My son, Chris, phoned Silverstone to book a rally experience as a pressie for his girlfriend and was quoted £155 "Yes, that was the price when I checked last week but with the reduction in VAT, what is the new price" "That is the price including VAT" "So, shouldn't you have dropped the VAT to 15%" "Err, it's £155 inc. VAT" " So you've raised the price, then" "Err,err no, it's £155"
OK so it's about £3.50 but that isn't the point? I bet Silverstone are not the only ones using the VAT reduction as a means of actually making money? THIS IS A RIP-OFF! Keep your wits about you, people!

JohnD

 

Maplin too.

 

I mentioned this on another thread obviously shops/suppliers will do what they can you have to remember this is rip off britain, any excuse to make money at the cost of the public.

 

pretty pointless and costly exercise...all your prices to recalculate. All your paperwork to reprint. Just daft.

I guess some people are just leaving their prices where they were. Just to save the hassle of re-working them all out.

 

exactly. you'll possibly find it's the small shops trying to pass on a saving to get punters through the door as they're the ones on the edge of going pop.
the big boys don't give a toss as they'll still make their big profits and the government sure don't give a **** as they make more tax money out of it

brilliant

 

ah,but the tarmac was laid and paid for when VAT was 17.5% so they need to keep to 17.5% until silverstone is paid off.

Fecking yawn !!!!!!!!

thats the current excuse retailers use to keep at 17.5% lately