Topic: Well, what a sad day!

[Clive]

Yes, main  dealers just don't know what to charge!   

[Tony]

Yes, main  dealers just don't know what to charge!  

Yes Clive they wanted £517.93

I have just had the phone call from my man, the car is ready, cost £300....pound notes obviously 

[Simon]

Coming from a Yorkshireman, I can believe you do still have pound notes! 

[davy51]

I admit it Im lazy I was sleeping
Its 6:46am here

MERRY Christmas everyone

[Rik]

Obviously the extra £200 is the cost of having all those people [who never get oil on their hands] who draw a wage at the dealership.

Plus the costs of being a main dealer.

[Tony]

Coming from a Yorkshireman, I can believe you do still have pound notes! 

I'm actually from Lancashire Simon, I got a government grant to come to Yorkshire. It was a government sponsored attempt to improve the humour gene pool in the county, alas it failed. 

Talking of pound notes, I used to be able to show a lady a good time out on a Ten Bob note. And that included a fish and chip supper on the way home. 

For your information, there were two Ten Bob notes to the Pound.

[Rik]

And nowadays, you'd get little change for one when you bought a Mars bar.

[Camstop]

And nowadays, you'd get little change for one when you bought a Mars bar.

But Mars bars ain't what they used to be 

[Rik]

This is true, Cammy.

[Simon]

For your information, there were two Ten Bob notes to the Pound.

I do actually remember them, vaguely.  Brown, weren't they?

Just out of curiosity, was there the same emotive outcry over decimalisation, that there is over losing the pound to the Euro?  Stupid name, by the way, Euro.

[Clive]

All I know is that we all got diddled by the shopkeepers of the day!  Since the £ is now worth the same as the Euro we may as well surrender and be part of the common currency.   

[Sandra]

Pre decimilisation Simon, things used to go up by half a penny at a time. That option was removed when we went decimal as the new half penny was 1/200th of a pound, the old one was 1/480th. So immediately any time anything went up it went up by over twice the increases that it used to do and of course everything was rounded up as soon as we went decimal, so I reckon it cost us around 10% more in the first year.
Then the new half penny didnt last long so that meant the minimum that prices could go up was doubled again to 1/100th of a pound, almost 5 x what things could have been increased by in pre decimalisation days.
When we do change over to the euro, no matter what rate it is to the pound, I think it will again immediately cost us another 10% in the first year, the same as going decimal cost us 

[topquark]

Yep, I remember Mars Bars being 6d (6 old pennies) equivalent value was be 2.5p after decimalisation.  Now they are smaller and around 30p (depending on where you get them).....but they ARE still chocolate  .... now if only the banks had invested in chocolate instead of gold 

[Simon]

How true! 

[captainhaddock]

Hi TQ, see Sandra's dragged you here as well