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Old 6th March 2011, 07:48 AM
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"When I buy wine, I pay 15 euro (seriously!) for a bottle of Jacob's Creek plonk that costs 4 euro in the Netherlands, including transport from Australia."

The problem is not due to huge mark-ups but from the huge import duty on alcoholic beverages from abroad. You can find a limited selection of Thai wines for much less.
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Old 6th March 2011, 10:18 AM
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donatella-t seems to be from Holland, they want everything for free, donīt mind him.
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Old 6th March 2011, 01:48 PM
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Oh! I thought he was Scottish!
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Old 6th March 2011, 02:20 PM
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"When I buy wine, I pay 15 euro (seriously!) for a bottle of Jacob's Creek plonk that costs 4 euro in the Netherlands, including transport from Australia."

The problem is not due to huge mark-ups but from the huge import duty on alcoholic beverages from abroad. You can find a limited selection of Thai wines for much less.
The import duties on wine are approx 400% of the CIF (landed) value. (In Holland there's zero excise on EU wines and just a small CCT impost on imported wines). Bizarrely in Thailand there are virtually no taxes on spirits so you have the ridiculous situation that a bottle of Jacobs Creek (12% Alc) is more expensive than a bottle of 100 Pipers (40%Alc). Blame the local beer and spirit moguls for that.
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Old 6th March 2011, 06:42 PM
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As long as the three pillars of Thai society are "Nation, Religion, he whose name shall not be mentioned" instead of "Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law", Thailand is a third rate banana kingdom. Those corrupting pillars make it easy to be sleazy here, but not very good value for money.
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Old 6th March 2011, 06:50 PM
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Thailand is a third rate banana kingdom.
Holland is a third rate banana Queendom.
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Old 6th March 2011, 11:38 PM
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As long as the three pillars of Thai society are "Nation, Religion, King" instead of "Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law", Thailand is a third rate banana kingdom. Those corrupting pillars make it easy to be sleazy here, but not very good value for money.


-- Being not unaware of others' prying eyes, the long arms of those organs of State that monitor the i'net. etc. etc. and interpretations that some may place on what others regard as FREE SPEECH - the USofA. First Amendment - possibly it might be preferable for the a/m. posting to be DELETED?
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Old 7th March 2011, 12:14 AM
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Hmm, it's not a holiday destination for me. I've lived here for the last decade or two. Oh, and I edited my post. It no longer mentions he whose name shall not be mentioned.
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Old 7th March 2011, 12:37 AM
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... . Oh, and I edited my post. It no longer mentions he whose name shall not be mentioned.


-- I doubt if even an indirect mention, such as you've posted, would be enough to safeguard either this web-site or you if certain auth'ys. were determined enough to make an example 'pour encourager les autres.'
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Old 7th March 2011, 04:27 AM
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Not to worry, I always use a VPN.

Anyways, the only point I wanted to make was that I feel Thailand is no longer very good value for money, all in all.
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