What products are clearly overpriced but we still buy them?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Thread title says it all really. 

[GUBRATS]

Beer

[MattSantos]

7 minutes ago, GUBRATS said:

Beer

 Champagne. We have a contact who gets us good stuff at 25 or 30 a bottle depending on Rose or not. Because it's such a good deal, we always say yes. I've close to 20 bottles now for some reason. 

 

[Futtocks]

30 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Thread title says it all really. 

Any current kilowatt hour (kWh) of power.

Lamb shanks: a humble cut of meat that got fashionable enough over the last couple of decades to price itself out of the range of sensible people.

Any Starbucks product other than their weirdly decent coffee grinders.

[JohnM]

Anything Apple.

[Damien]

Razor blades.

Edited September 14, 2022 by Damien

[Moose]

Anything with Heinz on the label.

[Bearman]

Printer ink

[Futtocks]

Bottled water. I haven't bought any in years, since I was out in a heatwave and really needed it. Scary prices! Czech/Polish shops seem to have the best prices if you absolutely need a bottle.

However, the tap water where I live is rather nasty, so I do use a water filter.

[tonyXIII]

Petrol, or fuel generally. Far too much tax on it.

[Wolford6]

The entire Leeds Rhinos squad.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

6 hours ago, Bearman said:

Printer ink

This one comes up a lot when this question is asked. I'm not an authority on it seen as I don't print much and the once a year I do print something I just go to the library but I do know a photographer who prints a lot; he has a printer with 11 different ink cartridges in it and should just one of them run out then the machine won't let him print anything even if the empty colour isn't needed. Apparently even printing black and white, the printer adds a little bit of blue into it, claiming it makes it a nicer shade of black but it's clearly just the printer company wanting more money. I seem to think it costs him the best part of a grand to replace all the cartridges. 

Edit. Don't know if it's true or not but I read the other day that printer ink is actually more expensive than crude oil these days. 

Edited September 14, 2022 by The Hallucinating Goose

[JohnM]

5 hours ago, Futtocks said:

Bottled water. I haven't bought any in years, since I was out in a heatwave and really needed it. Scary prices! Czech/Polish shops seem to have the best prices if you absolutely need a bottle.

However, the tap water where I live is rather nasty, so I do use a water filter.

Similar here. OK to drink but firs the kettle and scums the tea. We use a filter system that fits under the sink. Water flows through two filter cartridges and into a third tap mounted on the sink. The cartridges last us about 4 months at present but we are heavy users . Pre retirement used to last 6 months. Pozzani filters, Louth.

Edited September 14, 2022 by JohnM

[Dunbar]

7 hours ago, Damien said:

Razor blades.

I clicked on to say that.  By far the most overpriced item on the shop shelves for what they are.

I am grown a beard now cause I'm a tight ######.

[Padge]

5 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

This one comes up a lot when this question is asked. I'm not an authority on it seen as I don't print much and the once a year I do print something I just go to the library but I do know a photographer who prints a lot; he has a printer with 11 different ink cartridges in it and should just one of them run out then the machine won't let him print anything even if the empty colour isn't needed. Apparently even printing black and white, the printer adds a little bit of blue into it, claiming it makes it a nicer shade of black but it's clearly just the printer company wanting more money. I seem to think it costs him the best part of a grand to replace all the cartridges. 

Edit. Don't know if it's true or not but I read the other day that printer ink is actually more expensive than crude oil these days. 

I used to visit a company that needed printers  at the end of the production line to produce certificates as the product came off the line. Instaed of having a cupboard full of ink cartridges they had a cupboard full of printers, they could buy a printer with a full set of cartridges cheaper than buying replacement cartridges. They ran the printers until the ink ran out, binned the printer and installed a new one.

 

[Adelaide Tiger]

As a fiscally prudent Yorkshireman I truly believe that every product that I buy is overpriced!

[RayCee]

7 hours ago, Adelaide Tiger said:

As a fiscally prudent Yorkshireman I truly believe that every product that I buy is overpriced!

Don't they have bargain bins in Adelaide?

[RayCee]

New cars. Except Dacia of course. 

[DavidM]

Going shopping this morning an awful lot of stuff ! 

[Adelaide Tiger]

4 hours ago, RayCee said:

Don't they have bargain bins in Adelaide?

They do but all the stuff they sell is still overpriced ######!

[RayCee]

7 hours ago, Adelaide Tiger said:

They do but all the stuff they sell is still overpriced ######!

Everything is overpriced in NZ. I recall a chat here with deluded pom when he frequented this site. He noted how costly things were here on a trip he had just made of the country.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Donner (doner?) kebabs. One newly opened place down here is selling them for around £15 a pop. A 10p pitta bread, fractions of onion, tomato and cabbage and some mystery meat. I Googled the cost price of these "elephants legs" that contain the "meat" and found they are remarkably cheap, around £4 a kilo and in many cases substantially less. No wonder there are thousands of them in every town, city and village, it's a license to print money.

 

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

2 minutes ago, Pigeon Lofter said:

Donner (doner?) kebabs. One newly opened place down here is selling them for around £15 a pop. A 10p pitta bread, fractions of onion, tomato and cabbage and some mystery meat. I Googled the cost price of these "elephants legs" that contain the "meat" and found they are remarkably cheap, around £4 a kilo and in many cases substantially less. No wonder there are thousands of them in every town, city and village, it's a license to print money.

 

 

A new burger place opened near my mothers house a while back so we tried it out. 3 burgers, couple of orders of chips and some onion rings. That was all. £45. East Yorkshire, not London. £45. 

The local chippy is getting a bit pricey as well. Maybe about 5 years ago it was £19 for 3 orders of fish and chips. Last time I went a couple of weeks back it was £24 for the same order. Going up by about a quid a year it seems just like Hull FC tickets. 

[Futtocks]

16 minutes ago, Pigeon Lofter said:

Donner (doner?) kebabs. One newly opened place down here is selling them for around £15 a pop. A 10p pitta bread, fractions of onion, tomato and cabbage and some mystery meat. I Googled the cost price of these "elephants legs" that contain the "meat" and found they are remarkably cheap, around £4 a kilo and in many cases substantially less. No wonder there are thousands of them in every town, city and village, it's a license to print money.

There's a hell of a lot more to the cost of food in a restaurant, café, bar etc. than the individual ingredient costs. And while not all of the linked article applies to a kebab takeaway, you should also remember that, since lockdown, commercial landlords are very eager to make back their COVID-related losses, so they'll be cranking up their prices.

https://www.jayrayner.co.uk/blog/oi-you-yes-you-the-one-whingeing-about-the-cost-of-the-restaurants-i-review-read-this-a-one-size-fits-all-response 

[silverback]

 AD-BLUE,  Addative for some diesel cars to keep immisions down,(seperate small filler at side of diesel filler)it were £8.95 12 months since at most garages, cheapest near me is £19.99,  for 10 liters,  halfords £32.99.  or £5 for a top up while you wait.