High Street Prices

[Hodders]

Everybody expects the high street shops to be more expensive than buying online but today was mad.

I wanted to buy a 4pin to 6pin firewire cable for my new camcorder and went to a coupld of shops, both wanted £19.99 (hmmm a coincidence or what). Exactly the same cable (make model, length etc) is available online for £4.50 inc P&P.

Now if the shops had wanted £9.99 I would have understood (rates, staff, high street rental costs etc etc) but over 4 times the price is daylight robbery.

So what is the worst example you can find... Must be the same make/brand and include P&P. Obviously no mention of competitors....

 

[Hodders]

The original post was asking for examples of differences - just to see if we could find the most difference.

I remember for a time a very large online computer retailer had a shop counter in Bracknell. I lived in Guildford at the time and would often use the 'price match promise' offered by the large PC store in Guildford. They would always say 'but they are an online retailer', to which I would show them the bit about the shop counter, to which they would then mutter about "this time only".

Got a harddisk matched down from £120 to £75 once