wow what a price

Chippy · Post by **Chippy** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:48 pm

UK site rates £5 p/hr ! peanuts=monkeys etc etc

Our skilled workers (trades) are paid a minimum £10 p/hr on the cards, and cost in 20% for nat ins,hol pay etc + £3-4 p/hr for a vehicle on top. Skilled labourers (not eastern european unskilled, lazy and often thieving t*ss*rs, who are now banned from all my sites) are paid £7.50+ p/hr. These are not the best rates out there and you certainly wouldn't get a real chippy for that in london.
A decent tradesman should be able to earn £150 per day on price or target work - and by a good tradesman I do not mean someone who once read the readers digest do-it-yourself manual or went to evening classes for 10 weeks at a college thinking he could be a plumber (I've had'em!).
Every person who works on my sites are UK and OK, citb safety trained and can mostly complete their work unsupervised if necessary.
You do not get that for £5 p/hr.

digger · Post by **digger** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:35 am

here's a couple of pax for you Martin

http://www.langstonscott.com/LS/EventVi ... ventID=792

http://www.sportsworld-group.com/swg/sp ... ncert.html

....enjoy

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:07 am

yes so reasonable

might be alright in london where wages are high but frankly seeing a Saga pop singing group like Roxy Music who at last weeks Berlin sounded like they needed resperators ..paying here over 200 euros is toooooooo much.

with ref to an earlier posting about someone saying ALL eastern europeans are so and sos ...well that sounds like racism to me..and descrimation to say that WILL not be employed is also job descrimiination

please remember that the former sovet union put men into outer space, buillt space stations,, MIG 23 jets ...won many Nobel prizes....hardly a poor record now is it???

B2D · Post by **B2D** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:12 pm

Martin do you actually WANT to go and see Roxy music? You never mentioned that in your posts. I think that would be the deciding factor on whether you spend 200 euro or not.

I think you should save your money - I saw Bryan's idiotic fox slaughtering son on question time (WHY??!

) the other night. By buying the tickets you might be helping to send his younger children through public school to become equally chinless wonders.

martin · Post by **martin** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:30 pm

yes would like to see them if the tickets cost 20 euros and a meal was also 20.

the cost of 200 is a ticket and meal is a disgrace.

me thinks it would be better to hire a dvd of them,,,show it on a big screen and order a frango pirri piri para fora at 5 euros a kilo and sit at home and watch..the rest of the money could be given to help someone really in need in africa

pm · Post by pm » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:06 pm

It's not a disgrace at all.

Why do houses in CVO cost a lot. Ans. because people will pay for them.

Why do some concerts cost a lot. Same answer.

Uncle Blowfish in Climping Village Hall is much more economical.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:38 pm

I think it's about time thread was moved to chit chat or removed altogether, it does not belong here anymore and any first time visitors will wonder what the hecks going on and what's it to do with Carvoeiro. Mike

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:14 pm

its not chit chat its about the cost of living here in the algarve and the the sums of money charged to watch a pop group in the algarve,

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:52 pm

Quite right !!,

As the profile of ex pats living in the algarve is changing so obviously the cost of living becomes more important.

Maybe a few years ago there were many retirees in index linked pensions
who made the move , but today in the future it will be those of us who rely on a combination of Pensions ( after Gordon has taken his share ) and savings.
Our world is changing and we must change with it

Wortho · Post by **Wortho** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:29 am

Forget Roxy Music and go and see U2 in Lisbon instead I'd imagine you could get black market tickets cheaper than £200.

pm · Post by pm » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:42 am

I don't know what Roxy Music charge, but we went to see Alison Moyet in Chichester during the week and her fee was £30,000 (and was complete rubbish). A few years back they thought about Tina Turner, but she wanted £250,000. These prices are for a single concert.

bifas 1st darling! · Post by **bifas 1st darling!** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:31 pm

paid 40euros for Rod Stewart concert, plus tolls, petrol,dinner (46euros for two), cafés, water, parking....

200euros? Sounds cheap to me!!