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

frag420 · 03-05-2011 03:36PM

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 · 03-05-2011 03:37PM

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 · 03-05-2011 03:44PM

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 · 03-05-2011 03:47PM

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

Link

sbsquarepants · 03-05-2011 04:02PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:05PM

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. · 03-05-2011 04:06PM

Water will eventually become the new champagne

grenache · 03-05-2011 04:12PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:14PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:15PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:15PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:16PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:19PM

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

AnonoBoy · 03-05-2011 04:21PM

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

grenache · 03-05-2011 04:21PM

Doyler92 wrote: »

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

Meant to say 9 euro OR cheaper!

Rocket19 · 03-05-2011 04:27PM

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 · 03-05-2011 04:34PM

Printer ink.

Biggins · 03-05-2011 04:48PM

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 · 03-05-2011 05:12PM

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 · 03-05-2011 05:16PM

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

SeaFields · 03-05-2011 05:16PM

From work...Colief drops (for babies with colic)

Its €1700 a litre. Tiny bottle in the chemist will cost you around €20.

AnonoBoy · 03-05-2011 05:18PM

Rocket19 wrote: »

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.

Insomnia don't charge that much I don't think.

I pay 1.70 for a large Americano in my local coffee shop. And it's gorgeous coffee. Even the one beside where I work in town is only 2 euro.

I don't know what Starbucks cost. Their coffee is muck.

landsleaving · 03-05-2011 05:19PM

Cian A wrote: »

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

They sold bottles of that in SuperQuinn Blackrock for a while at about €100 a bottle, then it went to €50... I don't think anyone ever bought any.

Doyler92 · 03-05-2011 05:26PM

grenache wrote: »

Meant to say 9 euro OR cheaper!

Oh don't worry I knew that, this is AH after all.

MitchKoobski · 03-05-2011 05:40PM

Vending machine in work has bottles of Lucozade, Energize and Ribena. All €2 each. My Ribena addiction is slowly making my pocket lighter.

TheZohanS · 03-05-2011 05:51PM

baaaa wrote: »

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

What does it cost these days? Ages since I smoked it.

orourkeda · 03-05-2011 05:53PM

€30 for a blow job with no condom

Biggins · 03-05-2011 06:00PM

orourkeda wrote: »

€30 for a blow job with no condom

I'll tell me ma to lower her prices.

Martyn1989 · 03-05-2011 06:01PM

Bambi wrote: »

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

Yeh but then your missing out on the green band of comfort, not to mention no longer being like David Beckham!!!!

Biggins · 03-05-2011 06:02PM

Martyn1989 wrote: »

...not to mention no longer being like David Beckham!!!!

I would call that a blessing!

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

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