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...that when the price of oil drops (which it has), the local supermarkets go on about how they're having a "price war" (which they have) with each other and they're doing it off their own back as if to make out they're doing the consumer a por favor (which they are, but still)
$10 drop in the price of the black stuff also doesn't really equate to a 3ppl drop in the price of the clear stuff either.
Yes look at us, look at us, we're making petrol "cheap" but we're still bending you over the pump and giving you a oil induced shafting, more so than before, but we'll make out that we're doing you all a good deed by cutting our profits, whilst we're actually making more profit.
Gahhh.
On another note, the gold pricehas dipped too. So can I get less of those $$$$$$$CASH FOR GOOOOOLD$$$$$$ (subtitle: give us your lizzy duke that we can melt down and sell to the chinese for $$) ads on TV now please?
blue_peg_16v
16-12-09, 06:46 PM
lpg ftw lol
You won't be saying that when Cameroon sticks the duty back up to normal on it lol
blue_peg_16v
16-12-09, 06:58 PM
true
Red diesel i hear you say........
Not that i condone such illegal activities.....
I preach them.....
"We take your unwanted gold"
Oh great! I have ****loads of the stuff that I didn't actually want, and now they will do me a favour and take it! Whatever else was I going to do with this unwanted gold?
Not that i condone such illegal activities.....
I preach them.....
down here at the moment i think the police are trying to meet targets as there have been a funk load of them spot checks set up the the bottle and hose lol
There Coming To A Town Near You lol
down here at the moment i think the police are trying to meet targets as there have been a funk load of them spot checks set up the the bottle and hose lol
There Coming To A Town Near You lol
Meh, bothered lol
"We take your unwanted gold"
Oh great! I have ****loads of the stuff that I didn't actually want, and now they will do me a favour and take it! Whatever else was I going to do with this unwanted gold?
LMFAO lol
They need to talk to banks and governments etc, they must spend a fortune storing gold lol
As if! Brown sold all our gold reserves to the chinese a looong time ago in an effort to fund his all expenses paid shrimp and lobster lunches.
Why do you think they're now appealing to us to sell our gold for a couple quid?
mmm please let me sell it for 1/3rd its market rate... please please please
Supply and demand. Simple as.
staggy_gsi
16-12-09, 08:28 PM
my grandad got ripped off by one of those sh!tty cash for gold guys in town other week!! he said he would give him £80 for his unwanted stuff, and the plonker said 'ooh that sounds good'!
later on he was in a proper jewellers with my dad and just happened to ask them how much they would have given him. £180 they said.....
absolute rip off merchants! i know they have to make money like the rest of us but bloody £100???
MattBrown
16-12-09, 08:29 PM
Supply and demand. Simple as.
Exactly?
If you don't want to pay £107.9 for fuel, the walklol
Same with gold, if you don't want to sell it then don'tlol
Or am I back to being simple?
Also, fuel is 73% tax IIRC?
(Dad works at stanlow refinery)
so, if we kill gordon brown, then we will still be fooked, as the rag ass tories will get inlol
my grandad got ripped off by one of those sh!tty cash for gold guys in town other week!! he said he would give him £80 for his unwanted stuff, and the plonker said 'ooh that sounds good'!
later on he was in a proper jewellers with my dad and just happened to ask them how much they would have given him. £180 they said.....
absolute rip off merchants! i know they have to make money like the rest of us but bloody £100???
Not to be rude, but no.
They are a business, like any other. They buy the gold cheap and sell it on to make their profit. So remembering it like that, if they can sell something foe for £100, they wont buy it for £100 will they? They'll buy it as cheap as they can. Again its simple really.
Not to be rude, but no.
They are a business, like any other. They buy the gold cheap and sell it on to make their profit. So remembering it like that, if they can sell something foe for £100, they wont buy it for £100 will they? They'll buy it as cheap as they can. Again its simple really.
it is essentially appealing to lazy money grabbing muppets.
Clever/profiteering folks will get the best price via the right methods :)
and I thought when the words 'drop' and 'oil' came from RJ it would be a thread about his engine gaskets :p
it is essentially appealing to lazy money grabbing muppets.
Clever/profiteering folks will get the best price via the right methods :)
Yes 100% correct.
Exactly?
If you don't want to pay £107.9 for fuel, the walklol
Same with gold, if you don't want to sell it then don'tlol
Or am I back to being simple?
Also, fuel is 73% tax IIRC?
(Dad works at stanlow refinery)
so, if we kill gordon brown, then we will still be fooked, as the rag ass tories will get inlol
LOL Ok, come live in Somerset for a week without a car. Lets see you walk miles and miles everywhere shall we sunshine?
Granted you can buy more economical vehicles, but not everyone can afford to own the latest and greatest ecoboxes.
Fuel isn't 73% tax, its 53.19p duty, then 15% VAT. Of your 103.9ppl, thats about 13.5p. So 66.74p is VAT & Duty - thats more like 64%, which is actually lower than when the tories were in power. But still. lol
(incidentally, duty on LPG is going up faster - 2.85p raise - than that of petrol & heavy oil, but thats another rant)
staggy_gsi
16-12-09, 09:17 PM
Not to be rude, but no.
They are a business, like any other. They buy the gold cheap and sell it on to make their profit. So remembering it like that, if they can sell something foe for £100, they wont buy it for £100 will they? They'll buy it as cheap as they can. Again its simple really.
no they wont, and i wouldnt either but theres no need to lie and rip off pensioners. 'thats the best price you'll get round here' he said...
and if the other jewellers could offer 180quid and still be making profit, how much would he be making having only paid 80 for it?!?!
whos the money grabber, my 78 year old grandad who's skint or the bloody cash for gold guy???
no they wont, and i wouldnt either but theres no need to lie and rip off pensioners. 'thats the best price you'll get round here' he said...
and if the other jewellers could offer 180quid and still be making profit, how much would he be making having only paid 80 for it?!?!
whos the money grabber, my 78 year old grandad who's skint or the bloody cash for gold guy???
tbh He is... They just took advantage of that fact.
Harsh words but truth.
General concensus of this thread seams to be...
Dont sell your gold to strangers in the street
Kill Gordon Brown
Use red diesel
Kill Gordon Brown
Tax is a con
Use red diesel
staggy_gsi
16-12-09, 09:24 PM
maybe so, but imo its still wrong to take advantage of an OAP, especially by lying to them etc.
anyhoo, slightly off topic now i feel....
Profit is all about taking advantage of people though.
As for red derv, sod that. The fuzz have taken up almost permanent residence at Yeovilton to dip tanks!
Meh, itll be reet.
One tank of red, one tank of normal etc etc change the fuel filter every few months as they go pink lol lol
Not that i know or owt FLOL lol lol
Profit is all about taking advantage of people though.
As for red derv, sod that. The fuzz have taken up almost permanent residence at Yeovilton to dip tanks!
and you'd be amazed how it is possible to get round the red diesel dippers....
false filler necks, double tanks, fuel filters with no drain... fuel bowls that aren't actually in the line etc. i even know a bloke who uses heating oil in a perkins powered range rover. its the same colour as derv.
blue_peg_16v
16-12-09, 10:26 PM
lpg will still be cheap for a few years while i run the vectra till it dies again lol
Red diesel i hear you say........ Even that's shot up from when I was using it. veg oil too. :(
Nothing like a 5g drum full of red and a few litres of chip fat. lol Filling up with oil in the supermarket carpark for the big lols.
I thought LPG duty was fixed until (not sure when)? If they do stick up the prices at the petrol stations, people will just acquire it from places that sell if for heating purposes IMO.
Unlike good ole gas oil it can't be traced either.
blue_peg_16v
16-12-09, 10:28 PM
have done that in the past but veg oil is about £1 a litter now so no point
Yeah, not much point. Can get it for about 88p/l if you buy catering drums from Cosco. I don't have the need any more though.
blue_peg_16v
16-12-09, 10:52 PM
that makes it more viable but used to be 40 odd p a liter
Yep. Was awesome when it was that much. Cherry for 36p/l too iirc.
no they wont, and i wouldnt either but theres no need to lie and rip off pensioners. 'thats the best price you'll get round here' he said...
and if the other jewellers could offer 180quid and still be making profit, how much would he be making having only paid 80 for it?!?!
whos the money grabber, my 78 year old grandad who's skint or the bloody cash for gold guy???
As they said, sorry dude but its true. These places make a huge profit cause people want a quick buck. It really is supply and demand.
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