On 2007-03-24 20:44:24 +0000, (Andrew
Gabriel) said:

In article ,
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:

If you are intent on using halogens, Ikea do a unit
with 2 or 3 10W lamps which takes a mains feed
directly...
http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/store...ductId =83842

Out

of curiosity, I tried playing with that URL. If you change the
storeId=7 to different values, you get the price in other countries.
storeid=4 is the price in France, which is the same in Euros as the
UK price in pounds. Same with storeid=9 for Holland. Italy and Spain
have to pay more, but UK is the highest price, at least in Europe.

Interesting. It's ‚¬29.95 in France, but even so....

VAT is higher in France (19.6 IIRC) so on the net price of the item
even bigger difference.