coffeeaddict

well a wallmout Daikin 7kw bnib

Wessa

Pretty much no... Ive been here a few weeks now and suprised at how much stuff is here.. Depends on if you can suffer the prices and the lack of choice.

Saying that, i was in a store (Harvey Norman) or Hardly normal as someone called it..last weekend and the electrical stuff wasnt far off our prices, although they was on offer.. A friend bought a 50" Panasonic Plasma hdmi tv for about 500gbp. But then it would help if your everyday stuff was cheaper eh..

janeyk

Yes I did I orderd some shoes! some bigger than a letter and yes they were redirected came quicker than an amazon parcel, original price 67gbp reduced to 27GBP before I left bough one pair reduced to 12GBP the following week was fizzing tried to get sent direct with P & P from company was going to come to 60GBP so sent via redirection in all 12GBP well worth redirection

whitesand

This is a good question.

Clothes (lots, everything except fleeces)

Shoes (lots, they cost the earth here)

Books (bring everthing you like to read - books are one of the biggest rip-offs here)

Cosmetics, make-up and everything you would buy in Superdrug. Bring enough for a year, so it eases you in.

Kitchen goods like cutlery, serving dishes, crockery. You can buy good white crockery here, but like everything else, it costs much, much more here.

FInally, as a luxury, bring a selecton of good UK newspapers as it will be a while before you read anything as good again.

keyholekate

Basically everything is cheaper in the UK. NZ is expensive. You don't come to NZ for the shopping! I would bring:

Quality towels - a spare set (NZ quality is dreadful - they fray)
Quality bed-linen (the type that doesn't bobble)
M&S knickers to last you till you go home - some packs to keep and open over the time until you will next be able to get to M&S (although you can buy from them on-line)
Bras (these are astronomical)
Books, if you like reading, and plenty of children's books as these are pricey.

Sound negative? I'm not. I love NZ and would not return to the UK for anything. You can get everything here (I haven't found shoes a problem at all, by the way) but you have to pay a high price for quality. Chinese tat in abundance.

Rachelb82

Hello, Contraception costs money omg do they want ppl to have children, i'm on the injection do you know the costs? If too much may try and get a years pill prescription before i come out.

As for shipping over hair and makeup products do you know if they will charge me for brining say a box of shampoo and conditioners? Moisturisers etc etc, also food stuff

hazeandsteve

I'd highly recommend bringing an electric cold water feed power shower, and wiring/plumbing it in when you get into your own house.
Why? Check this...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Building-re...-373843128.htm

....and as for contraception, Haze is on a subsidised pill, costs $3 for a six month supply.
Need residency and registration with a surgery to get the subsidy, but we find the prescriptions here to be fine.

sirplug

I miss my power shower.......... but not enough to pay $780 for another one

sirplug

Depends what you pay for it. I'd never heard of Daikin, until now. You will have to pay to install it and several firms do an all in price, with a pump. Here's a link for some prices..http://pricespy.co.nz/category.php?k=1046

baileyduval

New Zealand is a ,descent place to visit and explore. Though it can be expensive at times but when compared to UK all the prices seem cheaper a lot here rather than in UK.

Stormer999

Surely NZ just has to be more expensive than the UK on all commodities due to the market size 65 million set against 4 million customers. Apart from the transport costs per item the demand will be low enough to drive away competion. In a 10 mile radius from my house there must be well in excess of 50 supermarkets for food alone not counting large stores of slightly lesser names.

coffeeaddict

Daikin i would say are the market leaders in Air con (uk at least), really suprised you havnt heard of them
I will fit it myself as this is my trade assuming this EWRB thingy lets me

Am Loolah

Blimey, it would never have occurred to me to bring things like a heat pump or a power shower!

We bought pretty much all our white goods and furniture. That that we didn't need we sold on Trade Me. We did stockpile cheap clothes for the kids from Asda and Tesco which lasted well.

Other than that the 40 foot container was full with all our other essentials.

I agree books are alarmingly expensive, but I use the library here and also share books with friends a lot.

I don't struggle with shoes TBH?

I think it all depends on how much room you have left over in your container. If you have room then obviously fill it!!!

Bo-Jangles

That old chestnut about supply and demand and distances travelled simply doesn't wash, especially when often we're talking about local produce being more expensive than imported.

The amount we're expected to pay has a lot to do with the level of local competition and we don't have much of that in evidence, thus top dollar is what we get charged. I live in a city of over 1 million people for heavens sake, with the demands of any other similar sized city anywhere else in the world, I can count probably 20 plus supermarkets in a 12 km radius from my house, the problem is that they all belong to just two companies.

Mandarins are in season just now and we usually have two choices in the shop: Aussie Mandarins or NZ Mandarins. Who would even know the difference if they didn't have the blasted stickers on? Not even the girls at the supermarket checkouts, you have to watch them!!

Despite the higher Aussie wages and distances travelled, for some reason the NZ ones are deemed more worthy and no doubt thought to be a superior product to anything that Aussie can produce because the NZ mandarins are $1 per kilo more than Aussie ones.


The price of milk saga continues, with weekly calls from various consumer groups wanting investigations into the ever increasing prices. Consumer.co.nz published yet another article today that quotes:

I've been getting 2.0 Litres of Budget label (semi-skimmed) from Pak N Save for $3.59

A quick look at Tescos website and without studying too much I find where the big kicker comes, because we simply do not get these marvellous offers: Tesco Semi Skimmed Milk 4 Pints (2.27L) £1.25 or any 3 FOR £3.00 (5.5p / 4.4p /100ml) Of course not missing the less obvious trick, that we're getting a straight 2 litres versus the 2.27 litres you get in the UK.

whitesand

I totally agree with the above. Prices are high here because there is no competition. So-called bargains are only when prices are reduced to what they should be. Take cafes, for an example. Coffee is standarised at £3.80 plus, and you cannot readily get anything cheaper. Lunches all seem to have an agreed price of $9.50 per plate. Where do you see consistently low prices? Okay, Pak'Save are cheaper but they also know kow to increase prices.

It's quite a regimented, conformist society here, and not so laid-back as it seems. And, you can bet if it is NZ made it will be much more expensive and perhaps not so great quality. Under those conditions stores like Ikea, Target and cheap supermarkets will never come here.