Would you be willing to pay more?

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I just watched a report on sky news which was complaining that the Olympic souvenir are being made in China.

The British people are generally very patriotic but how many of you would really be willing to pay 25 to 30% more for the same product (assume the quality is the same) if you knew it was made in the uk by British paid workers?
 
25 to 30%? No way.

If the quality is the same, I'll just choose the cheaper product.
 
It wouldn't cost 25-30% more to buy, things are priced according to the market so the price would either remain the same with the London Olympics having a smaller markup per unit, or they wouldn't be made at all because it wouldn't be viable.
 
scorza said:
It wouldn't cost 25-30% more to buy, things are priced according to the market so the price would either remain the same with the London Olympics having a smaller markup per unit, or they wouldn't be made at all because it wouldn't be viable.
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I Was referring to products in general not just Olympics merchandise. I don’t think it is unrealistic to expect say a laptop to be 25% more expensive if it was made locally as opposed to someone being paid 50 quid a month in china
 
Not sure about 30%, but I would be willing to pay more knowing that the product in question was made by someone in England, as it wold mean that employment is being kept here.
 
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Dr House said:
I Was referring to products in general not just Olympics merchandise. I don’t think it is unrealistic to expect say a laptop to be 25% more expensive if it was made locally as opposed to someone being paid 50 quid a month in china
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It's the same for everything - the market determines the price not the cost of production. Has the price of washing machines gone down in the UK since all the washing machine manufacturers moved production to China? No - all that's happened is that the washing machine manufacturers are making more profit.
 
I'd like to think I would pay more, but in reality I'd probably go for the cheaper option due to not exactly having a lot of spare money each month :(
 
No. Same as "pay 30% more as this chicken had a good life" - i could give a damn about its life and how many times it completed pokemon, i only care about how it tastes.
 
wordy said:
Not sure about 30%, but I would be willing to pay more knowing that the product in question was made by someone in England, as it wold mean that employment is being kept here.
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You're in such a tiny minority that your contribution would be utterly insignificant.
 
SMN said:
No. Same as "pay 30% more as this chicken had a good life" - i could give a damn about its life and how many times it completed pokemon, i only care about how it tastes.
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That's the whole point :rolleyes:, if it hasn't had a good life it will taste bad (have you ever tried eating chicken raised properly in a village compared to tesco value?). Do people even know what colour the free/organic chicken meat is supposed to be?? (hint: not all white).
 
Here's the thing though - could we get it for less than 30% more if it was made in England?

Probably not. I love how we bash the Chinese on one hand yet gratefully accept cheaper goods on the other. :p
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Here's the thing though - could we get it for less than 30% more if it was made in England?

Probably not. I love how we bash the Chinese on one hand yet gratefully accept cheaper goods on the other. :p
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Indeed. We've let the Chinese sneak up on us, and now we're stuck. All those years we spent laughing at all the cheap, plastic tat they made for us, but we still bought it. Now all of a sudden we're cross because everything is made over there, and we get up in arms about human rights over there, and so on. Well, we wanted cheap stuff, now we have to live with it.
 
kgi said:
That's the whole point :rolleyes:, if it hasn't had a good life it will taste bad (have you ever tried eating chicken raised properly in a village compared to tesco value?). Do people even know what colour the free/organic chicken meat is supposed to be?? (hint: not all white).
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I'm afraid that in blind taste tests (including one done on BBC's CountryFile) that the battery farmed chickens don't taste much different and in some cases people thought they tasted the best and thus were the organic ones.

If people are going to keep eating meat with the growing population it will be harder and harder to do this with free range.

Oh and I wouldn't pay more. Who cares where it comes from as long as the quality is OK and the price is right. It's a global economy.
 
The British are notoriously unpatriotic when it comes to British-made goods/services (compared to China, Japan or the US).

And I'm the same .. don't give a monkeys where it's made .. gimme the best deal :)



(My exceptions to the rule .. buying a Triumph motorbike, and buying one of these: www.3view.com)
 
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