From: Rocket Ron on 11 Oct 2007 19:54 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 12 Oct 2007 02:42 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 12 Oct 2007 02:53 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 12 Oct 2007 04:06 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 12 Oct 2007 04:30 "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
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