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Everyone in the UK, stop shopping...right this minute!!!!

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:24 pm
by rickyricardo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/bus ... 158897.stm

looks like i'm gonna have to revise my record budget again, soon. :roll:

Re: Everyone in the UK, stop shopping...right this minute!!!

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:32 pm
by seckle
RickyRicardo wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/bus ... 158897.stm

looks like i'm gonna have to revise my record budget again, soon. :roll:
serious! this is going to make me think twice about everything i buy. :(

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:34 pm
by forensix (mcr)
oh bollocks im being paid for something in $ looks like im gettin paid less

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:33 pm
by emcee child
time for all you mans to buy tickets over here for next summer... u know it's gonna be big.

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:50 pm
by nattyphysicist
Hmm, it's gone up CAD $0.20 since March. Oh well, I've been buying records all summer and fall. It's not like I'm going to stop buying UK records. That would make no sense at all. If it hits a super high, then we may have to work out a deal where we cut records over here and just import the masters. Let's have a Tempa - Toronto Office then!

Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:48 pm
by subframe
nattyphysicist wrote:Hmm, it's gone up CAD $0.20 since March. Oh well, I've been buying records all summer and fall. It's not like I'm going to stop buying UK records. That would make no sense at all. If it hits a super high, then we may have to work out a deal where we cut records over here and just import the masters. Let's have a Tempa - Toronto Office then!
Yes, obviously the UK pressing plants should outsource their operations to the US to save £££. I'll work as cheap labor, no problem

:D

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:17 am
by elgato
slightly off the main topic, i find it so crazy how people travel to new york to do xmas shopping! apparently its actually quite common. is it not just infuriatingly busy and hectic?! probably looks quite deep in the snow though

that is bad news for you guys like. but also very bad news for the massive, massive number of UK residents deep in credit :( (i think, i admittedly know nothing of finance...when they say the BofE plans to raise interest rates thatll have an effect on the public in the UK right?)

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:53 am
by Whistla
elgato wrote:i admittedly know nothing of finance...when they say the BofE plans to raise interest rates thatll have an effect on the public in the UK right?
yep it will mean mortgage repayments will go up for people on variable repayment plans, and also means that borrowing in general becomes more expensive

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:05 pm
by shonky
DJ Whistla wrote:
elgato wrote:i admittedly know nothing of finance...when they say the BofE plans to raise interest rates thatll have an effect on the public in the UK right?
yep it will mean mortgage repayments will go up for people on variable repayment plans, and also means that borrowing in general becomes more expensive
Very glad I've cleared all my debts - I've actually got everything I want at the moment, so got no particular need to borrow anything. Still got enough to buy a few tunes a month so all's well really. And only 3 family members left so Christmas is dirt cheap.

Sorry, is that just too smug :D