prices of absolut vodka

• jonchao72

  23 Dec 10, 22:58

  why is there such a big difference in the prices of absolut between dfs and any other shop in singapore that sells it (e.g fairprice)

  i bought a bottle of absolut citron at dfs changi for 24.60. when i went to fairprice, it costs 82 bucks??!!

  why is there such a huge difference in price?

• FireIce

  23 Dec 10, 23:01

  DF stands for duty-free

• jonchao72

  23 Dec 10, 23:05

  duty free meaning no custom duties, but custom duties can be so much?

  82 - 24.60 = 57.40??

• ditzy

  23 Dec 10, 23:05

  How come a brand new honda civic in Australia costs only AUD$19999, when the same car found 2nd hand in singapore costs S$35000?

• TWE

  24 Dec 10, 01:57

    My goodness where have you been living for your whole life until now ? Don't be surpirse by the price of cigerettes oversea and duty free also . And also why does toyota/honda can't remember rave 4 cost only Canadian $35000 in canada and it cost SGD$75000 here ?

• ditzy

  24 Dec 10, 07:54

  Originally posted by jonchao72:

  duty free meaning no custom duties, but custom duties can be so much?

  82 - 24.60 = 57.40??

  If cars in singapore were sold at OMV prices, this city would be doomed.

• Veggie Bao

  24 Dec 10, 15:00

  This gives me some ideas.

  But that DFS shop....is it only for passengers, or anyone can enter ?

  (is the shop location after immigration checkpoint)

  Please tell me and thank you,

• airgrinder

  24 Dec 10, 15:10

  Originally posted by jonchao72:

  duty free meaning no custom duties, but custom duties can be so much?

  82 - 24.60 = 57.40??

  Duty-free means there is no tax on the alcohol. Meaning, the alcohol is sold is it is, no country tax on top of it.

  Fairprice, or any retail for that matter pays the tax for the alcohol when they purchase it from the alcohol distributor. Hence they will need to markup the price for a profit.

   

  Another heavily tax item in sg is tobacco.

• βέτά

  24 Dec 10, 15:23

   

  * Formulae for computation of duty payable on liquors:

  a) Formula
  Duty = Total quantity in litre x $70.00 x % of alcoholic strength

  b) Example : Importation of 100 litres of Port Wine with alcoholic strength of 19%
  Duty = 100 x $70.00 x 0.19 = $1,330.00

   

  Still have to add GST on top of this.

   

   

• airgrinder

  24 Dec 10, 15:30

  i love port.

• jonchao72

  24 Dec 10, 18:03

  Originally posted by airgrinder:

  Duty-free means there is no tax on the alcohol. Meaning, the alcohol is sold is it is, no country tax on top of it.

  Fairprice, or any retail for that matter pays the tax for the alcohol when they purchase it from the alcohol distributor. Hence they will need to markup the price for a profit.

   

  Another heavily tax item in sg is tobacco.

  ooo... thanks for the explanation.

  its amazing how the price increases more than three fold

• 0ut of P0int

  25 Dec 10, 14:41

  I am eating leftover turkey

• gunner77

  25 Dec 10, 15:25

  Originally posted by 0ut of P0int:

  I am eating leftover turkey