UK Price Rises

Enjoy the brexit dickheads.
Before brexit pound to euro 1.40
Now exchange rate 1.17

Pound to Euro was 1.14 in 2013 We are currently above that, and more in line with 2014.

go educate yourself.

Maybe so but the point is Brexit is being used as an excuse by companies like Sonos to hike prices up for consumers, only way to respond to them is to vote with your feet and boycott their products.

Please guys, have a look of this, and after tell your opinion about if it is an excuse or not.
Pound-USD (average rate per year)
Year 2014: 1.6477
Year 2016: 1.3556
Year 2017: 1.2388

Before brexit pound to euro 1.40
Now exchange rate 1.17

Pound to Euro was 1.14 in 2013 We are currently above that, and more in line with 2014.

go educate yourself.

Maybe so but the point is Brexit is being used as an excuse by companies like Sonos to hike prices up for consumers, only way to respond to them is to vote with your feet and boycott their products.

I quite agree - businesses are using Brexit and the exchange rate with the USA as an excuse to hike prices. And the forecasts for the pound and dollar is for this to improve - you can bet Sonos will not put prices back down when they do.

However, the fact is most retailers are adding 10% onto their prices; but Sonos, as ever, want to portray themselves as luxury so they buck the trend and put their products up by 20%.

It's as if the marketing team still think it's 1990. Consumers have more information at hand these days, consumers are more savvy, it's suicide.

You are quite right but when the Playbar was launched in February 2013 the rate was 1.51, There was no reduction in price to reflect 2014 price. In addition Sonos knocked £30 off some products at Christmas when rate was worse than now. It is I am afraid poor opportunism

Please guys, have a look of this, and after tell your opinion about if it is an excuse or not.
Pound-USD (average rate per year)
Year 2014: 1.6477
Year 2016: 1.3556
Year 2017: 1.2388

In the retail world, old products (such as the Playbar which is 4 years old this month) depreciate in cost. That is how retail works.

Old, in retail is 12 months.

Even with poor exchange rates, there is no justification in a 20% hike.

Sonos just added £100 to a 4 year old bit of kit, that is absolute business suicide.

The exchange rate was 1.5 back in Feb 2013 when the playbar was launched. Today's exchange rate is 1.25 - that does not equate to an extra £100!

This will go down in history. Almost comical.You are correct. It equates to £119.

You lot voted for Brexit. Blame yourselves. Could be worse. At least you're not stuck with Trump.

And the forecasts for the pound and dollar is for this to improve As anyone with any understanding of currency futures markets could tell you, this is a nonsensical statement as it implies the scope for limitless arbitrage profits.

You lot voted for Brexit. Blame yourselves. Could be worse. At least you're not stuck with Trump.Sadly, the whole world is.

I'm not entirely sure why somebody felt it necessary to make snarky comments suggesting long time posters would be "celebrating" the price rise. And indeed I'm not sure why anybody would think that Sonos would be happy with having to make a very difficult commercial decision. But make it they have.