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Old Oct 22, 2015 | 12:52 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyingDoctorwu
Wait those are euro prices... and euro bottlings so only 70 cl bottles.. skip them.. just kidding... Amazing prices.. I can't even wrap my head around those prices.. they clearly had to ship the bottles across the ocean and yet are a huge magnitude cheaper than you can find within spitting distance of the distillery.... does that US system (distillery->distributor->retail) plus US alcohol taxes really add that much?????
I should have said those prices are duty-free. So the same bottle in French store or UK would have 20% sales tax. But even then it sounds like you guys are saying it's cheap.
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