A Friday thread; Things that are unexplainably expensive…

Starbucks Coffee

BDSM

Enterprise software.

SQL Server sir? That’ll be three grand. Wait, your server has two CPU cores in it? That’ll cost you double. Or you can pay extra for the client licences instead, in order to access something you’ve already bought. Shysters.

Oh, and,

Soft drinks in pubs, specifically the postmix guns going for a comparable price to the beer. The markup on that stuff is in the thousands of percent.

Cars, thousands of people drive newer cars than me (mine is 13 years old), where does all the money come from to fund them?

That’s because the majority are leasing them, see the neighbours have a new one so need to do the same. I’d rather pay an extra £200 into my pension than have a new car just so I look like I can afford one.

Spectacles and sun glasses…

I was shocked at a pair of riding sunnies at over £150. That’s just mental IMHO and I won’t be buying them.

Popcorn in cinemas? In fact, food in cinemas in general, £3.50 for a bag of chocolate that £1 in Tesco? Yes, I know it’s a secondary purchase to make the profit but it’s still a rip-off.

Soft drinks in pubs, specifically the postmix guns going for a comparable price to the beer. The markup on that stuff is in the thousands of percent.

Yes this got charged – well they tried i declined to pay and they would not haggle- £1.60 for a half of coke.

Bike brake pads Hope ones by Hope cost the same as my car ones ! as do their discs

£1.60 for a half of coke.

Bargain! Coke is £4 a pint from the Alford Arms near my parent’s place.

Had a a tab going, almost fell over when I had to settle up. Haven’t been back since.

Crisps especially hand cut super crisps with salt gathered from the dried tears of unicorns and pepper from the foothills of the Himalaya, cooked with oil pressed from sunflowers grown in the butt crack of a playboy model. 3.95 to you sir.

Bargain! Coke is £4 a pint from the Alford Arms near my parent’s place.

They can afford it round there.

joolsburger – where in the world do you buy your crisps? They sound amazing. Unicorn tear salt is my favourite tear salt, children’s tears are so bitter.

Bicycle tyres!
There’s no way they should cost nearly as much as car tyres. (and equivalent to in some cases)

But it’s equally easy to spend £30 for one that works perfectly well.

What? A VW for 30 quid?

Anyway – unquestionably inexplicably and not at all reassuringly expensive, my bloody glasses.

Birthday cards.

I cannot help but read that in t M & S voiceover style

Some clothing brands.. eg ’yeti’ brand[/url] down jackets.

BDSM

You joke about that but a friend of mine used to be quite heavily into the BDSM and fetishwear “scene” in Leeds, to the extent that he worked as a model and got most of his clobber knock down or free. He always said that he cpould never understand how people could afford to get into it without being able to buy stuff at trade price. I used to say the same about mountain biking.

You joke about that

he would never joke about that

Hunters Wellies, £90 for moulded rubber.

he would never joke about that

That would make him a bad man…

Things in London

lip gloss*

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* I was with mrs b when she bought some 😯

mind you my shaving oil wasn’t any better

You joke about that but a friend of mine used to be quite heavily into the BDSM and fetishwear “scene” in Leeds, to the extent that he worked as a model and got most of his clobber knock down or free. He always said that he cpould never understand how people could afford to get into it without being able to buy stuff at trade price. I used to say the same about mountain biking.

who’s joking, an hour with a Pro Domme is painful on the wallet too!

Estate agent fees

Lawyers

Medicines for animals

Mrsfarmers’ drinking habit (she is a good Bavarian lass!!)

Razor blade refills! 😕

alcohol in scandinavia
Ink in inkjet cartridges
Motorcycle tyres that do a couple k miles
SMEG fridges
Dyson Fan heaters
Black cabs – see uber 🙂
Children – but thats an ongoing cost
Dental care and teeth

Curtains – they are just sheets of material hanging off a pole

Pub own soft drinks as above. No excuse for the outrageous mark up.
Bottled water.
Chip shop gravy/curry sauce.
Gas boiler servicing.
Divorce.
Pasta in tomato sauce.
Artisan bread.
Leading makes of ice cream.

Parker specific fountain pen ink cartrages.

broadband
gas prices
orange bikes
2nd hand older 125cc motorcycles (yamaha dt125 for instance).

Broad beans.
Piss easy to grow but supermarkets charge a fortune for them, I shelled split and weighed a packet from sainsburys and ended up at around £16/kg!

Knickers. They are shorter than shorts and have three huge holes in them, so why are they so blooming expensive?

S&M have a lot to answer for 👿

The outdoor clothing industry.

Some clothing brands.. eg ‘yeti’ brand down jackets.

Moncler clothing. I swear not long ago it was just another brand of puffa jackets. Now it’s sold from fancy boutiques with a doorman.

contact lens cleaning solution. It’s mostly distilled water anyway.

Inner tubes. But hey, it’s probably to cover the costs of keeping the LBS going, so that’s ok.

UK houses

+1

Bottles of wine in restaurants, but probably the same principle as inner tubes.

All of these things are just examples of “things that I think are expensive”, but none of them is inexplicably expensive.

Actually, Mr Smith’s suggestion is bang on for the ‘inexplicable’!

Broad beans.
Piss easy to grow but supermarkets charge a fortune for them

So true & never understood it myself either.