DVD Recorder £59.99 at Asda [CLOSED]

waster_2

Coldfinger wrote:

Actually, you are mistaken here. You have to look at the exchange rate mechanism. If you look carefully you will find that you can get UK£1 for US$1. That is why you could buy a British Car for the equivalent number of dollars. You just think you are getting ripped off but you aren't. A similar conversion factor applies when you try to buy an ice-cream in London, you think they took your eyes out but it is just a product on monetary conversion based on financial conversions, the gold price coupled with the complexity of macro- and micro-economics. This is a typical result for a government in mid-term.

Unfortunately for the americans, the conversion factor works against them and they get ripped off too. For example, we pay around 91p per litre of petrol but if you look at the conversion of US Gallons to UK gallons and litres to US gallons and then add the currency conversion factor then you find that they are having to pay as much as US$2.25* per US Gallon. Absolutely scandalous. Be proud to be Bwitish.

*Source: http://www.montanagasprices.com/

Can someone explain to me what this is all about? What the hell does “you will find that you can get UK£1 for US$1” mean? As far as I am aware the £ has never, even in the bad old days, ever reached parity with the dollar. From recollection the lowest the £ ever reached was about £ = $1.35 in about 1993/94!

If the exchange rate is currently say $1.75 to the £, then $2.25 per US gallon (16 fluid oz per pint, rather than 20 fluid oz per UK pint i.e. only four fifths an imperial gallon) is £1.28 per US gallon or £1.61 per Imperial (UK) gallon. £1.61 = 36p per litre. So at an average of 91p per litre in the UK we are paying over 250% more than our US cousins.

And car prices are the same if you convert $ to £. But you must remember that the car price quoted in the US must have state sales tax added to the displayed figure. Indeed, I can only recall petrol (gas) as being the only thing with tax included in the price displayed.

The bottom line is that generally we are ripped off in the UK compared to the price, variety and quality that you find for the equivalent in the US.

OVERTHEODDS

I just saw them at the Colchester store at the reduced price.

MSE_Jenny

Sadly this offer's now closed. Asda's press office has confirmed that the £59.99 deal was a weekend manager's special in its supercentres (22-23 Oct). It's now back up to £89.99. Boo.

NickA_3

A colleague of mine who lives in watford went into the store down there today and picked one up for me for £59.99 (I'm in Cheshire) so it seems that some stores are still selling at the reduced price although they are very few and far between now (I contacted pretty much most of the stores yesterday close to where I live in Cheshire and all were selling at the normal price again)
You just need to be lucky I guess...

Reepacheep

I have just phoned the Colchester Asda Overtheodds and they said they did not have them at the reduced price? I`m tempted to drive there nevertheless in case they are fobbing me off!!

Coldfinger

waster wrote:

Can someone explain to me what this is all about? What the hell does “you will find that you can get UK£1 for US$1” mean? As far as I am aware the £ has never, even in the bad old days, ever reached parity with the dollar. From recollection the lowest the £ ever reached was about £ = $1.35 in about 1993/94!

If the exchange rate is currently say $1.75 to the £, then $2.25 per US gallon (16 fluid oz per pint, rather than 20 fluid oz per UK pint i.e. only four fifths an imperial gallon) is £1.28 per US gallon or £1.61 per Imperial (UK) gallon. £1.61 = 36p per litre. So at an average of 91p per litre in the UK we are paying over 250% more than our US cousins.

And car prices are the same if you convert $ to £. But you must remember that the car price quoted in the US must have state sales tax added to the displayed figure. Indeed, I can only recall petrol (gas) as being the only thing with tax included in the price displayed.

The bottom line is that generally we are ripped off in the UK compared to the price, variety and quality that you find for the equivalent in the US.

(1) Irony - a statement or plot which has an implicit meaning intended by the speaker which differs from that which the speaker ostensibly asserts

(2) Waster - Someone who does a lot of maths because they didn't understand (1) above

:rolleyes:

Hellraiser_2

tin wrote:

I can confirm RGB out does work on the Cyberhome - there is no rgb in though as stated

Are you sure? There is an RGB option in the menu, but switching it does not engage RGB mode on any of the 3 TVs I've used it on. RGB works fine with everything else

Hellraiser..........>

allantaximan

On the phone today (10/11/05) to ASDA HQ, there are 21 in Shoebury and 25 in Tilbury Stores

mk-donald

Did anyone manage to make their ex-Asda £5x PYE PRV 645 multiregion or region free ?

Tried the Philips 610 hack but mine seems resolutely Region 2 only.