So I was wondering if I should buy some new shoes, browsing through some stuff when I found these [http://www.zazzle.com/moonlit_night_shoes-167010484212355215] low-top converse-y type shoes, and thought they looked quite nice, if a little pricey.
If you take a gander to that page, you'll see that those shoes cost $65 in the US, equating to roughly £40.53, plus £11.84 to get it sent across the Atlantic, though there might well be a little bump to the price, but until further investigation, it will cost a grand total of $83.98 or £52.37 give or take.
I opened the same page [http://www.zazzle.co.uk/moonlit_night_shoes-167010484212355215] on the UK site to see if I could get cheaper P&P due to locations and whatnot, and discovered that the shoes cost exactly the same price - "Fair enough, same shoes same price right?"
No wait, that's 65.00 Pounds British Sterling. More than it would cost to buy the whole thing from the US store, even with any bump in their shipping charges. "Still," You might think. "I probably won't have to jump through any hoops to get it sent, and the shipping will be dirt cheap because it's just a bit more than a tenner anywhere in the US."
Nope. The price to have it sent to my front door here is the same number with a different symbol. £18.98, meaning if I want to get these shoes from the UK site, it will cost me more than £80.
This is a ridiculous price for a pair of shoes, and it got me thinking, can they really get away with this with no-one noticing? Has there really been an oversight on someone's part that lets something cost nearly twice as much just because one unit of currency is worth more than another?
Anyway, to stop this from being just a rant thread, and add some conversational value: Have you ever been hit by something so shocking that you wonder how such a dramatic mistake or act of dastardly behaviour has missed someone's eye?
If you take a gander to that page, you'll see that those shoes cost $65 in the US, equating to roughly £40.53, plus £11.84 to get it sent across the Atlantic, though there might well be a little bump to the price, but until further investigation, it will cost a grand total of $83.98 or £52.37 give or take.
I opened the same page [http://www.zazzle.co.uk/moonlit_night_shoes-167010484212355215] on the UK site to see if I could get cheaper P&P due to locations and whatnot, and discovered that the shoes cost exactly the same price - "Fair enough, same shoes same price right?"
No wait, that's 65.00 Pounds British Sterling. More than it would cost to buy the whole thing from the US store, even with any bump in their shipping charges. "Still," You might think. "I probably won't have to jump through any hoops to get it sent, and the shipping will be dirt cheap because it's just a bit more than a tenner anywhere in the US."
Nope. The price to have it sent to my front door here is the same number with a different symbol. £18.98, meaning if I want to get these shoes from the UK site, it will cost me more than £80.
This is a ridiculous price for a pair of shoes, and it got me thinking, can they really get away with this with no-one noticing? Has there really been an oversight on someone's part that lets something cost nearly twice as much just because one unit of currency is worth more than another?
Anyway, to stop this from being just a rant thread, and add some conversational value: Have you ever been hit by something so shocking that you wonder how such a dramatic mistake or act of dastardly behaviour has missed someone's eye?
