Australian Members - Part II - if you read the first post, you'll get what this is all about.

[Terminator]

Rolex prices went up 10% in the UK last week, did this happen in Australia too? I am considering getting my son's birth watch now, whilst I'm working in London but living in Switzerland, so as to get the VAT back. The Datejust II just increased from £4800 to £5250, could someone please tell me what the rrp is in Australia? Should come up automatically in the link below, which I can't get to change from the UK or Swiss price depending if I'm ah work or at home...

https://m.rolex.com/watches/datejust/m116300-0005.html

Cheers,

NJR

 

[fxh]



so i officially need glasses at the ripe age of 29. i've already ordered the frames i want online (dita and tom ford), and for prescription + lenses there is a specsavers and OPSM within 10min walk from my house. is there any noticeable difference between the two companies, or should i just go with the cheapest?

what city you in?

 

[md2010]



Rolex prices went up 10% in the UK last week, did this happen in Australia too? I am considering getting my son's birth watch now, whilst I'm working in London but living in Switzerland, so as to get the VAT back. The Datejust II just increased from £4800 to £5250, could someone please tell me what the rrp is in Australia? Should come up automatically in the link below, which I can't get to change from the UK or Swiss price depending if I'm ah work or at home...

https://m.rolex.com/watches/datejust/m116300-0005.html

Cheers,

NJR

Gbp tanked thus the price increases. For a little while UK had the cheapest rrp (minus VAT) on Rolex. Rrp on 29 October was
DJ ii $9050 , exp1 $8250 , ND Sub $9450.

 

[Terminator]

@md2010 Thanks mate, I thought it was because of the gbp tanking, which trust me I know all about and is causing me a world of pain at the moment (Zurich is expensive enough if you earn the Swiss franc and pay Swiss tax, let alone earn the ever-weakening gbp and pay UK tax and national insurance!). On that note, it looks like I will move back to Aus next year, with a bit more baggage than when I left c. 4 years ago!

I think there was also a Eurozone Rolex price increase at the start of the year, which didn't get passed onto the UK at the time.

Even with the new price increase, the DJ II cheaper in the U.K. than Switzerland (and Australia).

 

[md2010]



@md2010 Thanks mate, I thought it was because of the gbp tanking, which trust me I know all about and is causing me a world of pain at the moment (Zurich is expensive enough if you earn the Swiss franc and pay Swiss tax, let alone earn the ever-weakening gbp and pay UK tax and national insurance!). On that note, it looks like I will move back to Aus next year, with a bit more baggage than when I left c. 4 years ago!

I think there was also a Eurozone Rolex price increase at the start of the year, which didn't get passed onto the UK at the time.

Even with the new price increase, the DJ II cheaper in the U.K. than Switzerland (and Australia).

You could make some decent profit if you buy few Rolex'es on your way back to Aus. From what I gather there are long(er) waiting list for steel sports models Rolex in UK(Blnr/Sub/Daytona). Is there any truth to this ? Do Swiss Rolex ADs have new Daytona (steel) in stock usually ?

 

[Terminator]

@md2010 I will try to get into at least one AD in London this week - I'm on the way to the airport now actually - and there's a Mappin & Webb right near my office. I'll pass on what I can find out. From my visit to the Zurich store, I know there was a waiting list for the Daytona, I don't think there was one for the sub. There definitely wasn't one for the Explorer. I briefly toyed with the idea of putting my name down for a Daytona but the SA confirmed that I wouldn't be receiving one manufactured in 2016, and hence it wouldn't be a birth watch. It was also outside the budget for the time being if I'm honest.

I like your idea about purchasing and flipping some Rolex on the way back but I was trying to make a (bad) joke about returning to
Aus with a wife and child. Where the money would have been, if I was ballsy enough, would have been to buy a second hand car whilst I was living in the UK and import that!

 

[conqueror]



Have you tried on the frames and do you know if they'll fit you? 

I've ordered plenty of stuff online and I've been generally lucky with fit, but frames are one thing that I'd be very nervous about ordering online unless I'd been able to try them on first, simply because different frames suit different faces and you can't adjust the size of frames the way you can with clothing. If they're too big or too small, you're stuck with them. 

I know several people who have had dreadful experiences with OPSM optometrists but, having said that, they offer a money-back guarantee if your prescription and/or lenses are wrong. 

haha, i have a huge head and ******** so find it very difficult to find frames that fit. unfortunately lots of popular designers (moscot and oliver peoples being the main two) i simply can't wear, especially since smaller round frames are now in fashion. the dita frame i tried on before in japan, and the tom ford i took a semi-educated gamble on - thankfully it paid off!

based on the advice, perhaps i should try and go to an independent optometrist.

what city you in?

canberra.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]



haha, i have a huge head and ******** so find it very difficult to find frames that fit. unfortunately lots of popular designers (moscot and oliver peoples being the main two) i simply can't wear, especially since smaller round frames are now in fashion. the dita frame i tried on before in japan, and the tom ford i took a semi-educated gamble on - thankfully it paid off!

based on the advice, perhaps i should try and go to an independent optometrist.
canberra.

Eye Candy in Braddon or Vision City in Civic. I had Vision City put in some lenses for me last year into an Armani frame and they did a good job.

 

[Nolvadex]

This has been the most captivating election campaign in my lifetime. Probably the biggest underdog story in my life as well

 

[skeen7908]

Inchoate anger among the underclass

Smart enough to realise they are getting screwed by neoliberalism and globalism, not smart enough to articulate it

Need to reread their Marx

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

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[smeggett]

Inchoate anger among the underclass

Smart enough to realise they are getting screwed by neoliberalism and globalism, not smart enough to articulate it

Need to reread their Marx

This...

Although I don't agree with globalism screwing them over, given it's responsible for reducing poverty in both real and nominal terms. I'd put it down to government over-regulation which has screwed them over, hence the vote for the non-institutionalised candidate who's promised the 'drain the swamp' and expose all the apparent corruption going on.

 

[Journeyman]

This...

Although I don't agree with globalism screwing them over, given it's responsible for reducing poverty in both real and nominal terms. I'd put it down to government over-regulation which has screwed them over, hence the vote for the non-institutionalised candidate who's promised the 'drain the swamp' and expose all the apparent corruption going on.

Well, globalisation has reduced poverty in certain areas. As the expression goes, "a rising tide lifts all boats" and so globalisation has increased wealth around the world, including amongst many of the world's most disadvantaged people.

However, it's undeniable that economic changes over the past 40 or so years have resulted in a massive loss of relatively unskilled jobs in first-world countries as those jobs have moved overseas. Changes in machinery and other technology have meant massive losses in jobs in manufacturing, mining and agriculture and other industries. Sure, new jobs have been created, but those jobs are largely in hubs on the US coasts and are high-skilled, not low-skilled or semi-skilled jobs. There's a lot of anger and anguish felt by people who feel that the government doesn't care about them and that they've been left behind - while they see tech people getting richer and richer, they and their friends are getting poorer.

They're also angry at "big government", but that's mainly because they feel that it mainly works to enhance itself and those who move in the right circles.

 

[skeen7908]

How has globalisation improved the lot of workers in developed countries?

Maybe in developing countries

But they don't vote in US elections


Australia next as the power of capital runs rampant over labour (witness house prices)

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Really? The imbalance between ostentatious wealth and power in the world is impossible to address. Those that have it have no intention to give it up. As far as the 1% are concerned the 99% are there to service there needs.

The rich get richer while the poor are simply surplus to requirements.