40 Expensive Things Whose High Price Tags Don’t Make Any Sense At All, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group
Many people, many minds. Especially when it comes to something as important as money and pricing. At different moments in our lives, we might believe some things are way too expensive, and then a situation may come when we feel like Shakespeare's King Richard claiming: "My Kingdom for a horse!"
In fact, every person has their own ideas about what is cheap, what is expensive and what should actually be cheap but at the same time, for some reason, costs as much as a private jet. You definitely don't need to be a PhD in economics to form your own mind on this.
There's a thread on Reddit where people try to figure out which things are actually too expensive for no particular reason. It is really popular with more than 22.3k upvotes and over 18.3k comments.
BoredPanda made a curated list with the most popular and witty opinions for you. So feel free to scroll down and have a good time reading, watching and of course commenting. After all, as we have told before: many people, many minds...
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Insulin
Since this is getting unexpected visibility, editing to add: Don't forget to check for manufacturers' Patient Assistance Programs, pharmacy discount cards, and goodrx.com for ways to bring the price down (in the U.S.)
Jane_Flowers69 told:
Dental care.
magikot9 agreed:
Me: breaks bone
Insurance: we cover that.
Me: breaks tooth
Insurance: sorry, but you didn't buy our Premium Bitey Bones package.
My sister has been struggling for decades because of this. She is lacking an enzyme that keeps her teeth healthy, and has spent tens of thousands of dollars over the years, trying to save them.
-eDgAR- said:
College textbooks.
I had a professor that was really against the college textbook industry and said it was a huge scam, so for the class I took with him he used a textbook that he wrote and provided a PDF version of it for free to all of us.
lilephant replied:
I had one require a book that he wrote himself….. but it wasn’t free and actually was similar in price to others. Ironically he was my ethics professor.
My Professor of economy gave us a 50 % off of his self written textbooks and allowed everyone not able or willing to pay the 50 % off to copy his books for use in his lectures (way before PDFs were a thing).
I honestly can't believe that nowhere in this post as of right now can EDUCATION be found. Now, college doesn't have to be free, but recently the prices have gone through the roof and based on this post, it seems to have been normalized.
Again, depends where. My kids can go onto further education for free in Scotland. Yeah they'd need a job for living expenses but everyone does unless their parents are taking care of them
knockfart told:
Funerals
ur_canadian_brudda replied:
Hi, I install and maintain headstones for a living. Preplan and PREPAY FOR THAT SH*T. Or at least make a will. It saves so much arguing later.
Almost nobody wants a gazillion dollars spent, but for some reason grieving peeps always feel like the $5500 casket that gets buried seems like a better deal than the pine box.
I have already arranged to donate my body to science... I don't care what they do with it, since I won't be needing it any longer. They cremate what is left and return the cremains. I have arranged to have those placed in a completely organic cemetery, in the middle of a 21000 acre nature preserve, where a small brass plaque and a tree will commemorate my passing. Total cost, about $350 and all arrangements are already made and paid for.
My 82 year old cousin overheard me say that I was donating my body to science, and wondered if they would accept hers. She was already in hospice, so we quickly made the arrangements, and less than a week later, she was gone.
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Funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living. The dead don't care (or, if you prefer to believe in an afterlife, there's absolutely nothing they can say or do a out whatever form the funeral takes if they do care)
True. I have said since I was about 12 I didn't want a funeral, but had to resign myself to the fact my family will want one. At least they know I want the quickest, cheapest thing possible.
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I have arranged to be cremated. I asked the facility to put my ashes in a speed bump so that I could continue to annoy people after I'm dead, but they declined.
I organized the cheapest coffin, etc for my husbands funeral, he was cremated. It still came down to a 3000 euro's so there went my savings down the toilet.
I used to just want to be thrown into a forest when I die, but noooo... that's "improper disposal of a corpse"... So here is several thousand dollars...?
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I have arranged with my son that when I die, cremate me and spread my ashes in the ocean. I would rather hang out with the sea life than sit on his mantle or in some graveyard and be long forgotten.
I want to be put in one of those pods and planted somewhere - I do not want whoever is left paying for an overly expensive box - save it and spend it at the bar, go get drunk, have fun and tell stories of how I aged with zero class and was a complete embarrassment but you loved me anyway.
In the mid-80s there was an advert for an insurance company (?) featuring various people "wanting to be" somewhere or something else. Like the little boy who wanted to be a slug. Well, one of them wanted to be a tree. That's me. When I die, I wanna be a tree (or at least the fertiliser for one)
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Compare prices from different funeral homes, ideally before you need them; ask for a natural burial or direct cremation in a cardboard coffin, or whatever else is available in your area, you don’t need embalming an a overpriced casket. Greetings from The Order of the Good Death.
My mom had my dad cremated when he passed ( Buddhist) we had the funeral, and I never knew that you had to pay for the casket he’ll be cremated in, $3000??!!
You don't have to. You can can rent the casket for the funeral. And then have them cremated and just a cardboard box. But they don't tell you that!
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They prey on people grieving, it is so callous. When looking at caskets for my father in law we asked why that casket was less expensive. His reply , well that one will eventually collapse on itself. I am with GoddessOdd, in a nature preserve. My organs are to be donated, not sure if there will be any takers!
If you donate your whole body, there are a lot of ways it can benefit mankind, after any useful organs have been harvested. If you search "natural cemeteries near me" you might find one as nice as the one I am using... https://www.prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org/
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Diamonds, baby! There are places that can turn your ashes into DIAMONDS! If it's a scam, I don't wanna know... I'll be dead and won't care! And will have gone to the great beyond thinking I'm gonna be immortalized as something so beautiful 😇
Ahhhh!! I forgot that's an option! I always told my mom if I died young I wanted to be turned into a heart shaped diamond
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my grandparents were the opposite. they set everything up beforehand, wanted the best caskets, biggest headstone cemetery would allow, etc. they had the headstone in place before they died and had a dedication on it from my father, my brother, and me. Like they signed our names at the bottom of their headstone. I thought it was hilarious, my dad was outraged.
My late husband was cremated and that saved thousands on his funeral, but I am a poor person and it was still expensive. It's worse when a loved one's death is sudden, because few people are prepared. You never know when death is coming so make your will and your preparations in advance, so you don't leave the financial burden for your family. What truly disgusts me is a funeral director pushing a grieving family to spend money they don't have. You're already not thinking straight and some unscrupulous people will try to talk you into spending twelve thousand dollars on a funeral. I'm relatively young (I was widowed at age 40; my husband was 38) but I have made my final wishes clear and I started a savings account for the expenses, though I haven't been able to add much to it lately. Those few dollars will at least spare my daughters some of the costs.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I think you should maybe make plans to donate your body. They'll treat it with the utmost respect, and you'll be doing a good deed to help the world. There usually is no cost, but you'll need to research and make sure, and find a not for profit organization. Usually they cremate (I wanted to just be dumped in the ground in a shroud, and will if my body can't be donated for some reason) and return the cremains to your family, if desired.
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Thankfully my family is pragmatic and we don't pay for fancy send-offs. Even then it's crazy expensive. For all the folks talking about body donation, check out a book called Stiff by author Mary Roach. Fascinating stuff.
I have always said throw me in the ocean. I know its not allowed but still I like the idea better then being cremated or buried.
I have also made the decision to have my body donated to science due to the fact that I do have a neurological autoimmune disease. From the very first time I’ve met my neurologist I continue to be told that I should not be able to do what I’m able due to the super aggressive “case” I have. That I make no sense. So I figure that if the research can make sense out of my so called perplexing nonsense. It might help others since my brain won’t be useful for me any longer..
My Uncle died & his wife lost her marbles because he was in the 15k...US...Casket, not 17k one she picked out. I almost came unscrewed...this was the same man who chucked his portion of my beloved Grandmother's ashes in roses next to house...where the neighborhood cats s**t. He was a straight up douchepacker, he gave his step kids my brother & I's inheritance & I'm hoping he was "mostly dead" when they closed the lid...thank you Billy Crystal. 😈
Ain't that a lot of crap! You can't even die without going bankrupt.. That's why I'm being cremated, hell I might even just jump in the ocean.
Answer to this? Cremation. Spread the ashes in their favorite places! Even then they try to get as much money out of you that they can.
Husband died suddenly during the plague. We only had a handful of friends and relatives in the area and no funeral was arranged, not that we could have one except 'online'. He was cremated. It was all over within a month. I've made it known I want the same when I die.
Lol we chinese or some asian countries have the superstition that we cannot bargain or negotiate price for such services. Doing such is seen as inviting another death rofl.
Paid $3.79 per mile to transport my father to where he'd be buried, over 650 miles. For his second funeral. Total cost of two 1 night showings-- $25,000
While you can, look into funeral costs and what is actually required. Some cemeteries require vaults in the earth for the caskets. This not required everywhere. In our state you can transport a body any way, anywhere once you have a death certificate. If you can find a natural cemetery you won't even need a casket. There are tons of options. Trying to do it "last second" is so difficult.
When my dad passed away, murdered in a city about 4 hours away from home, a funeral service company traveled from there to "help us" with everything, and they did help us out a bit. They had a contact in the police station and got my dad's ID info and address, which is how they found us, drove us to the other state, took us the proper officials and then took is to the funeral home to choose a casket and take.my dad he and all that, except they didn't say it would cost over $100,000 Mexican pesos. While a local funeral home, in our town, got us the casket, travel, delivery, and everything that it takes to bury someone, for around $20,000mexican pesos with a nicer, way nicer, casket.
I found out many years ago, that despite family paying a lot for a casket, if the deceased is cremated, they recycle the casket, it doesn't get burned.
I've already told my family to torch me when I die. No casket, no funeral, a beautiful celebration of my life with good music, good food, and good vibes, and scatter my ashes all over the world.
When my mum died, I went to what I thought was a local, independent funeral director. It turned out it had recently been taken over by a big company I despised for their behaviour when my sister's baby died. I told the company that I was looking for a coffin on Ebay or Amazon - I don't remember which one and he told me that if I did that, they would not carry out the rest of the activities associated with the funeral. I have since researched how to carry out a funeral without a funeral director and when my mother's body parts were returned several months after her funeral, I went directly to the crematorium and arrange it with them. Its cost a few hundred, instead of the thousands I had been quoted by the same company. Screw them, I would never use them again, if I have to!
I want to be dumped naked and with dental filling removed somewhere is a nice green Rainforest. If that offends wrap my body in an unbleached or old cotton t (op hemp) sheet.
Playing on a family's grief is the worst of the worst. In fact, I'd be in favor of government-provided cremations or natural disposal where any "extras" would be paid for by family and friends, or even ahead of time by the proposed deceased. But pickling a body and putting it in the ground, no matter what kind of container, is ludicrous.
My mom prepaid her head stone years and years before she passed. The third generation owners wouldn’t believe me over the phone, but I had a signed receipt by great grandfather. Saved a small fortune!
In Canada some of the large cities have memorial cooperatives that you can join for a nominal one-time fee (e.g. $40). This then entitles you to a low-cost cremation or burial and funeral service, if desired. Typically contracted out to a large funeral home and offered for a fraction of the cost - example a person I know paid $6600 for a funeral that would have cost $2200 with the membership.
You can legit buy a coffin at Costco. You can even get them online through Amazon or the manufacturer themself. That funeral home you're buying from will price gouge you to death (pun intended) Even your local "family run" funeral home is owned by a corporation and they're looking for $
I've asked to be burned and spread my ashes at my favourite lake and if in the afterlife I see a funeral for me, I'll haunt you, I don't want that. I recently discovered my parents made no mention of after death care in their wills, I was so angry at that considering their ill health. My husband wants to actually be thrown to wolves....
Pre pay and pre plan for that s**t my ass. I wasn't expecting to shell out $1300 to burry my infant. Only thing that saved us is my husband dug the grave. No one should have to pay to die. Not to mention in alot of states if the bill isn't paid for death of a child you can possibly be sent to jail for a year over it. It's all bs.
Funerals. I'm sure they justify it by it being a "One time event" like you only die once, so we can charge you as much as we want! Similar to Weddings. Why can't we just bury Mom in the backyard?
My dad always said he wanted to donate his body to the college he attended but, when he died, he hadn't completed the proper paperwork so they couldn't take him. The hospital helped us get in touch with an organization that accepts donated bodies for research. They picked him up at the hospital and transported him to wherever the research was being done. When they were finished with him, they cremated him and returned the ashes to me about 3 months later. (I could have chosen to have him sprinkled at sea.) This was all done at no charge to us, which was amazing because he did not have any money to pay for any kind of funeral expense. This is actually why he chose this route. The "funniest" thing was that, when I was filling out the paperwork, I could choose which types of research I was okay with having done and one option was "ballistics testing". I opted OUT of that part!
Cremation, is a God send when there's no will, and let's say your Mom, passes unexpectedly. She refused for years to make a will, thinking it will be like signing her life away, and she would die early. She was 74. We had zero money to pay for anything! We were told to go to DHHR, and they can help pay for cremation. My church, was very close to a man that owned a funeral home. He lent us a casket, and we were allowed to have the wake at my church. My mother's ashes sit on my brothers entertainment center, with family pictures around it. We talked about, me getting an urn, and splitting up the Ashe's. I might one day, but I'm scared done will spill if we do. I can visit whenever I want to!
Because of inflation at the moment it feels like everything. Why do I have to pay so much for food? Why is the gas so expensive? How will I keep sustaining my car? Will my wife and I ever own a home? It’s debilitating man
My heart really goes out to people just starting out these days. It was hard enough in my day, but things are almost impossible now. I think people will really need to turn out and make changes at the voting booth... trump undid a lot of the consumer protections Obama put in place, and without them, the rich get even richer (and not taxed, if the republicans have anything to say about it).
Feminine hygiene products.
There is no reason to spend 30 bucks a month for something that isn’t even my choice.
I don’t want to bleed for 7-10 days . If I could I would just rip out my ute**s.
Edit: for all the people out there suggesting me stuff thank you but I don’t need it anymore. I got the IUD 3 years ago and I hardly bleed. I just use a panty liner now and it’s super cheap. This was just how much I use to spend back when I bought pads and tampons (I had to use both …. Very heavy flow )
Glasses! I saw an interview on 20:20 or some news show and the brand name frames rep they were talking to, when asked why they charge so much for things that cost so little to produce, roughly responded “the glasses are worth what people are willing to pay for them 🤷🏻♂️”
You can request a copy of your prescription and buy online. http://zennioptical.com is really good. And if you have any old pairs of glasses you like the look of, they can put new lenses in for far cheaper.
emik7133 said:
Diamonds. Complete scam.
ThePlooker answered:
Yeah, I came to say this. Ya beat me to it. If it wasn't for DeBeers, diamonds would be about $20 per carat.
I love diamonds but we are saving to pay off our debts so my engagement ring is moissanite. It's 1 carat, white gold and cost £60! It's absolutely beautiful, you cannot tell the difference and its so much more ethical.
splitting_bullets said:
Housing. Everyone needs one, birth rates are predictable, people are better utilized when housed and not struggling too much
Unsteady_Tempo answered:
The lack of affordable housing is the consequence and failure of cities/counties not being more proactive in creating zoning laws that would require more density in new construction, fewer short term rental permits of non owner occupied homes, and limits on for-profit ownership of more than a few single family structures.
Housing is such a volatile market lately... and prices just keep climbing. The lack of low cost homes and rental accommodations makes a real difference in quality of life for ALL of us. Cities who can't house their workers become dangerous for everyone...especially the people experiencing homelessness who are often preyed upon.
shadysamonthelamb wrote:
The grocery bill is killing us. I feel like I get 5 things and somehow it's $50.
Dear_Program6355 replied:
You get to buy things?
I step in a supermarket, buy nothing, and somehow I've spent $50.
It's like the joke I heard recently... I spent $38 on apples at Whole Foods, and then I dropped them both!
Gr8_Ape_7 said:
NFT.....its a monkey
imvital replied:
You misspelled “money laundering”
Being healthy. Eating right cost more, gym and exercise time money time and commitment. This should be encouraged and supported not dragged down with extra cost.
There's a chain of gyms in Quebec that actually gives you a rebate on your gym membership for actually using your membership. If you got a 1 year membership and went 4x a week, it's like 30% they give you back
DanTheTerrible wrote:
E-books.
OneGoodRib answered:
Oh that's a good one. I get that just because it's a digital item that doesn't mean the author and publisher shouldn't make money off it, but it makes no f**king sense for the ebook to be $2 less than the hardcover. There's significantly less costs to the publishers with ebooks, why do they cost so much?? It's so f**king annoying to go on Amazon and it's like "$36 new hardback, $30 new paperback, $28 ebook, $10 used hardback". Why would I want the ebook when it's that expensive?! And I saw this as someone who is incredibly low on space for books and who doesn't even mind reading ebooks.
This. Why am I spending $12 on the Kindle book when I can spend $5 to get a used paperback? You're screwing up your own business model, people; I guarantee it costs more for them to ship me a hard copy, sharing some percentage of the price with whatever third-party seller I picked, than to download a file to my device, which I also bought from them.
pghreddit wrote:
Hearing aids.
Zelda_cat22 agreed:
As an audiologist, I 100% agree! Unfortunately the prices are the way they are due to two problems. One is most clinics “bundle” services. This is mostly because insurance doesn’t like to pay for our testing or rehabilitation/counseling we provide. Also-if you’re a small clinic the manufactures that make the hearing aids sell them at a higher price to you. For example, a small office might pay $1,500 for a pair of hearing aids. Whereas Costco, who can buy a lot more, only pays $100 for the same hearing aids. Its sucks because to become an audiologist you have to get a doctorate. You go through all that schooling just to end up “selling” hearing aids. One of the biggest reasons why I’m not practicing right now.
Running for office in America.
The cost to run a successful campaign in America for virtually any state level or higher political office is simply unattainable for the common person and prices out anyone but the ruling class of oligarchs and those with connections to it. Sure there examples of candidates outside the typical wealthy and ingrained political establishment, but they are the rare exception, not the rule.
With US House races costing over $2 million and Senate races costing over $16 million the average person, no matter how well educated and how well qualified, is automatically eliminated without a vast amount of personal wealth or connections to the individuals, corporations, and parties that do hold that power. So the halls of congress and the seat of power is never filled with our best and brightest, but instead those with the wealth to attain that power and the conviction to maintain that status quo at virtually any cost to the people.
This is a big part of the reason campaign reform is so important... nice normal people can't successfully run most of the time.
Drugs. They say it's to pay for R&D but there were meeting minutes leaked from a big pharmaceutical company where they were like how much should we charge for this drug? $20? How about $50? Why not $100? Why not $300??? So they went with $300/pill.
The real kicker here is that most R&D is funded by the NIH, or in other words OUR TAX DOLLARS. This needs to end ASAP
Fresh fruits and veggies in comparison to a McDouble
It amazes me, not being American, that it does cost so much less for junk food there than fresh food!
Buying and/or selling a house. There are so many people with their hands out that literally push paper and make a few phone calls. Total scam
And it's always a percentage of the selling price. Right, I'm sure the work is twice as hard when the price is twice as high.
PH0T0Nman said:
Adobe Products.
It’s a massive scam that they switched to a monthly fee as it’s killed any incentive for them to make meaningful improvements and they kill or buy up any competitors
_Dague_ replied:
Someone tweeted about pirating Photoshop and Adobe liked the tweet. They are well aware they have the most pirated product, but they know if they become an industry standard they can make their profits off companies buying 20 licenses at a time at $10 a month. They aren't concerned with amateur photographers stealing Lightroom.
It wouldn't surprise me if Adobe was releasing the cracked versions online to get more people using their products. Several other companies have adopted that business model of giving out a freeware version and then charging businesses for the premium.
moonflower19 wrote:
BRAS!
[deleted] answered:
Ask any man in your life to be your bra. I know I'd walk around all day holding my wife's t**s.
CrazyCatDog04 agreed:
Can confirm, I asked my partner to do this and haven't had to wear a bra in years
zzzz_bbbb said:
Everything associated with weddings.
meaganannmorrison commented:
This was my first thought too, trying to plan a wedding within an actual budget is HARD
mildewmoisturizer told:
Legos
nikon78698 commented:
What do you mean? $630 for the titanic is a steal…..
frozenuniverse added:
I dunno, it's a bit rusty by now, I don't think I'd pay $630 for it after all that time underwater
Even with 'sales' Lego is expensive, but I think it is better quality than the knock offs as it doesn't break as easily. Being reusable and having lots of open-ended (ie pieces that can be used for a variety of representations) pieces means you can buy a couple of sets and leave it at that if you can't afford more. I am looking forward to finding out what the bamboo ones are like too.
slyblueisblu told:
Theatre tickets. Stop being snobs and let us poor folk experience live Broadway shows too please
It seems a big part of the “value” of items like this is the expense keeps the r**f-r**f away.
There’s a comedian in the UK who jokes about how he now has a posh wife now so they go to expensive restaurants “for the ambience”. He eventually figured out what ambience was…. A lack of poor people being around.
Aloonatron answered:
Another fun bit from that routine is him asking for ketchup in a posh restaurant, so the waiter brings out a small discreet dish, which he samples, and then says “that’s great, I’ll have a bottle please.”
[deleted] said:
Having a roof over your head.
frederick_ungman answered:
Heck..just replacing a roof is crazy expensive. $21,000 for mine.
thotkeys told:
Xyrem. It can be absolutely life-changing for people with narcolepsy. However, most insurance doesn't cover it, and the out-of-pocket cost is about $6k for a 1 month supply.
Inevitable-Effort186 agreed:
My poor baby sister took Xyrem for a couple years. Completely stoped her seizures but the taste made her almost vomit every time ): also I don't remember it being expensive? I think we were on assisted state insurance then.
Taxes. Most of the money we “give” to our government either disappears or gets pissed down the drain. If the government cannot responsibly spend OUR money, then they really have no business handling it at all.
USA - it isn't taxes, it's inefficiency. Most of northern Europe pays more than we do, but they have funcitioning governments, so they get value for their money. We're just flinging money into a hole.
Vanatru told:
Bottled water
trevg_123 answered:
Get a water bottle and refill it, price takes a deep dive toward zero. You’re paying for the convenience, plus the inconvenience of adding trash to the planet
Down_Low_Too_Slow told:
Shaving razors
unoriginal5 answered:
I noticed even Dollar Shave Club, who was supposed to revolutionize the market, is on the shelf next to Gillette with the same high capacity cartridge at the same price. I switched to a safety razor, and buy 50 blades that last a week for $15.
m19honsy was curious:
You use 50 razors a week!! How many times you shave exactly.
If you’re female, always check male shaving product prices - often you’ll find they’re cheaper :) good ol pink tax
MiaLedger wrote:
Starbucks
7 dollar drinks are crazy
Senpai59210 answered:
I feel like the type of people who buy Starbucks regularly are the type of people who aren't concerned about the price of their drink
I think people are willing to pay Starbucks prices for a daily coffee must not have any need of the money. Considering what it costs to buy excellent coffee and make it at home, buying every day is a pointless expense to me. Even if you buy a $3 coffee every working morning, that's $60 a month, which would cover the cost of my internet and subscriptions.
NishantWubaluba told:
Popcorn in movie theatre.
[deleted] answered:
Anything in the theatre is expensive honestly lol
That's not the movie theatres' fault (entirely) though. They earn practically no money from the ticket price because of the studios' "conditions". Which are, btw, getting worse (looking at you Disney).
Life itself
Life has always been too expensive for many of us. I know I am very lucky to be able to donate to the food bank and the housing charities in my town, and wish everyone who can help would.
ReeG said:
Canadian internet and mobile plans
trentonl commented:
Rogers that
HodorsAB***h told:
“Designer” clothes, like, it’s a plain white top with a logo for £800 wtf
sprunk_bois disagreed:
That’s where I’m gonna have to disagree with you. What you are generalizing might be true but most designer clothes, while might not be worth their price to the penny, are still made with high quality material and a lot of designer products are hand made which would make them more expensive. Like the $700 Gucci watch I have is made with very good fabric and high quality silver. Also the Gucci wallet I have is made also with high quality fabric and real Italian leather. I could keep going but my point is that some products might be what you described but most aren’t and there’s a reason they’re that price
zigojacko2 commented:
It's got nothing to do with the materials used and purely the fact you are paying for the recognized brand... 🙃
Personally, I don't care even a tiny bit if designer stuff is expensive, because it only affects people who think designer stuff is important.
m100896 wrote:
Curtains and blinds.
popjunkie42 admitted:
Yes. Why? One of the bad secrets of owning a home. Rugs are expensive as hell as well.
I bought two pride flags for $40 and and some hooks at the dollar store and it does the job. I don't need to live in a cave with no sunlight, I just need a little bit of blockage.
Housing prices in major cities. Shops are closed, alot of things are moving online, people are leaving and houses are vacant. Why are prices going up.
I read somewhere recently, and I have no idea if it's true, but the article said there are 28 vacant dwellings for every homeless person in America. I know where I live, in a heavily entertainment based city, people can't afford to rent even studio apartments anymore.
Xendarq's opinion:
Nintendo Switch games
nousername808's answer:
Any proprietary Nintendo games never go down in price. Like Mario for wiiU is still $69 in 2022.
Same price if you buy online too. That is what kills me. For years they said the price is high because of manufacturing. Now it's "to protect their IP" it's bull.
the-alchemist11 wrote:
Panera
I426Hemi answered:
A girl I dated about a decade or so ago worked at a Panera and asked me to come have lunch with her once. I though Panera was just a cutesy little coffee and sandwich place and had an actual moment of "what the f**k is going on" when I saw the prices vs what you get.
kungfookate said:
Lobster. So much work for so little meat. You have to wear a bib to eat it in case the carcass squirts at you. You have to use tools and your own strength to even get at the edible part. Then when you finally pull your sore, red, wet fingers out with that precious tiny morsel, it doesn't even taste good enough on its own that you then have to dunk it in butter.
beetlehunterz answered:
Back in the day lobster used to be considered poor people food.
DerpNinjaWarrior commented too:
This us why I stick with lobster rolls. Which are still overpriced.
ExtensionAnybody467 commented:
Modern Art, like, wtf how does a boulder cost $2M!?
MagentaLea answered:
Easy just title it Tax Evasion.
jbergcreations commented:
Also actual boulders that aren’t art, if you want some rocks in your yard those things are expensive but someone found it for free in the wild and didn’t have to feed it or anything until it got to your house
Any art only has the value people are willing to place on it. If you are willing to spend $5m for a red circle in a blue square painted by a famous person, bless you. How much will you pay me to do the same thing? It's often more about the snob appeal of the signature than about the actual art.
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Electric vehicles, especially in Australia as our government is in bed with petrol magnates and so adds taxes onto the already high price.
I dont know if you have them there but Dacia has a lot of "relatively cheap" EVs
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no no no ... to solve problems we must first identify them! It's only a first step, MANY terrific new inventions are created every day. Check out a Youtube of Israel's EMT/first responder drones! I will try to find it ...
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physical therapy. I have a disability that requires weekly physical therapy to prevent all my joints from dislocating and it costs me $30 per appointment. imagine paying 1.5k per year just to live without your legs dislocating if you stand a little too long... I CAN'T EVEN GET A JOB BECAUSE IM DISABLED AND DISABILITY PAY IN THE US IS ABSOLUTELY F*CKED
THIS GENUINELY MAKES ME WISH I WAS NEVER BORN I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND
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Most of these are people complaining about the exo expenses of things that they do NOT need. I mean Modern "Art", bread from a fancy bread shop, Nintendo games, Fancy funerals and wedding receptions!! Wealthy people's problems!
true but sometimes annoyance is the mother of invention.
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Online subscription services for consoles- Older consoles with just as good online functionality can go online completely free and have free online multiplayer. These days you have to pay a stinking subscription fee for it. It's like they went "we don't need to charge you for this but huh you'll pay it let's do it". They're not that expensive I guess but considering it's a service they could offer for nothing, it's stupid
To be *at least slightly* fair to them, old online games were pretty much all peer to peer connections, the most the game really did was find your opponents. That's still common in PC games but console versions often set up central connections. I doubt it justifies the cost per person, but at least they also throw a bunch of free games in.
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Credit card and loan interest rates are way, way, way out of line, especially since banks give virtually no interest on deposits. I saw a US bank offering a 'generous' 0.5% interest rate recently and wondered how anyone could think that is OK. I live in South Asia. My new account has a 6.5% interest rate, which is actually quite low for here—but it sure beats the USA. I didn't even realize when I signed up for it that I could actually qualify for a savings account. When I was growing up, interest rates were more like 10%. 20 years ago, a jumbo CD brought in 20% interest. People complain about prices being high where I live, but I am paying $200 for a little cottage overlooking a lake, and maybe another $100 a month for food, so it's much more livable than the USA, Canada or Europe. I'm happy to live a simpler life. Medical and dental expenses are much more reasonable here, too.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but most banks here make all their money on loan/credit card interest, with a smaller amount on fees and such. Despite it seeming like fewer people can afford things with their own money, I think it's also the case that fewer people can or will get credit cards, so they had to lower interest rates on cards, and offer Cashback benefits, meaning they also had to lower positive interest rates on debit accounts. That's really me taking a stab in the dark, but I know the only reason I signed up for a credit card at all was 2% cash back on purchases, and I do not plan to leave a balance to charge interest on.
Load More Replies... Electric vehicles, especially in Australia as our government is in bed with petrol magnates and so adds taxes onto the already high price.
I dont know if you have them there but Dacia has a lot of "relatively cheap" EVs
Load More Replies... This is soo f*cking depressing! World is crap and will be worse, life is forever struggle.
no no no ... to solve problems we must first identify them! It's only a first step, MANY terrific new inventions are created every day. Check out a Youtube of Israel's EMT/first responder drones! I will try to find it ...
Load More Replies... physical therapy. I have a disability that requires weekly physical therapy to prevent all my joints from dislocating and it costs me $30 per appointment. imagine paying 1.5k per year just to live without your legs dislocating if you stand a little too long... I CAN'T EVEN GET A JOB BECAUSE IM DISABLED AND DISABILITY PAY IN THE US IS ABSOLUTELY F*CKED
THIS GENUINELY MAKES ME WISH I WAS NEVER BORN I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND
Load More Replies... Most of these are people complaining about the exo expenses of things that they do NOT need. I mean Modern "Art", bread from a fancy bread shop, Nintendo games, Fancy funerals and wedding receptions!! Wealthy people's problems!
true but sometimes annoyance is the mother of invention.
Load More Replies... Online subscription services for consoles- Older consoles with just as good online functionality can go online completely free and have free online multiplayer. These days you have to pay a stinking subscription fee for it. It's like they went "we don't need to charge you for this but huh you'll pay it let's do it". They're not that expensive I guess but considering it's a service they could offer for nothing, it's stupid
To be *at least slightly* fair to them, old online games were pretty much all peer to peer connections, the most the game really did was find your opponents. That's still common in PC games but console versions often set up central connections. I doubt it justifies the cost per person, but at least they also throw a bunch of free games in.
Load More Replies... Credit card and loan interest rates are way, way, way out of line, especially since banks give virtually no interest on deposits. I saw a US bank offering a 'generous' 0.5% interest rate recently and wondered how anyone could think that is OK. I live in South Asia. My new account has a 6.5% interest rate, which is actually quite low for here—but it sure beats the USA. I didn't even realize when I signed up for it that I could actually qualify for a savings account. When I was growing up, interest rates were more like 10%. 20 years ago, a jumbo CD brought in 20% interest. People complain about prices being high where I live, but I am paying $200 for a little cottage overlooking a lake, and maybe another $100 a month for food, so it's much more livable than the USA, Canada or Europe. I'm happy to live a simpler life. Medical and dental expenses are much more reasonable here, too.
I don't know how it is elsewhere, but most banks here make all their money on loan/credit card interest, with a smaller amount on fees and such. Despite it seeming like fewer people can afford things with their own money, I think it's also the case that fewer people can or will get credit cards, so they had to lower interest rates on cards, and offer Cashback benefits, meaning they also had to lower positive interest rates on debit accounts. That's really me taking a stab in the dark, but I know the only reason I signed up for a credit card at all was 2% cash back on purchases, and I do not plan to leave a balance to charge interest on.
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