Touratech....Rip off Britain

[howdoo]

There are some Touratech 1200GS bar raisers on eBay at the moment, with the highest bid at £5.
This inspired me to see how much they are from Touratech themselves.
UK website....£31.40
German web....38 Euros, ie.£26.
None of these prices include shipping.

Discuss.

 

[John Armstrong]

For a real laugh, have a look how much you'd pay if you got them from the TT ebay website

And yes, they only deliver to Germany

 

[MikeP]

Rip-Off Britain.

 

[Gilbert]

We got a similar situation in Sweden, but not with such enormous difference in price compared to Germany as your UK dealership have created. For those of you that are interested in what the European Community says about cases like this please read article 81 and 82 in the following document: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/treaties/dat/EC_consol.pdf
Guidelines relating to active and passive sales can be found here: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000Y1013(01):en:HTML I find especially paragraphs 50 and 51 interesting from a Touratech perspective.

 

[redcastle]

please read article 81 and 82 in the following document

Thanks for the info but I'd rather pay the extra fiver than read that eurobabble.

Im sures theres import duty and vat and anything else they can get away with .

 

[Gilbert]

Thanks for the info but I'd rather pay the extra fiver than read that eurobabble.

Oh, I am very sorry if the reading consisted of too many words for you. Of course i should have mentioned that in the original post, but perhaps I can redeem myself by doing it now: Please be warned! There are many words in the documents i linked to above.

 

[brassmonkey001]

That's better. Some of us come on here to avoid having to read. In fact there are a few members who cannot read at all.

 

[birdseye]

Oh, I am very sorry if the reading consisted of too many words for you. Of course i should have mentioned that in the original post, but perhaps I can redeem myself by doing it now: Please be warned! There are many words in the documents i linked to above.

Many words? There are 152 pages of Eurobabble in the first document alone?

Are you a member of UKIP or SWEKIP by any chance?

 

[Gilbert]

Many words? There are 152 pages of Eurobabble in the first document alone?

Are you a member of UKIP or SWEKIP by any chance?

Yes, it is 152 pages, and if you had read my initial post in this thread you would have saved a whole lot of reading since i have pointed out the "juicy stuff". After Googling to see what UKIP is I can say I am not a member of any such movement anywhere in the European Community, on the contrary I am pretty pleased with things as they are. Although I do think that the rules we all agreed to obide to when joining this European Community should be followed, and if you read the "juicy stuff" it should stand very clear that TT-customers in the UK as well as in Sweden are being bu**f**ked by TT in violation of said rules (yes, I am referring to the "Eurobabble" ).