A snip at half the price or is it just a snip?

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6618578581828630597.post-78061665154384319692008-04-01T14:55:00.011+01:002008-10-13T21:09:08.366+01:00A snip at half the price or is it just a snip?I was reading the Irish Times Magazine last weekend. It's a good mag. I read it every weekend. It has a new wine correspondent - stolen from The Sunday Tribune...or came across..whatever, he's new and this blog really has nothing to do with his column. <div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184589744894853394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qh99pXE-6Q/R_Nc52KXQRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/SqZKeUqZ4jo/s200/irish_times_moving_building_1.jpg" border="0" /> A Snippet <div align="justify">No. This blog has to do with two separate comments in the mag in relation to wine value.</div> The aforementioned columnist, John Wilson, reported on a promotion by the fabulous Ely Wine Bar. He reckons a Viognier from Domaine du Montmeillet is 'a snip at €32.00 per bottle..' Later in the same issue everyone favourite food critic, Tom Doorley, reckons that Dr Von Basserman's Mosel Riesling is ' a snip' at €24.45 on the Liberty Grill's menu. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184586725532844258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qh99pXE-6Q/R_NaKGKXQOI/AAAAAAAAAJk/NY7ffJABbVI/s200/diy-vasectomy-magnet-set.jpg" border="0" /> Home Made Snippets! So, we have a SNIP at 32.00 and another at 24.45. Fun isn't it? Pat the Patricia Carroll in the same issue reckons Domaine Begude Le Petit Ange VdP d'Oc is 'a steal' at €7.49 in the Superquinn wine sale. Is a snip and steal the same thing and are either good value? Is it possible to find good value in Ireland at all? What does a snip mean anyhow? Is it good value or is it simply better value compared to another time or place? Maybe its just a good sound bite and doesn't mean anything at all? Good value in the Irish wine market must relate to the quality of the wine and its price in relation to wines of a similar quality being sold elsewhere in the market. We have been fooled, in a very spectacular fashion, by the super markets into believing that value is price related only. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184586850086895858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qh99pXE-6Q/R_NaRWKXQPI/AAAAAAAAAJs/i64BG6jfgE4/s200/Vasectomy1.gif" border="0" /> Supermarkets will sell anything these days.. Half Price is not the same as good value. Should it have been the full price in the first place? What makes up the full price so that it can be sold at half price and yet return a full margin to the super market? Does the distributor or producer get more when it's being sold at Full Price. I doubt it very much! Is it a SNIP when we are asked to pay twice the average spend on a bottle of wine or should that be termed good value? I can make the case where Chateau d'Yquem is good value at a very high price. I can equally agree with Pat Carroll that €7.49 is good value for the VdP in question. Is it a steal however when it could be sold cheaper still or that someone else is selling something just as good at a lower price! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184586983230882050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qh99pXE-6Q/R_NaZGKXQQI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/RCon2xaSlYQ/s200/images.jpg" border="0" />I reckon that</div><div align="justify"> It's a SNIP when: You are offered a discount off the shelf price. It's a STEAL when: It can never be found cheaper. It's a BARGAIN when: It's cheaper than last week. It's GOOD VALUE when: It's unique and seems to be offered at the lower end of the available price bracket rather than the at the highest price the market can hold. It's a GOOD VALUE BARGAIN SNIP STEAL when: It's been smuggled! <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184593915308097826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Qh99pXE-6Q/R_NgsmKXQSI/AAAAAAAAAKE/eT-rR-cldV8/s200/smugglers.jpg" border="0" /> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6618578581828630597-7806166515438431969?l=firstpress.blogspot.com'/></div>firstpresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11190691460610534516kevin@kevinecock.ie0