MACEFL

Seeing as i will soon be boarding a plane back to the other woman in my life,i have been teaching mother to use my smart phone and galaxy tab,as i am thinking of buying all new stuff at the airport and was just wondering if anyone has bought phones or tablets dutyfree recently ,ill be flying from gatport airwick.

Ash UK/US

I have never bought them at the airport but the last time I looked I didn't think duty free was really any cheaper (I am talking about the tab 2), my hubby got his cheaper on sale at Costco.

tonrob

In general I'd have thought that US retail was cheaper than UK duty free for many things.

GeoffM

Often the premium of existing inside an airport pushes the base price upwards so while it may be "duty free", the price had it had duty may be much more than the high street anyway. So knocking off the VAT or whatever is locally applicable only drops it back to around high street prices.

md95065

... and in some cases it can still be quite a bit more expensive.

On a recent trip back to Europe I bought a last minute gift in the duty free shop at SFO and ended up paying $25.99 for a bottle of Tequila that would have cost me $19.99 + 8.75% sales tax in my local liquor store ...

Jerseygirl

I never bother with duty free...far cheaper at my local liquor store.