London medical price rise

[kins 0]

I just booked my medical in London and they told me that the price goes up to £200 on 1st May 2007. The cancellation fee is now £80....

[Amby 490]

OUCH! It was already too much!!!!

[homesick_american 1]

Blame Gordon Brown for the 3.1% inflation!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

#######. Unless something totally unbelievable happens Bruce's will be after that date. Yet another case of Rip-Off Britain???

[flutter95 4]

I thought the cancellation fee wast already 80....well it was in october!

[homesick_american 1]

#######. Unless something totally unbelievable happens Bruce's will be after that date. Yet another case of Rip-Off Britain???

Well, think about it this way; they're the ones who get to do the medicals for US visas and they're the only ones. You can't choose your own. There MUST be some kick-backery going on there.

But yes, this country is a complete and utter ripoff. I can't believe how people here are so ripped off, it's outrageous. For example, there's a lens I'd like for my camera...even taking into account the fact that the US price does not include sales tax, I'd save 100 pounds by buying it in America. I can't have it shipped to me here though; customs would pop me. It's a government-sponsored ripoff!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

#######. Unless something totally unbelievable happens Bruce's will be after that date. Yet another case of Rip-Off Britain???

Well, think about it this way; they're the ones who get to do the medicals for US visas and they're the only ones. You can't choose your own. There MUST be some kick-backery going on there.

But yes, this country is a complete and utter ripoff. I can't believe how people here are so ripped off, it's outrageous. For example, there's a lens I'd like for my camera...even taking into account the fact that the US price does not include sales tax, I'd save 100 pounds by buying it in America. I can't have it shipped to me here though; customs would pop me. It's a government-sponsored ripoff!

I love how they have us over a barrel like this. No choice of supplier, and we're all desperate so we pay whatever they tell us to pay.

On the topic of customs, ages and ages ago my brother sent me a webcam as a present. This must have been 2001 at the latest, and although prices had gone down in the US they still cost a bomb in the UK. My brother paid about $25 for it, I recall. Anyway, the postman said he wouldn't hand it over to me until I paid customs on it -- a whopping £40 of duty for a $25 camera. Awesome. I told him to send it back to my brother, and I would pick it up when I went home on my next trip. There was no way in hell that camera was worth what Customs and Excise valued it at (I think around £125?). It was never actually sent back, though, and it mysteriously showed up about 3 months later with the "Duty Payable" sticker scribbled out. Very odd.

And I must add this tale: my friend got charged duty on a jumper her grandmother hand knit for her and sent over from New York! Must have been one hell of a gorgeous jumper...

[Mags 112]

Blame Gordon Brown for the 3.1% inflation!

I just blame Gordon Brown, even without the inflation!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Blame Gordon Brown for the 3.1% inflation!

I just blame Gordon Brown, even without the inflation!

I'll tell him -- I'm at No.11 tomorrow night (no kidding). I'll say, Mags sent me!

[homesick_american 1]

And I must add this tale: my friend got charged duty on a jumper her grandmother hand knit for her and sent over from New York! Must have been one hell of a gorgeous jumper...

I got that beat. They charged me hundreds of pounds in duties...on my OWN PERSONAL STUFF...when I moved over here. I got some of it refunded but not all of it. Wankers wankers wankers wankers.

[ChasUK 0]

It's in London, which is in England. Everyone hoists prices sky high for no good reason whenever they can.

Apart from that someone has to pay for the consultants 25% pay rise over the last 3 years.

[Alex+R 0]

200!??!?! I'm sorry, this doesn't even affect me and I'm shocked. Rey paid like 100 dollars for Brazil, which is a serious rip-off country.

[TimsDaisy 0]

200 POUNDS STERLING? That's like $400!

[Mags 112]

Blame Gordon Brown for the 3.1% inflation!

I just blame Gordon Brown, even without the inflation!

I'll tell him -- I'm at No.11 tomorrow night (no kidding). I'll say, Mags sent me!

Oh, that's nice of you, you sure you don't mind?

[homesick_american 1]

200 POUNDS STERLING? That's like $400!

Yep....when I say things are obscenely expensive here, I'm not kidding! :lol: :lol: