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The little things that cost too much

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    #122
    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Lukebray wrote: »
    The bus! It's €2.65 to get into town from where I live. And the service is ****e as well, buses every half hour. They should be coming every 15 minutes at least and there should be a flat fare of €2

    Try driving/taking a taxi/walking/cycling into town for that little and come back to us. I doubt you're going to find a cheaper route somehow. :)


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    #123
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Smokes!! 8.90 for my beloved superking blacks!
    It's made me start rolling my own although I'd say they'll hike up the price of rolling tobacco soon too :rolleyes:


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    #124
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Smokes!! 8.90 for my beloved superking blacks!
    It's made me start rolling my own although I'd say they'll hike up the price of rolling tobacco soon too :rolleyes:
    John Player does cigarettes you make yourself. Around €15.50 for 60 cigarettes in dosette form and the shells are around a euro for 100 of them.


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    #125
    gingernut125
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭gingernut125


    Fresh fruit and vegetables, I don't live near an aldi or lidl :(


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    #126
    molly09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭molly09


    totally agress with the Irish rail tickets......
    Shampoo/conditioner and other comestic products
    magazines are totally marked up here also
    mobile phone network charges
    fuel
    parking in some cities


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    #127
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    For a while now, I've taken pleasure in taking an item to a counter, asking the price, then saying 'nah, too expensive' and leaving it there.

    it's the little things....


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    #128
    Mr_Spaceman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭Mr_Spaceman


    Newspapers.

    Isn't it now €2.20 for the Irish Times? Buy that and, say, another paper or so at the weekend and it's pretty steep. You'd think the marketeers would try and curry favour with lapsed readers to lure them away from online reading.

    In NI, the Irish Times actually works out cheaper at £1.20, although any sales there are regarded as a bonus.


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    #129
    M three
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭M three


    gingernut125 wrote: »
    Fresh fruit and vegetables, I don't live near an aldi or lidl :(

    Cheaper veg in a fruit & veg shop or at your local market. Or better still if you can grow your own.
    Fruit & veg is cheaper in a fruit & veg shop than any of the supermarkets. And more chance of it coming from Ireland so you're supporting more irish jobs


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    #130
    leaveiton
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    166man wrote: »
    Try driving/taking a taxi/walking/cycling into town for that little and come back to us. I doubt you're going to find a cheaper route somehow. :)

    How exactly would walking or cycling be more expensive? :confused:

    I agree that bus fares are too expensive. Taxis or driving costs are too expensive as well, so the bus costing less doesn't mean an awful lot really.


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    #131
    M three
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭M three


    Yorkie chocolate bars. Or any chocolate bars.
    Was charged €1.15 for a yorkie a month ago in the applegreen in ashbourne.
    Robbing baxtards. The bar itself is also getting smaller


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    #132
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    KKkitty wrote: »
    John Player does cigarettes you make yourself. Around €15.50 for 60 cigarettes in dosette form and the shells are around a euro for 100 of them.

    I get around 30 smokes from a 12.5g pack of amber leaf for €4.75. I dont like having to make my own anyway. Id rather just take one out if a packet :o


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    #133
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    NegativeCreep wrote: »

    I get around 30 smokes from a 12.5g pack of amber leaf for €4.75. I dont like having to make my own anyway. Id rather just take one out if a packet :o
    I hate rolling my own but these cigarettes are easy to make up. My fella smokes them and they are strong enough.


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    #134
    M three
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭M three


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    For a while now, I've taken pleasure in taking an item to a counter, asking the price, then saying 'nah, too expensive' and leaving it there.

    it's the little things....

    Some poor minimum wage joe has to take that and put it back on the shelf.
    You're not making any statement there, as they person at the checkout in the vast majority of cases is not involved in setting the prices.

    Why dont you ask to speak to the owner or email their customer service if you think something is too expensive?


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    #135
    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    leaveiton wrote: »
    How exactly would walking or cycling be more expensive? :confused:

    I agree that bus fares are too expensive. Taxis or driving costs are too expensive as well, so the bus costing less doesn't mean an awful lot really.

    Walking from Bray to town would be far too expensive in terms of the labour cost. It would take hours therefore not feasible. Cycling is much the same, unless the poster is super-fit and has a very decent bicycle.

    It means quite an awful lot that the bus is the cheapest actually... Taxi or driving your own car would be costing far more and with the bus you just pay the fare and it brings you there without any worries of parking or anything like that. You can buy a 7 days ticket for the bus or a leap card too which saves quite a bit on each fare too. :)

    As someone else mentioned above, mobile phone charges are another thing that's a joke in this country. 13c to send one text is just plain ridiculous.


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    #136
    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Larianne wrote: »

    It's yellow in some parts of Mayo... :(

    That's not a tap!


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    #137
    NegativeCreep
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    KKkitty wrote: »
    I hate rolling my own but these cigarettes are easy to make up. My fella smokes them and they are strong enough.

    I'll give them a go and see what the Craic is. 15 quid is still expensive though :L


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    #138
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    NegativeCreep wrote: »

    I'll give them a go and see what the Craic is. 15 quid is still expensive though :L
    It's about €5 per 20 cigarettes if my maths are correct? Give them a try anyway.


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    #139
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    166man wrote: »
    Walking from Bray to town would be far too expensive in terms of the labour cost. It would take hours therefore not feasible. Cycling is much the same, unless the poster is super-fit and has a very decent bicycle.

    It means quite an awful lot that the bus is the cheapest actually... Taxi or driving your own car would be costing far more and with the bus you just pay the fare and it brings you there without any worries of parking or anything like that. You can buy a 7 days ticket for the bus or a leap card too which saves quite a bit on each fare too. :)

    As someone else mentioned above, mobile phone charges are another thing that's a joke in this country. 13c to send one text is just plain ridiculous.

    Inconvenient is not the same as expensive, though. With somewhere like Bray then yeah, the bus would be the best option, I'm not disputing that. Simply saying that just because it's cheaper than taking the car, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's cheap.


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    #140
    166man
    Registered Users Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    leaveiton wrote: »
    Inconvenient is not the same as expensive, though. With somewhere like Bray then yeah, the bus would be the best option, I'm not disputing that. Simply saying that just because it's cheaper than taking the car, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's cheap.

    Of course, but relative to the other options, it's the best choice he can make if saving money is a priority.


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    #141
    twirlagig
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    Tampax, Sanitary towels etc. A bit cheaper than they used to be, but still too dear for what are 'essential' items... :mad:


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    #142
    Faith+1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    For a while now, I've taken pleasure in taking an item to a counter, asking the price, then saying 'nah, too expensive' and leaving it there.

    it's the little things....

    You really need a girlfriend.


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    #143
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    For a while now, I've taken pleasure in taking an item to a counter, asking the price, then saying 'nah, too expensive' and leaving it there.

    it's the little things....
    The staff don't set the prices. Bit of a cuntish thing to do TBH.


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    #144
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    The last half inch!


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    #145
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Blow Jobs with no condoms.

    They're looking for mad money these days


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    #146
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    wyndham wrote: »
    Garlic sauce in takeaways. €1.50-€2 in some places. For 10c worth of sauce.
    Ditto bacon on your burger.
    Just bring your own in a small bottle.... sorted.

    Same with cheese slices for your burger. :)

    One well known truckers restaurant at Three Ways Australia use to charge 50c for a sachet of vinegar and 10c for salt. :eek:

    They could get away with it because the nearest supermarket was several hundred miles away.


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    #147
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Broadband.


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    #148
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    MaxSteele wrote: »
    Repeat exam papers in colleges.

    Yeah I'm sure it really costs €70 in admin fees for some fat aul wan in the department office to press her sausage fingers on a mouse click no more than five times when she's supposed to be there working anyway.
    And the invigilators work for free, there's no cost for providing / heating a venue, or for corrections or externing or uploading marks etc. etc.?


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    #149
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    longshanks wrote: »
    Broadband.

    Not as bad as it used to in Dial Up 56K days, it was charged by the minute, service was sh*te and people didnt stay on line for long. There was one Net Cafe in Ennis that use to charge about 5 old money for half an hour,


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    #150
    maninasia
    Registered Users Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭maninasia


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Smokes!! 8.90 for my beloved superking blacks!
    It's made me start rolling my own although I'd say they'll hike up the price of rolling tobacco soon too :rolleyes:

    Just thought I'd make you feel better and let you know decent smokes are 1.20 where I live. That's the good ones mind you!


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    #151
    kneemos
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    80c for a packet of crisps


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