Coffee Beans
 

I love coffee! We just bought a new bean to cup machine to take to Spain with us and were just talking about how much we spend on coffee. Tend to have 3 cups a day and we use a 250ish gm bag of beans in less than a week. A bag over here can be £2.50 - £4.00

How much is it in Spain (Especially N Costa Blanca) and does anyone know of anywhere where you can bulk purchase (enough for a month at a time)

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It will be at least half price here from any supermarket, but I dont know about bulk buying.
You should of got your machine here, I bet they are also a lot cheaper.

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I was going to .... but I'm an impluse buyer!

In Whittards it was £399, on ebay it was £250 (and probably in Spain it would have been half of that)

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In my experience, white and electrical goods are no cheaper in spain and sometimes more expensive.

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Yes, we bought our washing machine in the UK and transported it, but we bought our fridge / freezer in Spain .... the prices were about the same in Spain as UK. TV's also I noticed are much of a muchness.

Of course the advantage of buying in spain is at least you have the warranty there

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Can you buy a dvd player for 35€ ?
Or 42 inch plasma tv for 1140€ ?

Coffee machines vary from 40 to 400€ sort of mini to rolls royce ;)

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Most manufactures offer European wide guarantees these days. But purchasing in Spain means you don’t have to change the plug!

Ian & Irene

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Get an adapter from the 100 pesata shop ;)

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Coffee is quite cheap here but Arabica beans which are the best are hard to find. I did find them at the a small store I pay 5 eruos.

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As Mitzy has bought a rolls royce of a coffee machine, I guess that's about right then.

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I hate to be cynical but don't pay cash for items needing a warranty. I bought white goods where they took all my details, NIE the lot, and I paid cash - so theoretically I should have been on the system. When I returned about a month later, I had to go through the same process as I didn't exist on the system. That's not to say I wouldn't get warranty back up but it did make me wonder??

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I generally only buy on credit card as you get that extra bit of protection.

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:D :D He`s right about the coffee, I`ve only had one bad cup and that was in an English bar :eek: I am sure they made it out of Camp liquid, sort of gravy and chicory mix.
Most of the Spanish bars make excellent coffee, 1€ a cup.

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Next question

Where can I but a decent coffee machine and I do mean the good ones that do everything, I am sure jdr might have the answer here for me

pwwm

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Some advice .... be very careful of what you buy and make sure you get a decent 2 year warranty on it. Steer clear of the digital machines if you are going for the bean to cup machines. I've read numerous reviews of machines leaking after about 6 months.
The one I bought was about the most reliable from what I could tell.

Try ebay for machines ... you get them a lot cheaper on there (saved £150) but again steer clear of these catalogue return companies that are operating on there. They only give a limited 6 month guarantee.