins. It might be cheaper for all us expats to fly back to the UK and shop till we drop, its will be a hell of a lot cheaper better quality and might make big difference to the Greek and the Turkish economy and it will serve the greedy bs right.