Talk:Rip-off Britain

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[edit] Suggestions for improvement

I think this article could easily be made much more encyclopedic.

The examples given read more isolated complaints than something normally found in WP - I suggest we remove those, and concentrate the article more on the phenomenon and less on the individual gripes. How do others feel about this? -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 21:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

This article is a joke. You can't just exchange a currency and say "this item is $400 in America but 300 pounds in UK so it's like we're paying $600 for it!" That's not how it works. It's how much the item costs within your OWN economy. You're not being ripped off by buying that John Grisham book that equates to $14 USD. Only if some dumb American decided to order the book from Amazon.co.uk is he paying that much. Likewise, if you can get an American seller to send you that book from America then you'd get a great deal but you're not being ripped off by purchasing it with your own currency within your own economy.

I think that saying In the UK we pay 79p for a song on iTunes and in the US they pay 99c, we pay $1.35, what a rip-off " is a load of old rubbish.

Get over it, Australia pays $1000 for a Playstation 3, New Zealand pays $1300. Suck it in, Britain's got a good deal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.230.7 (talk) 07:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

A lot of this article is non-NPOV and reads like a rant. Quotes of differences in price for an individual book do not substantiate the claim that one Amazon site is always more expensive than another (are there any external surveys that have been done which show that the UK site is more expensive?) and it's impossible to compare things like cellphones where US retailers typically lock in their customers to much longer contracts with higher monthly subscription fees than do companies in the UK.

Wikipedia is not a blog for consumer grievances and this material is inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. Most of the article probably just ought to be deleted, but I'll leave it to an editor with more experience than me to do so. Dr.croft (talk) 19:09, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I have flagged this up as, like the previous writer said, it reads like a personal view and needs to be made more enclyclopaedic. Oxfordmale (talk) 12:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC)