Contact lens fluid.
Galaxy Note 7. Very expensive for a firelighter.
P-Jay - Member
Glasses are massively over-priced, but it's largely because people won't pay much for eye exams etc so the cost has to be hidden in the glases.
🙂 I don't pay for eye-tests either...
My current frames are made by [i]theo[/i], and [i]mykita[/i]. [i]theo[/i] have provided spares for 5 year old frames for me, doesn't alter the fact that I need to get progressive lenses towards the end of this year, in 1.74 (or potentially 1.9) index, bi-aspheric....
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Oh... Not that inexplicable.
Windows and doors always seem to be ridiculously priced to me. Totally agree with glasses and children's shoes too. We always buy a few sizes in the Clark's sale to cover is from having to remortgage the house.
Coffee and Tea in cafes.
you didn't think that through, did you?
Contact lens fluid.
I see you that and raise you "inkjet printer ink"
[i]"For example, HP makes the HP300, which contains [b]5ml of black ink and sells for about £13[/b]. It also makes the HP300XL, which has more ink – about 16ml – and sells for around £20-£25."[/i]
-- https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/23/printer-ink-cartridges-paying-more-getting-less
Yes, taps!
Mr Pea is a plumber, and is shocked that I think taps should be about £25.
Maccruiskeen- I'm 48 and yet to purchase a tap 🙂
Razor blades
Single ring cranksets. 🙁
Di2 Battery.
bikebouy - MemberThe
Mrs.
Agreed, his Mrs.
Yes, taps!
Mr Pea is a plumber, and is shocked that I think taps should be about £25.
Plumbers (and trades in general)
Hmmmm, every tap in this place has been purchased by me.
Maybe i'm doing it wrong.
I can confirm that they are expensive. (about 6500 sek for the fancy shower one, about half way up the available selection, no way i'm paying 12000+ sek for a showertap. Even if it is shiny)
Plumbers (and trades in general)
Weeksys plumber mate, apparently!
Razor blades
Absolutely. It's disgusting! How can a single one be
Haven't been clean shaven for over a decade now and I don't miss buying those ****ing things!
Beer in Indian restaurants , ahh thats what the floor to ceiling windows are for. .....
Any foodstuff that contains Quinola
Isle of Wight ferry prices
Branded drugs V supermarket drugs ( Neurofen 6 x price of Ibuprofen )
Razor blades
Nonsense. 10p each.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Astra-Superior-Platinum-Shaving/dp/B00CK7NQ8Y
Or 40p each for the best you can get.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fèather-Hi-Stainless-Stainless-Steel-BIade/dp/B01L6Z0EC6
thisisnotaspoon- if you knew how much a plumber actually brings home in pay, you wouldn't say that. Mr Pea works really long, filthy and exhausting hours.
What's your job? Let's see if I think you're worth your income 😛
Referendums.
Oh and trains.
My glasses inc lenses = £10
Cost of new lenses with a slightly different prescription put into the old frame = £30.
Go figure.
Replacement batteries for power tools.
Cheaper to buy a new drill than an extra battery.
anything 'ENDURO'
Razor blades, don't get me started - I'm about to declare a fatwa on Gillette, £15 for 4! I remember moaning when they were £5 for 5!
I'm aware you can shave like it's the 1930s for pennies a blade, but it sucks.
I got temped by a Phillips One Blade the other day, £23 and the blades last months (they say) seems £23 buys you the chance to tease your stubble with a buzzing plastic watchacallit for an hour to little result. Bobbings.
I'm going to grow a beard, that'll learn 'em.
I'm aware you can shave like it's the 1930s for pennies a blade, but it sucks.
It really doesn't. I get a better, and easier, shave with an old DE razor than a modern 37-blade thing. The one thing the Sensor is better at is edging, so I use that to shape beards and sideboards (a blade lasts for months) and the DE for day-to-day shaving.
Gortex... Probably cheap as chips in China... and Cinema tickets!
Curtains.That is all.
Hmmmm, let's see you buy the material of your choice, plus lining, plus the material for doing the top part where the fittings go, properly measuring up, cutting, machining, and getting the whole thing done correctly first time, oh, and having the space to lay everything out, and a really good machine to sew them with.
I'll give you a clue: a good machine could cost you a couple of hundred quid for starters.
A good friend of mine is a trained seamstress, I know how much work goes into even a simple little job, to make certain it's done right first time.
That skill takes years, and doesn't come cheap either.
And a really good pair of curtains could easily last thirty to forty years...
Now let's see your attempt at doing it.
Chipboard/melamine units
A wall bathroom unit in wickes, made from crappy chipboard with a shiny white finish
£500
Absolutely ridiculous
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Five Guys,
Went for the first time last weekend, captive audience.
It was lovely, maybe 5%-10% nicer than Burgar King, but 2 entry level bugers, 2 small chips, 2 pops - TWENTY SEVEN POUNDS.
Employees.
They just 'know thing's and 'do things' then expect to get paid for it without giving me anything of actual real tangible value, like gold or coal, in return.
Don't even get me started on 'ideas' - thats not even an imaginary thing!
Yet when they go out and spend that money (my money by the way because they haven't given me any actually things for it in return) they just moan about how much of its wasted on people's time and effort, rather than things you can actually weight on scales. But thats exactly what you've just been paid for you idiots! The only 'stuff' you actually bring into work all week every week is your sandwiches- and then you bloody eat them!
😆
Waitrose.
Run flat tyres on my car.
Club replica football kit.
Lego.
- I'm about to declare a fatwa on Gillette, £15 for 4! I remember moaning when they were £5 for 5!
It's not the blades that are expensive, it's the marketing BS and being gullible enough to fall for it
[url= http://www.shaving-shack.com/gillette-7-o-clock-double-edged-razor-blades-green-super-stainless.html ]£2.99 for 5[/url]
I'll give you a clue: a good machine could cost you a couple of hundred quid for starters.
Two hundred quid and you're up and running in a trade (or even just a hobbyist)? That's a bargain.
A good friend of mine is a trained seamstress, I know how much work goes into even a simple little job, to make certain it's done right first time.
That skill takes years, and doesn't come cheap either.
I doubt the million dollar curtains you get from [department store] are hand crafted by a professional seamstress who's making certain it's "done right." They'll be done by machine or by Far Eastern sweat shops paying tuppence a fortnight to put a hem on a big square of fabric.
As mentioned, definitely the Isle of White Ferry - nuts!
Tesco - every time I go in for a couple of bits it cost £40 and I leave feeling bum raped. Don't get that at Aldi or Waitrose.
Beds n mattresses.
Astro turf
Sky tv
Starbucks/Costa if you have anything as well as coffee, you get fleeced
Parking
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Yeah, especially the ones at trail centres 😈
Naim equipment - but oh so worth it!
Never used but apparently the Heathrow express costs more per mile that the Space Shuttle did.
Common sense - must be expensive going by the amount you see
the Heathrow express costs more per mile that the Space Shuttle did.
No WiFi on the shuttle though.
Re weddings, as mentioned earlier;
Weddings are far harder for the ladies. We've got one coming up soon. I'll be wearing my morning suit, as per. Tie and cufflink choice is about all I have to consider. Mrs CFH has tried about 438 dresses, 271 hats and 328 pairs of shoes.
Chaps get it easy. And cheap.
on the tea and coffee this sums it up
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whats the phrase? Know the cost of everything and the value of nothing
dog shampoo how many x the price of human shampoo?
but 2 entry level bugers
next time order 2 buger shugers and see what that costs you - if they say they don't do it - say you know that the its the owners speciality
Weddings ..
Chaps get it easy. And cheap.
You've clearly never had to pay for a kilt!
(Though admittedly, unlike wedding dresses, at least a decent Prince Charlie can be re-used at social events for the rest of your life)
Eye moisturising spray, ironically it's eye-wateringly expensive...
"Bromptons - expensive, continue to hold their value though"
Bromptons aren't 'inexplicably' expensive though. The frames are made in the UK, and the company is based in London, so that goes quite a long way o explain why they are relatively expensive.
"Two hundred quid and you're up and running in a trade (or even just a hobbyist)? That's a bargain."
Now factor in the years of learning a craft. You can't reasonably put a price on that at all, it's impossible.
In my experience, people like seamstresses get paid little more than minimum wage, mainly. These aren't lucrative trades.
In reality, most things really aren't 'inexplicably expensive'; there's invariably an explanation, which the person complaining about the cost of something, may well be ignorant of. Even if the explanation realy is as simple as 'someone wants to make money'.
The only thing I really struggle to understand the cost of, is certain services, such as 'consultancy'. For example, why is the proposed (and now possibly scraped) Garden Bridge going to cost taxpayers £22 million, even if it never materialises? If very little work has actually been done, and no materials/labour/machinery paid for, where's the money gone?
