I am obsessed with Armani at the moment (although I think I’ve reached a point where there’s nothing else I really want on the counter for now. Do you get to that point too with some brands?)
I did see this gorgeous brush set – $100 on the Armani USA site.
It includes the mini blender brush, mini concealer brush, mini blush brush, mini eye shader brush, mini contour brush.
Price on my counter? £80.
My exchange rate calculator tells me it should be more like (even with the £ crappy exchange rate these days) £60.76 (to be exact).
Talk about mark up! No I don’t think I will be forcing someone to buy this now. I’ve noticed that Armani’s USA prices are a*little* bit too close to UK prices. There is something called an exchange rate, cha know!
What continental price mark ups get on your nerves?
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I hate that so much! Just because it’s imported does not mean you can jack the prices up that much!
Hi,
I get that with Canadian prices all the time, it drives me cray so I tend to just pick up those items when I’m in the states now
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December 5, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Ugh, that depresses me. I want my pounds to go further! *sobs*
I get really annoyed when I see drugstore items being marked up to the extreme where I live. L’oreal mascara for 16-18 euros, when I know that in the US it’s around $10, or in the UK for around 10 pounds. Even MAC or high end cosmetics have an insane mark-up. I refuse to shop at those prices. Thank God for internet shopping and Duty free!
MAC makeup – just change dollar to pound….not exchange conversion at all.