iPad prices world wide.

Apple The New IPad   16GB USA €396 Au    €426 Uk.   €492 Irl.  €479 Ger. €479 Fr.   €489 These are the price of the new iPad in Junen2012 from Apple online store in each country. You cannot get one direct in India or Chinaw. Buying one in a different can give you small problems such as buying goods etc.

Discovery TV at it again.

You have to question programmes on Discovery channel. Are the real or not ? Operation Repo is just recreations of actual events but you would think they were real documentaries until you read the credits . Now they have a new one. Moonshiners is an American reality-television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the practice of individuals who produce moonshine, an alcoholic beverage that when made and sold without permits and taxes paid is illegal. The alcohol runs to about 180 proof. The series documents their practice, law-evading techniques and life. It looks real but it's not. No alcohol was made. Beware what your watching and don't be fooled.

Fake China

With each week the Irish customs catch fake Tobacco products and imitation products being smuggled into Ireland. This is going on in a bigger scale throughout Europe. Why don't the EU take a case against China under the World Trade Agreement. The Chineese could crack down on the production of these fake goods if they really tried. They are happy to keep this system going undermining the economies of Europe the EU is to slow in attacking this problem and Ireland to small to go against China on its Own.

Post prices ?

Is the cost of posting packets and parcels going to kill ecommerce in Ireland. It is so expensive to post anything in Ireland it is hardly cost effective to buy small amounts in Ireland on the Internet. For example sugarfree.ie sells bars of chocolate on the Net but charges a flat fee of €5. All these small Internet companies have the same problem " the cost of deliveries " . The large companies can spread the costs but are also having delivery cost problems. Amoson UK has free deliveries on the Mainland but charge in Ireland north and south. The post offices around the world are loosing millions and making thousands redundant. They can't square the circle of cheap post with high overheads and fewer posting letters more positing packets and parcels.