![[VIC] Canadian Club Whiskey 1L $39.99 @ Lotte Duty Free via Laneway Melbourne Airport](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/04/841404.jpg?h=3d9cc070)
I recently saw this deal at international departures and realised that I could've saved another $24 for my friend. But anyways, if you are travelling these are few of the deals that I clicked at Melbourne Airport.
[VIC] Canadian Club Whiskey 1L $39.99 @ Lotte Duty Free via Laneway Melbourne Airport
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AnirudhD on 16/04/2024 - 03:24 laneway.melbourneairport.com.au (444 clicks)
Last edited 16/04/2024 - 09:17 by 2 other users
Last edited 16/04/2024 - 09:17 by 2 other users
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From which airport?
Wife just brought me back a 1.75 ltr bottle of CC from California cost $17.99 usd, approx $28 aud. Just mentioning this as a perspective of the high sin taxes paid on alchoholic beverages in Oz. As an added bonus it's 40% abv. They sell CC in Oz at 37% abv to lower the tax rate levied on the Australian distributor.
But you'd think that with Duty Free booze in Oz, that wouldn't be an issue? And yet even as such, we're paying over a third more for 37% stuff.
Why do you think that might be?
My guess is due to and high rents at airport locations and high retail margins
Op just discovered duty free
Don’t forget to buy a pack of smokes lol
The restrictions on duty free tobacco is heavy duty these days
It's now about $100 tax per litre of 100% alcohol, so you're paying around $25 in tax per bottle of spirits or case of beer.
It's going to get cheaper to fly overseas to buy duty free booze than buying from the local bottle-o.
So I need to enter the duty free zone to get this, ie. I need an international flight first?
There might be more deals there. There might be more deals in the country you're going to.
Is there a system to duty free purchasing? I have been on two international trips in the last couple years and didn't bother with duty free either time, the idea of lugging around alcohol just seemed really unappealing.. Leaving the arrivals area of Sydney airport whilst coming home was about as close as I got and even then the prices weren't mind blowing or anything so I didn't bother.
I haven't been overseas for a few years, but you used to be able to either buy before you leave and just pick it up when you return, or just buy it at the airport when you return. Or look at the prices here and compare them to the prices overseas and see which one is cheapest. I found that when I was in the US it was cheaper to buy at the retail shop than duty free in AUS anyway - even before buying it duty free in the US.
I found that when I was in the US it was cheaper to buy at the retail shop than duty free in AUS anyway - even before buying it duty free in the US.
That's very often the case, as most countries have:
- lower taxes on booze and generally
- cheaper retail prices
than Australia. The store has to have their cut too.So, merely to illustrate and not 100% accurate example: a bottle of imagined Jackie Walker costs $20 in wholesale where it's manufactured overseas.
In Melbourne, it's going to be $20 + Aussie duty + Aussie tax + Aussie markup = $60.
At Melbourne airport, duty free, it's going to be $20 + decent Aussie markup = $35.
Overseas, country of origin, it's $20 + local tax + local markup = $25.See hard liquor next to potato chips at Japanese 7-11s…
Jackie walker lmao. You know that nobody is going to come at you for trademark infringement on an Ozbargain post, right? ;)
Checking final point of departure also a must. Have had to leave my duty free before boarding on stop over before 😭
Aussie grog is so damned expensive that it surprises me how few people home brew.
Then again, home brew takes a tiny modicum of patience and effort, so actually it makes perfect sense why modern people are happy to dump half their discretionary spending money on booze (the other half presumably being the pokies and/or uber eats).
Aussie grog is so damned expensive that it surprises me how few people home brew.
Aussies so damn easily spend their money that it surprises me grog isn't even more expensive.
We might be in an OzB bubble here.
Hmm ok you've convinced me, I'm whipping out my old homebrew factory on the weekend.
Can't tell if serious, but if you are - hell yeah mate.
For everyone else - You don't need any sort of factory. In fact, all you need is a 2L bottle of apple, grape, whatever juice you like, some white sugar, some yeast ($2 for a pack of nice yeast that'll last for many batches off ebay, or you can use bread yeast from colesworth) and a $1 gas lock off ebay. Stab a hole in the cap of the juice jug, slap in the gas lock and glue it in (blu-tac works fine too), pour yourself about a cup's worth to make space, dump in about half a cup of sugar, and put in a little of the yeast packet. Wait a week or two until the bubbling stops, and pour off the liquid into an empty bottle (obviously I use the empty bottles from the last batch) to leave behind the yeast sitting on the bottom. Voila, pretty strong homebrew. You can do this very cheaply at whatever scale you like.
If you prefer beer, well - a beer brewing kit is a little pricer but pretty similarly easy.
I'm doing it. I got lazy and stopped… but beer is just too expensive for me to justify buying it these days.
I have a good beer setup with 30L and 60L keg. I'm not sure my ingredients are still good, might have to order some mass sugar and malt.
International should be cheaper. Recently got 2x1L CC for $70 duty free.