Exactly what the title says. Why? I don't understand? How can Nike, Adidas etc. justify the extra £10/20 or 30 pounds that us people in the U.k have to pay?

I mean take Nike Id for example, there selling id Nike Talaria III's (U.S) for $100 which is around £55 but for the U.k there £85. How come? Am I missing something here? Where has the extra £30 come from?

Also my local adidas here in the U.k are selling the new +50.6 Tunit comfort pack for £119 but a friend of mine in the U.S says he's seen them at his local sport shops for $170 around £99.

I don't understand where the extra price comes from?
Can someone enlighten me?

Its a phenomenon called "rip-off Britain". No seriously. SHould be some stuff on Google on it.

Here's how it breaks down. Typically, when a British store sells a product for £117.50:

* £17.50 is VAT
* £10 goes to the retail staff
* £6 goes to the retail land lord in rent
* £5 goes to the store as profit
* £79 goes to the manufacturer and distributor


Good article on it

As for NikeID, they are just reflecting the list price of boots in Uk stores on their website (either that or they are exploiting us ruthlesly, but no, a big global corporation would never do that to their loyal customers would they... )

haha
US rules
because british people appreciate the product
american people think soccer is gay, not willing to pay as much

Its the same with everything though - it started off with car prices.

They are expensive in other countries as well though - most notably Canada and Australia.

don't the shops has to pay to import the products? i guess they are putting the import tax on the consumer since the demand is inelastic(thought i would hit u with an economics term) for the products.

wait till you see prices in canada! its unbelievable! 300 canadian dollars for vapors!

In Malaysia even Vapor 2 can cost ya up to RM 1000

300aus here in the aus
i just got my predators for 280 aus
and wanted tunits ot paying 300 aus on top of what i payed already for my preds

the sad part about this comment, is that its true..no one here cares about boots..everyone at my school thinks im like crazy about soccer and everything...

Our school is ok with it because our town is HUGE in American Football, except the freshman team went 1-8-1 while our Freshman Soccer team went 12-3-2 so whenever they talk shit we just bring that up and they can't say nothing.

I love being a frosh.

I actually live in a not so big town and no one really cares about boots, i was talking to one of my teammates about boots and hes like Your shoe crazy!

Surely that can't be true because vapors are made in Italy and surely it would cost more to ship to the U.S than to the U.K with the U.K being closer to Italy.

300aus here in the aus
i just got my predators for 280 aus
and wanted tunits ot paying 300 aus on top of what i payed already for my preds

Try AU$350 for vap iiis and $320 for azt90iiis. I was wondering the same thing ages ago. The only thing i could think of was australian GST (10%) or british VAT (17.5%), or, yeah, the rip off the non-americans scheme. Big export profits are always good. The real kicker is that with adidas its not as bad. Ie in uk abs and vap iiis are both 120 while in oz abs are only $280 compared to vaps for $350.

yeah hard


bro wheres the cheapest place to get boots in aus

Well in sydney you can go try out the nike and adidas factory stores in Auburn i got my AZTiii and F50+ goal edition there for $180 for AZTiii and $150 for the F50

Yeah the actual Nike or Adidas Factory Outlets usually have a fair bit cheaper price than the ones in your local shop

Haha yeah the pulses here cost RM 600 & brand new TuniTs, cheapest are 750+

cuz im like a 10.5 they dont hve that size in the tunit or adidas f50+ do they??

Yeah when i went to america on holiday i got a pair of adidas aveiros for 13 pounds !!! how can they charge so little

i think adidas, nike etc want to promote 'soccer' in the us so sell boots cheap

i guess u have not taken microeconomics yet. inelastic demand means that the demand for the boots(in this case) will not change if the buyer pays the import tax. so in the uk the demand is inelastic. in the USA the demand is more elastic. the demand for the product would probably go down if the consumer had to pay the import tax.

erm 2 words for the uk. sports world!!!

i think u guys should go to Hong Kong (I used to live there) and have a look.
I'd say boots (stuffs) in Hong Kong are really cheap....

say... pair of Predator Absolutes FG for HKD980, that's USD125.64 GBP70 and around AUD170
same price for F50+..... and Tunits are selling for HKD1280...
Nikes are around HKD1000 as well.

Too bad they don't sell Puma boots in Hong Kong.....

Well, Here in Iceland, Abs and Vapors,

They cost 25000ISK which is 350 pounds!!

Yeah, boots are pretty high priced here too. Freakin Nike, that's why I don't like them. Meanwhile, they're obviously making huge profits since their ad campaign "Joga bonito" has already started here. There's still 2-3 months before the WC.
Adidas isn't as bad, but it depends on the stores, there's one store that specialises in soccer stuff, so the prices are lower (still high).

Where exactly is "here", mrfocus?

And flights from UK are only £500!