Whats the most daily item you've seen at a crazy expensive price?

Biggins

Whats the most daily item you've seen at a crazy expensive price?

The reason I ask is because I was at the Point in Dublin last night (Peter Kay. funny but FAR, far too short for money paid) and was the usual lads with their bottle bags on their backs and trying to see Smirnoff Ice at €7 a bottle - which I thought was a crazy price. Needless to say there was very few takers.

Anyway, that put the further thought in my head, besides (or including) drink, whats the most over priced daily consumed or daily spotted item you might have seen recently?

DrumSteve

Bottles and cans of coke.

Totally arbirtrary pricing.

whiskeyman

Popcorn and any other food and drink at a cinema.

maglite

Petrol?

dvpower

Biggins wrote: »

Anyway, that put the further thought in my head, besides (or including) drink, whats the most over over priced daily consumed item you might have seen recently?

If you're going to be consuming Snirnoff Ice every day, €7 a bottle is far too expensive.

Biggins

dvpower wrote: »

If you're going to be consuming Smirnoff Ice every day, €7 a bottle is far too expensive.

Good point.
Should have said "consumed or seen..."
Will edit above.

Morlar

Booking a play at the Gaeity. If you walk to the boxoffice there is no extra charge. If you use ticketmaster's automated system there is a €7.50 surcharge for 2 tickets. €7.50 to use an automated system or free to buy from a person.

starviewadams

Rolls at lunchtime,can't believe I used to (and some people still do) pay €4 something for a bit of ham and tomato on a stale roll,I'm a lunchbox man now though!

FesterBeatty

Second hand tampons - they're a bloody rip off!

dj jarvis

a few year back now but once picked up crumbed ham in tescos , 4 slices
and guess how much it was priced at ???

5.70 :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
so thats 1.42 per slice !!!! - thieving blastards :mad:

i would not pay that even if it was albino unicorn ham

**** tescos

aido179

HDMI cables.
Tickets to the Trinity ball (im not a trinners student though)
Drink at any festival.

but most of all:
Accomodation in Galway city. (can't speak for the rest of the country but for what you get, its daylight robbery)

Biggins

Morlar wrote: »

Booking a play at the Gaeity. If you walk to the boxoffice there is no extra charge. If you use ticketmaster's automated system there is a €7.50 surcharge for 2 tickets. €7.50 to use an automated system or free to buy from a person.

Totally agree with that one and that practise is becoming more wide-scale.
Rip-Off Ireland still exists.

Martyn1989

The one that stands out has to be razor blades, a documentary I saw a few years ago said Gillette razor blades are the most shoplifted item ever......
Still the prices of Gillette razor blades is €16 for 5 or something (cant remember exactly, stocked up ages ago)

Korvanica

Spar near me... Kinder Bueno... 1.30

WHAT THE HELL!!!

aido179

Martyn1989 wrote: »

The one that stands out has to be razor blades, a documentary I saw a few years ago said Gillette razor blades are the most shoplifted item ever......
Still the prices of Gillette razor blades is €16 for 5 or something (cant remember exactly, stocked up ages ago)

forgot about those. The actual blade must be a precious metal. gram for gram I wonder how they compare to gold and silver

irishejit

DrumSteve wrote: »

Bottles and cans of coke.

Totally arbirtrary pricing.

Completely agree with you here.

In nearly all of my local shops its £1.19 for a 500ml bottle of coke, however a 2l bottle is £1.25??????

Susie_Q

Bell peppers are €1 each in my local SuperValu. A bag of spinach is about €4. Crazy prices, I won't pay them.

Biggins

Minerals is another one.
For example: Just in the Point last night - and previous nights I was there - they were charging €3 for a mineral.
Same size bottle you can buy in most newsagents for €1 - and at €1 they are still making a profit even if it is a small one.

Gummy Panda

Korvanica wrote: »

Spar near me... Kinder Bueno... 1.30

WHAT THE HELL!!!

Lucozade is the same. Can of Lucozade (regular not sport) is around €1.30. I was thinking this is strange considering in soft drinks Coca-Cola is probably no.1 so wouldn't you want to at least price match them.

Martyn1989

aido179 wrote: »

forgot about those. The actual blade must be a precious metal. gram for gram I wonder how they compare to gold and silver

Forget that, all the money is being spent on that green stripe of eucalyptis extract or whatever it is infront of the blades. Supposed to make it a smooter shave, but then why are they trying to get us to buy pre shave scrub and aftershave lotion AND aftershave moisturiser, not to mention just regular aftershave.
Also they put that single blade on the back, for edges and stuff, not necessary, dosnt even work.
Im getting a cut throat :cool:

GavRedKing

Has to be petrol for me anyway.

Susie_Q

Remembered one that really surprised me lately - went to a Spar and saw a Turkish Delight bar, haven't had one in years so decided to buy it. It was very small and square, about half the size of a regular chocolate bar, and it scanned in at €1.20. Needless to say I didn't eat Turkish that day after all.

pragmatic1

Martyn1989 wrote: »

The one that stands out has to be razor blades, a documentary I saw a few years ago said Gillette razor blades are the most shoplifted item ever......
Still the prices of Gillette razor blades is €16 for 5 or something (cant remember exactly, stocked up ages ago)

+1. They are ridiculously expensive.
Cigarettes for me.

petebricquette

Breakfast cereal. In the Centra across the road from me, a regular-sized box of cereal can be anywhere from €4 to €5. Robbery. Although, Centra seem to be among the more expensive chains.

whiskeyman

Bottled water

Cigarettes in Ireland.. Thank god I only pay about 60cent a pack here.
Most overpriced thing where I am is literally everything if you can't or are too lazy to haggle. My best was a pair of shoes from $81 to $12.

Dyr

Martyn1989 wrote: »

The one that stands out has to be razor blades, a documentary I saw a few years ago said Gillette razor blades are the most shoplifted item ever......
Still the prices of Gillette razor blades is €16 for 5 or something (cant remember exactly, stocked up ages ago)

check the shaving.ie thread..16 euros for nearly a years supply of these bad boys http://www.shaving.ie/products/100-Astra-Superior-Platinum-DE-Blades-Carton.html

Raze_them_all

Cost of razor blades is the reason for my manly beard.

Pace2008

In Ibiza superclubs, bottled water is about €8, bottles of beer around €10, and double vodka with red bull up to €25.

me-skywalker

I think Spar are way more expensive than Centra!

RichieC

Razors.

frag420

aido179 wrote: »

HDMI cables.
Tickets to the Trinity ball (im not a trinners student though)
Drink at any festival.

but most of all:
Accomodation in Galway city. (can't speak for the rest of the country but for what you get, its daylight robbery)

Should have stayed at night then eh!!

munchkin_utd

Biggins wrote: »

Minerals is another one.
For example: Just in the Point last night - and previous nights I was there - they were charging €3 for a mineral.
Same size bottle you can buy in most newsagents for €1 - and at €1 they are still making a profit even if it is a small one.

€3 for a half litre sounds about right, cheap even, especially for an event.
Paid 2.60 for a small (180ml?) coke in Dublin in a regular not posh pub there on sunday night.

It drove me to the beer so it did!

rainbowdrop

My local petrol station (Xpress Stop):Brennans Bread - €2.30
My local supervalu: Brennans Bread - €1.50

80c in the difference, even though they are only 2mins drive from each other!!

Local nightclub is €5/€7 for normal nights, but they charge €12 for the teenage disco's (and only sell full bar price minerals). My 14 year old daughter goes to the 'nappy nights' but pays for herself from money she earns babysitting cos there is no fcuking way I'd pay it for her.......

Doyler92

I seen a bottle of water in Superquinn for €45.

Link

sbsquarepants

Doyler92 wrote: »

I seen a bottle of water in Superquinn for €45.

Link

Anyone who buys this deserves to be beaten to death with the bottle!

Doyler92

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Anyone who buys this deserves to be beaten to death with the bottle!

You got that one right. You can only imagine someone who hardly sees the light of day buying this, only to put on the fireplace or something and stare at it when they are in the sitting room.

fedor.2.

Water will eventually become the new champagne

grenache

Petrol in a Limerick suburb at 158c on Sunday night. Disgraceful.

Bottles of Singha 330ml thai lager at E2.95 in a local off licence of mine. RRP on this product is E1.99 :eek:

A while back Centra were doing Carlsberg 6 pack bottles for 11.50 when everywhere else was 9 euro or cheaper.

enda1

Condoms are stupidly expensive for what they are.

Can never understand why they're not given out almost (if not) free because of their obvious benefit in preventing disease and unwanted pregnancies.

Raze_them_all

grenache wrote: »

Petrol in a Limerick suburb at 158c on Sunday night. Disgraceful.

Bottles of Singha 330ml thai lager at E2.95 in a local off licence of mine. RRP on this product is E1.99 :eek:

A while back Centra were doing Carlsberg 6 pack bottles for 11.50 when everywhere else was 9 euro cheaper.

2.50 a 6 pack. How are you still sober? :P

Doyler92

grenache wrote: »

Petrol in a Limerick suburb at 158c on Sunday night. Disgraceful.

Bottles of Singha 330ml thai lager at E2.95 in a local off licence of mine. RRP on this product is E1.99 :eek:

A while back Centra were doing Carlsberg 6 pack bottles for 11.50 when everywhere else was 9 euro cheaper.

Carlsberg 6 pack of bottles was only 2.50 every where else :eek:

NewFrockTuesday

About 3 years ago in the coffee/ juice bar in Arnotts. They wanted €3.50 for a regular coffee to take out. I was too embarrassed to hand over that kind of money so I asked if I could just leave it as I found it to be too expensive, but if not I would pay it.

If I had grabbed the nearest child in the q and hit it a wallop, I dont think I could have gotten a dirtier look. I didnt blame her as she had it made, but I thought it would be maybe....€2 and something plus - not €3.50.

Plate of pasta with tomato sauce one night in temple bar was €14 plus odd pence - cant rem exact price. Was gobsmacked. I work in catering. I knows the mark ups!

baaaa

What about the price of grass these days?-it's doubled recently.

AnonoBoy

I saw a smallish tin of sardines that was priced at nearly 5 euro in Fallon & Byrne a while back.

grenache

Doyler92 wrote: »

Carlsberg 6 pack of bottles was only 2.50 every where else :eek:

Meant to say 9 euro OR cheaper!

Rocket19

NewFrockTuesday wrote: »

About 3 years ago in the coffee/ juice bar in Arnotts. They wanted €3.50 for a regular coffee to take out.

That's standard though. Are you from Dublin?

A regular coffee in any of the coffee chains (Costa/Starbucks/Butlers/Insomnia/) will set you back over €3.

PaulKK

Printer ink.

Biggins

munchkin_utd wrote: »

€3 for a half litre sounds about right, cheap even, especially for an event...

€3 Euro's for a standard small hand size 500ml bottle that outside in a shop you can buy for one Euro and you think its fair?
I still think its a massive jump no matter what!

You can buy 2x2 Litre bottles of same in a supermarket for same €3 (and they are making a profit on those!).
Allowing for even a small mark-up on a single much smaller 500ml individual bottle, its a hell of a profit added on in some venues!

galah

petrol and takeaway pizza.
I mean, 16 quid for a rubbery pizza? really?

Oh, and inner-city corpo parking - 2.60 for an hour in Galway city center - they got to be joking!

cat food is up there as well - Tesco upped the price of the stuff our cats eat to 7.89 per box. Guess who's not getting the nice stuff anymore...

Eathrin

I suppose this is rather expensive...

http://www.blingh2o.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=95&osCsid=ktm8me8fitguavhatb3lhc1cb2

...for water


and a couple extras