BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:59 PM

Powdered milk. CAD$22 for about a kilo (enough to make up 6L wet)

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:50 PM

Bill D & co., it's those stupid 'bubble packs' they sell things in that are where so many of the bad deals crop up.   You want to go to the hardware or paint store and buy a box of 100 blades. You get stuck with a lifetime supply, but it's for the price of a couple of little ripoff packs.

Similar to buying a few screws & bolts in a bubble pack instead of having the hardware guy count some out of a bin for you.

Baker's yeast is like $3 a pound in bulk and $22 and up if you buy it in those little envelopes.

Spices sold in little bottles by the major companies. Ridiculous compared to bulk.

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 01:05 AM

Not the price in particular, but here in Canada it really used to piss me off, especially because I had two daughters, that sanitary napkins and tampons were taxed. You paid an extra tax in this country because your offspring were born female instead of male.

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: GUEST,Metchosin
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:58 AM

You too Bill D? I paid, with taxes, over $12 Canadian for a container of 10 ordinary razor blades, the other day. I couldn't believe it. I know it has been a long time since I've purchased them, but I'm sure that is way beyond accounting for inflation over the years. The damned thing was, I only needed one. Any takers on buying the surplus from me?

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:52 AM

yep...good choices. What else? Household products? Food? Clothes? I can get 'most' shoes a a decent price...but they're made in China, and the hidden costs may pop up some day.

Autos? Appliances?

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Jul 05 - 12:38 AM

Super size razor blades...as in Mach 3......$12 for 4 of them! And they never go on sale either.

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:59 PM

Condoms! I mean, like, how much difference is there between a condom and a kid's birthday party balloon? Not much. They're both made from basically the same stuff using more or less the same manufacturing process. So why are kids' balloons a buck for a bagful while condoms are a buck apiece?

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:50 PM

I am old enough to remember jujubes at four for a penny. Now, they cost about 20 to 40 times that. Inflation at its ugliest.

Subject: RE: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: dianavan
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:25 PM

Saline solution from the pharmacy. What a rip-off!

Subject: BS: fair & UNfair prices- nominations
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jul 05 - 08:20 PM

I suppose I might have titled this 'reasonable' and 'unreasonable' if there were room.

I have had this topic in mind for quite awhile, but something finally pushed me to start it.

What products do you consider to be fairly and reasonably priced? or not! I am NOT looking for just high prices or just for things which seem to be bargains, but rather for items whose everyday price appears to you to reflect manufacturing cost plus a reasonable markup.

I have long felt that items like shampoo and toothpaste and soap were pretty fairly priced, while items like breakfast cereal and candy bars have moved into the exhorbitant and ridiculous range. Even computers have become 'reasonable', even if you can't quite afford a new one every year.

But the item that hit me recently was razor blades....plain, ordinary single-edged razor blades that my wife uses for craft projects and I use in hand-held scrapers and cutters in my shop. In the CVS (big drug store/pharmacy chain) a pack of 10 blades was $4.99!!!! I know that they are not the big item they once were, but I do NOT believe that price is justified by marketing and manufacturing costs. Same with average size candy bars...and I will NOT spend a dollar to buy a pint bottle of WATER!

so...what nominations do you have for rip-offs and decent prices...whether large or small?

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