Shít that people pay over-the-odds for

Wanderer78 · 17-09-2018 10:33am

Markcheese wrote:

To be fair, almost all of the price is tax of one firm or another... They don't get to do much advertising or marketing anymore... As to why anyone actually smokes them though is beyond me...

We ve had enough exposure to the lies of marketing to promote that industry, but their mere presents is a form of advertisement, it is a highly addictive substance after all.

whisky_galore · 17-09-2018 10:34am

Gemma Drab Semifinalist wrote: »

Tap water in Ireland is muck. I don't care is some report says it's the best water in Europe, it's still muck.

Now, if you have your own well, that's a different story.

It's grand in that you don't get the scutters after drinking it generally speaking unlike some other countries.

whisky_galore · 17-09-2018 10:37am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

We ve had enough exposure to the lies of marketing to promote that industry, but their mere presents is a form of advertisement, it is a highly addictive substance after all.

Everyone knows how bad it is at this stage yet new batches of eejits still take up smoking.

BrokenArrows · 17-09-2018 10:38am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Haven't bought a phone in well over 10 years, you d be surprised what people call rubbish

I have phones that are 20 years old and still work. Doesnt mean they are not rubbish.

Graces7 · 17-09-2018 10:39am

kevthegaff wrote: »

Buy a bale of a hay of a farmer for 3 euros, that will see them out..

You beat me to it.

I used to ask when my dogs needed a hay bed. As it was just for bedding I got last years and free.

Any saw mill will be glad to get rid of shavings, sawdust etc.

Shanotheslayer · 17-09-2018 10:42am

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Haven't bought a phone in well over 10 years, you d be surprised what people call rubbish

Your phone is rubbish compared to the latest ones.

Graces7 · 17-09-2018 10:44am

Gemma Drab Semifinalist wrote: »

Tap water in Ireland is muck. I don't care is some report says it's the best water in Europe, it's still muck.

Now, if you have your own well, that's a different story.

Yep; has to be treated though,Last rental I had with a well the water stank of rotten eggs. One after that was from a mountain stream that ran through a cattle yard and the owner went mental when I asked was it potable... On mains here and it is grand

The figures on EPA re pollution in domestic wells is scary.

ohnonotgmail · 17-09-2018 10:44am

why are people using hay for bedding? should they not be using straw?

Graces7 · 17-09-2018 10:45am

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Serves you right for buying stupid pets.
I think its time for the critters to "escape" and have escaped to a "better" life.
The kids will get over it.

:eek:

17-09-2018 10:45am

Property.

The fact that people are queuing up all over again, to buy over-priced property in this country, will mean that a huge amount of cash will (once again) be sucked out of the economy over a 25 year period.

As someone mentioned on boards before one time, if a buyer borrows €250,000 over 25 years @ 4% rate of interest, they will eventually be paying back €395,000 over the term of the loan.

This of course, is not reflected on the price tag on the house when it is advertised in the estate agents.
So while people will complain about having over-paid for concert tickets, cars, hair-dos etc, no one will mention the elephant in the room.

whisky_galore · 17-09-2018 10:46am

Almost anything called 'Artisan' this or 'Gourmet' that.

High end restaurant meals that are tiny artistic splodges on the plate.

E-voting machines.

Most designer gear, pretty much all made in Asian sweatshops for pennies.

Brand name foods, often produced side by side in the same factory as the supermarket own brands.

filbert the fox · 17-09-2018 10:52am

Gemma Drab Semifinalist wrote: »

Tap water in Ireland is muck. I don't care is some report says it's the best water in Europe, it's still muck.

Now, if you have your own well, that's a different story.

yes, the entire population are suffering terribly

Zebra3 · 17-09-2018 10:56am

Politicans’ pensions.

razorblunt · 17-09-2018 10:57am

Clothes, especially designer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an advocate of "buy everything in Penney's" but there's a middle ground there somewhere.

All trainers, especially Nike though.

xzanti · 17-09-2018 10:58am

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Serves you right for buying stupid pets.
I think its time for the critters to "escape" and have escaped to a "better" life.
The kids will get over it.

I wouldn't. They are very much loved.

Weepsie · 17-09-2018 10:58am

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Its called inflation. Prices usually increase over time.
iphone 4 was released 8 years ago.

Still overpriced but the increase isnt strange.

The inflation in that time should be about a €50 quid increase. You've to go back 20 years for €1000 now to be €700 then. So it's some inflation, but it's marketing, and all that working.

whisky_galore · 17-09-2018 11:02am

Tickets sold by touts. They should be boycotted.

Junk sold in 'vintage' shops.

FixdePitchmark · 17-09-2018 11:05am

IKEA

Your Face · 17-09-2018 11:05am

Delivery charges.

StupidLikeAFox · 17-09-2018 11:06am

Deleted User wrote: »

Property.

The fact that people are queuing up all over again, to buy over-priced property in this country, will mean that a huge amount of cash will (once again) be sucked out of the economy over a 25 year period.

As someone mentioned on boards before one time, if a buyer borrows €250,000 over 25 years @ 4% rate of interest, they will eventually be paying back €395,000 over the term of the loan.

This of course, is not reflected on the price tag on the house when it is advertised in the estate agents.
So while people will complain about having over-paid for concert tickets, cars, hair-dos etc, no one will mention the elephant in the room.

You might have a point about property itself being overpriced, but a mortgage is likely the cheapest money you will ever borrow. That is a low interest rate, and over the life of the mortgage a lot of the cost of the mortgage is wiped out by inflation.

To use your own example, a house bought 35 years ago might have cost 25k, and over the lifetime of the mortgage would have cost 39.5k in total - small money in todays terms. Mortgages are also currently cheaper than renting for the most part and they allow you to build equity in an asset.

BrokenArrows · 17-09-2018 11:06am

Weepsie wrote: »

The inflation in that time should be about a €50 quid increase. You've to go back 20 years for €1000 now to be €700 then. So it's some inflation, but it's marketing, and all that working.

The products are not made in ireland so Irish inflation has very little to do with it.

They are made in china by US owned companies. Chinas inflation is much higher.
The Euro to USD exchange rate also effects the price.

So say 600 euro in 2010 made Apple $860 USD. The exchange rate has changed so now 750 euro only makes Apple $855 USD.

So in 10 years apple is making roughly the same money in dollars even though its costs more in euros.

EdgeCase · 17-09-2018 11:09am

Jewellery, watches and handbags. It's unbelievable what some people will pay for a bit of 'bling'.

filbert the fox · 17-09-2018 11:14am

Tea

I teabag .000000000000000000001 cent

cuppa €3

Stone Deaf 4evr · 17-09-2018 11:23am

Graces7 wrote: »

You beat me to it. I used to ask when my dogs needed a hay bed. As it was just for bedding I got last years and free.

Any saw mill will be glad to get rid of shavings, sawdust etc.

A saw mill? they're not exactly on every street corner now are they?

17-09-2018 11:25am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

A saw mill? they're not exactly on every street corner now are they?

Set up your own saw-mill, you layabout

Free hamster bedding for life

Feisar · 17-09-2018 11:28am

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

IKEA

No, it's good value for money however you go in for a teapot and come out with a starting handle for a '57 Morris Minor and a load of assorted other tat.

valoren · 17-09-2018 11:32am

Feisar · 17-09-2018 11:32am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

A saw mill? they're not exactly on every street corner now are they?

Fair lot of them around, just google saw mill and your town.

jester77 · 17-09-2018 11:38am

Women's cosmetics

Feck me, but they must be seriously gullible to pay those prices :eek:

ceegee · 17-09-2018 11:40am

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Supermarkets chains enforce the wastage of an insanely large amount of food by demanding uniform sizing and shapes of fruit and veg.

An oddly shaped tomato is just as good as a regular round one.

Don't most of the odd shaped ones just get used as ingredients for processed foods?
Also it's more a case of the buying public enforcing the wastage, can't blame supermarkets for not wanting to stock something that won't be bought

17-09-2018 11:45am

ceegee wrote: »

Don't most of the odd shaped ones just get used as ingredients for processed foods?

No, my neighbour used to dump his rejected crop; even selling them at markets barely made a dent in what the supermarkets rejected.

You're right that consumers need to accept some responsibility here, though.

duffman3833 · 17-09-2018 11:55am

branded products such as kitchen roll, washing liquids etc why pay €8 for 2 kitchen roll when a store brand for a 1/4 price does same job, baffles me
Some branded foods do taste better but a lot of cheaper store brand items taste the same

freshpopcorn · 17-09-2018 12:03pm

Our local Delicatessen/cafe charges mad prices for meat/salads/cakes and it's nothing special. Yet locals can't get enough of it.

mikemac2 · 17-09-2018 12:04pm

Handbags

I don’t understand why some cost 200 never mind 2,000 !

K.Flyer · 17-09-2018 12:10pm

Handbags, who in their right mind pays thousands, or tens of thousands, for a handbag?

17-09-2018 12:12pm

mikemac2 wrote: »

Handbags

I don’t understand why some cost 200 never mind 2,000 !

K.Flyer wrote: »

Handbags, who in their right mind pays thousands, or tens of thousands, for a handbag?

'Fur coat, no knickers' comes to mind.

Discodog · 17-09-2018 12:15pm

IPhone €1000
Xiaomi Pocophone €300

The difference is Xiaomi don't spend money on marketing & don't look to make a huge profit.

But it's the iPhone owner who is perceived as the clever one.

Peatys · 17-09-2018 12:18pm

B-D-P-- wrote: »

Soft, I use a rusty Stanley blade.

Soft, i use a sharpened rock

Peatys · 17-09-2018 12:20pm

murpho999 wrote: »

Also, I like to have Sky Sports properly not streamed and this is the best way.

Have you tried Ace Streams?

ginandtonicsky · 17-09-2018 12:21pm

jester77 wrote: »

Women's cosmetics

Feck me, but they must be seriously gullible to pay those prices :eek:

Burns a perpetual hole in my pocket.

Skincare takes the biscuit.

Paid €60 for a small tub of moisturiser last night. For a full skincare routine, you've got cleanser, toner, eye cream, moisturiser, acid peels and sheet masks, deep clay cleansers all of which can cost multiple hundreds of quid depending on the brand.

And that's before you get to the anti-aging stuff, because there's of course a premium on women for daring to get older, the cheeky bastids. Prescription retinoids, otc retinol, vit C serums....

Eggs For Dinner · 17-09-2018 12:21pm

The HSE is the worst value for the money spent on it

Guy:Incognito · 17-09-2018 12:23pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Property.

The fact that people are queuing up all over again, to buy over-priced property in this country, will mean that a huge amount of cash will (once again) be sucked out of the economy over a 25 year period.

As someone mentioned on boards before one time, if a buyer borrows €250,000 over 25 years @ 4% rate of interest, they will eventually be paying back €395,000 over the term of the loan.

This of course, is not reflected on the price tag on the house when it is advertised in the estate agents.
So while people will complain about having over-paid for concert tickets, cars, hair-dos etc, no one will mention the elephant in the room.

The price is the price. How you going about getting the money to buy it is your own business. If you have cash in the bank then you're only paying the 250000.

moonage · 17-09-2018 12:23pm

Most stuff on QVC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wHb4iHj79Y

TheShow · 17-09-2018 12:24pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

Burns a perpetual hole in my pocket.

Skincare takes the biscuit.
For a full skincare routine, you've got cleanser, toner, eye cream, moisturiser, acid peels and sheet masks, deep clay cleansers all of which can cost multiple hundreds of quid depending on the brand. .

Not true, that’s what the marketing dept has told you that you need and you believe them.

storker · 17-09-2018 12:25pm

Women's hairdressing - or at least, cutting.

Recently I was saying to my wife that I can get my hair cut at home on a Saturday for €10 in town during the week for €18, which is handier, but €18 seems a bit too much. She burst out laughing... "Haircut...€18 too much...funniest thing ever..." etc.

sbsquarepants · 17-09-2018 12:29pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

Burns a perpetual hole in my pocket.

Skincare takes the biscuit.

Paid €60 for a small tub of moisturiser last night. For a full skincare routine, you've got cleanser, toner, eye cream, moisturiser, acid peels and sheet masks, deep clay cleansers all of which can cost multiple hundreds of quid depending on the brand.

And that's before you get to the anti-aging stuff, because there's of course a premium on women for daring to get older, the cheeky bastids. Prescription retinoids, otc retinol, vit C serums....

It's all a complete waste of time and money do you not think. Your average 50 year old woman after maybe 35 years of these "treatments", looks much the same age as a 50 year old bloke who's done without them!

17-09-2018 12:34pm

Almond milk alias cosmic joy.

nice_guy80 · 17-09-2018 12:34pm

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

The HSE is the worst value for the money spent on it

I don't agree
But there are problems with it

An awful lot of it caused by patients not turning up for appointmenta

Lady Haywire · 17-09-2018 12:36pm

Graces7 wrote: »

You beat me to it. I used to ask when my dogs needed a hay bed. As it was just for bedding I got last years and free.

Any saw mill will be glad to get rid of shavings, sawdust etc.

Not free, pay by the trailer for it. It's trucked off to factories to be packed up as horse bedding/mdf/fake meat.

ginandtonicsky · 17-09-2018 12:39pm

sbsquarepants wrote: »

It's all a complete waste of time and money do you not think. Your average 50 year old woman after maybe 35 years of these "treatments", looks much the same age as a 50 year old bloke who's done without them!

Nah good skincare can definitely make a real difference, especially if it includes a high SPF and something like a prescription retinoid, which is proven to have an effect on wrinkles etc.

A 50 year old guy who has never so much as moisturised in his life is going to look a lot more haggard and old than a woman who has spent her life doing so.

But yeah, total money-making racket when it comes to just how much some brands want to charge you for basic products, that are then promoted to you by reputable dermatologists and salons as if we all have thousands to burn on our faces every year.

Shít that people pay over-the-odds for

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