From: Rocket Ron on
Hi I am going to the Canaries in 3 weeks time and to save me driving to the
airport and parking my car a friend has offered to take me and collect me
from the airport for 1kilo of tobacco. So it will cost me �20 for petrol
and �50 approx for parking say �70 in total if I take my car. So will 1kilo
of Golden Virginia cost more or less than �70 or even 100 euros in the
Canaries.

And for all these anti smokers out there, I don't smoke but my friend does
and if he wants to smoke that is his perogative and I will have to suffer
his smoking when he takes me to the airport.

So please do not post any replies about the dangers or otherwise about
smoking as I could not care less.
Ron


From: contrex on
On 12 Oct, 00:54, "Rocket Ron" <ronc...(a)bleuyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> So will 1kilo of Golden Virginia cost more or less than £70 or even 100 euros in the
> Canaries.

It'll cost you about 60 UK pounds. In Las Palmas, at the end of August
2007, 500g of Golden Virginia (10 x 50g) cost me 43 euros.

From: contrex on
On 12 Oct, 07:42, contrex <mike.j.har...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 Oct, 00:54, "Rocket Ron" <ronc...(a)bleuyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > So will 1kilo of Golden Virginia cost more or less than £70 or even 100 euros in the
> > Canaries.
>
> It'll cost you about 60 UK pounds. In Las Palmas, at the end of August
> 2007, 500g of Golden Virginia (10 x 50g) cost me 43 euros.

Mind you, I just thought... your mate is a jammy sod - he spends
perhaps 40 quid on petrol to take you there in his smoky car and
collect you again, and gets tobacco worth 240 UK pounds for his
trouble. He saves 200 quid. Or makes it if he flogs it in pubs. (or
outside these days!) In effect you're getting a tenner for buying it
and transporting it across Europe. No wonder he's being so helpful!
I'd tell him to make a fairer split or if not to get stuffed and I'd
take my own motor to the airport.









From: contrex on
I got it wrong about the petrol... £20 not £40. So he'll get tobacco
worth £240 for an outlay of £20 and you'll save a tenner, tops. Even
if he sells the tobacco at half price he'll make £100.



From: Rocket Ron on

"contrex" <mike.j.harvey(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1192176410.223898.83020(a)i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
I got it wrong about the petrol... �20 not �40. So he'll get tobacco
worth �240 for an outlay of �20 and you'll save a tenner, tops. Even
if he sells the tobacco at half price he'll make �100.

Hi the flight is at 7 in the morning so he will have to pick me up at 3:30
so I think it is worth it. I would have brought him the tobacco back anyway
and sold it to him for �5 for 50gms. OK he makes �80 for 2 150 mile round
trips and I can have a drink on the plane coming back.
Ron