A Friday thread; Things that are unexplainably expensive…

Viagra 😆

Metacam (ibuprofen equivalent for pets).. £50 for 100ml.
I spend the best of £500 year on it. By the time the dog dies it will be about £3k on the stuff

Longleat entry prices. £23 for a child!!!!

Hifi leads.

Hifi leads.

Hifi leads you can almost get because there is a performance benefit between door bell wire and something that actually has some copper in it – you can then start adding material and complexity of manufacturing complexity for spurious benefit.

Less easy to get is expensive HDMI leads (even cheap ones are expensive). A data lead either does or doesn’t work. It can’t be better than functional.

You are right a digital signal can either work or not work but analogue really depends on the material used to work #snakeoilsalespitch

Beer in Australia. I live next to Cascade brewery in Tassie & it’s beer is significantly cheaper in NZ.

Metacam (ibuprofen equivalent for pets).. £50 for 100ml.
I spend the best of £500 year on it. By the time the dog dies it will be about £3k on the stuff

Cloudnine. You could try him on Flunixin. It is another NSAID but works out about 30% cheaper. Not sure if it is licensed for dogs though. It is what our sheep get if they need painkiller/anti inflam.

Lol kiwi, just supping a 12$ pint and just about forgotten it was expensive, and at least it’s not cascade though I am thankful for their trail hosting… What gets me is that fancy wine it’s all just grape juice isn’t it 😉

Fish and Chips anywhere south of Stoke.
Theatre/Show tickets.
Engine oil.
Train travel.
Muc off products.
Wheels in my lbs

If you think these things are inexplicably expensive, you should go into business and supply them at a lower price. Either you will make your fortune or you will find out that the prices are not so inexplicable…

Memory in iPhones.

Makita Batteries!!

Metacam (ibuprofen equivalent for pets).. £50 for 100ml.
I spend the best of £500 year on it. By the time the dog dies it will be about £3k on the stuff

Cloudnine… I’m (very) reliably informed that you are massively overpaying…

Glasses frames. Over £100 quid for a bit of plastic or metal!
Cheaper ones are available, but generally look crap (or are not to my taste to put it politely).

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

Probably the highest markup in bike shops. Sold for a fiver, trade price is under a quid. Buyers don’t really have a choice, so…..

Anything to do with housing is a rip off, one big gravy train.

What I was thinking, but give us an example of something which is…

is about the closest – though is this down do differing duty rates?

My suggestion would be Schwalbe tyres in the UK (when comparing with prices in German shops). Plenty of other bike parts you could apply this to, but those have the largest difference I’m aware of.

socks. it seems quite normal to pay 15 EUR/pair now. when did that happen 🙁

Specusuk – I knew someone would bring up curtains.
No they are aren’t just bits of material hanging off a pole.
The fabric has to be designed, woven, measured, cut (this is a skill), joined on an industrial machine, lining made and lined in, pressed, squared off to correct length, heading tape sewn on (or fancy hand finished heading)
If these are made to measure, then add on time going out and measuring (this is a free service in my business).
A couple of days later you’ll have a pair of curtains.

To save money why not buy your own fabric and lining and just see how much time it takes. Also hard work if you don’t have a proper workroom.

Bunnyhop – a professional curtain maker who is fed up with everyone thinking that curtains are expensive, then spend thousands on a ‘pushbike’.

Shower gel, in French Pharmacies..

Weddings

Anyway, digital subscriptions. What’s the markup like on those? 😈

Probably the highest markup in bike shops. Sold for a fiver, trade price is under a quid. Buyers don’t really have a choice, so…..

Anything else you would like to make up whilst you are at it? Certainly there will be a tube or two like that but you write it like it’s the norm.

It isn’t.

Tea.

Lots of places charging over 2 quid for a teabag and some hot water. Bonkers.

muppetWrangler

Weddings

This times a billion – if you phoned up B&Q and said “Hi there, I’d like to book an entire store for a day and night, all of it, don’t worry I’ll give you 12 months notice, I will fill it to the gunnels with my nearest and dearest who will be the best customers you’ve ever had, they’ll buy EVERYTHING you sell, honestly everything.” I’m sure they say “that sounds great, tell you what – I’ll give you 10% off everything for such a huge amount of business”. Not “ooo I know we’re a shop, and you want to bring 300 shoppers to my shop, but that sounds like a hassle – tell you what, give me £5000 and I’ll charge you 3 times as much for everything – how does that sound?”.

As for the rest of the Wedding Mafia – get in the **** Sea, £200 for a single bunch or flower or £200 to rent a Bay tree with a sticker on the back to say it cost £100 to buy,

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Lol kiwi, just supping a 12$ pint and just about forgotten it was expensive, and at least it’s not cascade though I am thankful for their trail hosting…

You’re drinking at the Winston I assume.

What gets me is that fancy wine it’s all just grape juice isn’t it

Pretty much grape juice that’s gone off a bit.

Beer at the Wahington Wizards basketball $12 a pint (at least it was good beer and not the crap they sell for £6 St the MEN)

A pub on the way home from my local loop charges over £2.50 for Soda and Lime. This is a discrace. I don’t mind paying the same mark up as they make from beer but not double. We don’t go there any more.

Suncream

socks. it seems quite normal to pay 15 EUR/pair now. when did that happen

It happened when they saw you coming!

£4 for 5 pairs at Morrissons. Unless you wear ‘posh’socks that only you see.

underpants! i hate paying lots of money for pants, cheapest ones are too uncomfortable.
tea in restaurants. can buy boxes of hundreds for the same price.
nandos. that is expensive chicken and chips. especially when compared to the harvester.

i love this thread. a proper english moaning thread.

Clothes that are made in countries with known issues of exploitative labour, that cost nearly as much as those made in the UK, or in Western Europe, where there are useful things like Health & Safety regulations etc…
Any professional services (until you work out how much it costs to actually employ people and keep an office running).

Hotel breakfasts.

£15 quid for a bowl of cereal?

Fuel at a motorway service area. £1.09 at local petrol station, not supermarket, £1.22 at services on M40.

Popcorn at the local multiplex, mental.