Ektar 100 in 5x4 available in the UK yet?

[Songyun]

Why is film more expensive in UK than US? The only film that has similar price is Kodak TXP. Ilford is so expensive here in UK, I can not understand.
BTW, I bought 4 boxes of ektar from Badger, loaded in my film holder, but I haven't started to shoot yet.

[jennym]

I think you will find that many things are a lot more expensive here....

[Thingy]

The prices of most things were deliberately increased, often doubled, when decimalisation took place. Many businesses took the opportunity to hoodwink a public unsure of the new currency, into beleiving that the new money had half the value of the old money, in part because the new £ had a value of 100 pence, whereas the old £ had a value, I recall, of 200 OLD pence. Had we kept the old currency, prices would probably be more in line with US prices, especially for the UK based Ilford!

[Joanna Carter]

I reach for Provia when I feel that Pro160 needs turning up to 11.
I'm a negative kind of guy.

Provia is a transparency film

[Songyun]

I think you will find that many things are a lot more expensive here....

and the VAT is going to be 20% next year...
What I don't understand is that why Ilford and Fuji are more expensive in each domestic market, while they sell less expensive in U.S.

[IanG]

It's called free trade, it's an unequal system that has gone on for many years where goods are always cheaper in the US than elsewhere.

Basically companies sell in the US at low to get volume sales and expensive elsewhere to make their profits, thats mainly cameras and electrical goods though. It's also because low taxes make it cheaper to operate, so mark ups are lower etc.

Also the pound has dropped making the dollar worth more so US films haven't had the same price rises as here and Japan.

Ian

[Marizu]

Provia is a transparency film

I appreciate that. C41 chemistry is cheaper than E6 and it keeps much better so I'd be happy to ditch the Provia.
Also I can print colour negs in my darkroom if I feel like it.

[Thingy]

I think you will find that many things are a lot more expensive here....

and the VAT is going to be 20% next year...
What I don't understand is that why Ilford and Fuji are more expensive in each domestic market, while they sell less expensive in U.S.

VAT is actually low in the UK in contrast to the rest of the EU. When I stayed with some friends in Roskilde, Denmark several years ago, the VAT rate for luxury goods (ie whisky, beer & real chocolate) was 40%! It has come down since.

Interestingly because Denmark charges hight VAT rates on computers but not on software, software in Denmark is roughtly the same price as it is in Britain but the computer hardware is significantly cheaper, just so long as you don't mind having a Danish keyboard and the operating system etc in Danish!