{"id":187,"date":"2006-08-10T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T04:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2006-08-10T08:34:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T04:34:45","slug":"rip-off-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/187\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip-Off Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I bought this <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.fujitsu-siemens-shop.co.uk\/catalogue\/catProductForm.asp?mscssid=%7B886E17FE-E1A1-43CC-9555-CB9A855458F8%7D&#038;referer=\/cmcPage.asp&#038;idProduct=1054160&#038;flNoRedirect=1&#038;ttKeyword=3438\" target=\"_blank\">Fujitsu-Siemens laptop<\/a>, identical except mine has a 200Gb hard drive capacity instead of the 120Gb on the one advertised.<\/p>\n<p>Had I bought it in the UK, as the advert shows, I would have paid \u00a31209 including the VAT.\u00a0 As I bought it in Dubai, I paid \u00a3670.\u00a0 That is a saving of \u00a3539, or 45%.\u00a0 Yes, I am sure you could get it cheaper than \u00a31209 in the UK by not buying direct from Fujitsu-Siemens, but even so the consumers in the UK are being shafted royally.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody asks you why\u00a0some of us\u00a0prefer to live in a 50 degree desert or minus 40 tundra than stay at home,\u00a0be sure to\u00a0direct them to this post.\u00a0 Rip-off Britain is still alive and well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I bought this Fujitsu-Siemens laptop, identical except mine has a 200Gb hard drive capacity instead of the 120Gb on the one advertised. Had I bought it in the UK, as the advert shows, I would have paid \u00a31209 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/187\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}