10 Items That Are Ridiculously Overpriced

[The Joker]

1. Gillette Mach 3 razor blades
2. Rolex
3. Cinema popcorn
4. Creed aftershave
5. Hermes H belt buckle
6. London Transport
7. iPhone
8. Hodinkee Travel Clock
9. Da Vinci - Salvator Mundi
10. Bentley Bentayga Breitling dash clock


And go

[HenryCA]

1. Cell phone bill- family plan and all that good stuff is enough for a small car payment.

2. Satellite TV bill- forced to get it since local TV is almost obsolete.

3. Internet bill- high cost and if you use it a lot they will slow down your speed.

4. Rolex- this is a luxury item so I get it but with the prices as of 2020, it is way beyond just overpriced.

5. Canada Goose- almost bought this for winter but I'm from California so I didn't pull the trigger this winter. What once was an affordable lifetime coat is now a luxury brand.

6. Cigarettes- I know it's a filthy habit but it's at $10/pack

7. Razors- this is by far the biggest scam in the world. I have a fancy double edge razor and get my little blades for a lot cheaper. Made in Germany razor that is mechanical.

8. Printer Ink- same as razors.

9. Montblanc refills or ink. Do you guys really have to charge $15 for a rollerball refill?

10. Everything is overpriced in clothing retail. I don't shop or buy unless I see a big discount sign. Even with discount that is what they intended to charge. They mark it up but they want the consumer feel they got a discount.

For example....a nice Banana Republic coat, they practice this a lot, is marked up $500 so they can do the 50% off and get the consumer to buy at what it's most likely a $250 based off branding. When I buy these items I like to look where it's made and I like to inspect the cut and stitching.

[daveathall]

Car parking in York.

iPhone.

Christmas selection box.

Petrol.

Full Sky TV Package.

First or Club class air travel.

I will have a further think and add.

[Goin2drt]

1. Gas in Kalifornia, ok pretty much anything there.
2. SS Daytona on the gray market, ok pretty much any SS from a gray.
3. Printer ink like above
4. Jim Beam coffee
5. Anything from LV and Hermès
6. I am sure there are others but can’t think of them.

[.brian.]

Cologne/perfume

[HenryCA]

Originally Posted by Goin2drt

1. Gas in Kalifornia, ok pretty much anything there.
2. SS Daytona on the gray market, ok pretty much any SS from a gray.
3. Printer ink like above
4. Jim Beam coffee
5. Anything from LV and Hermès
6. I am sure there are others but can’t think of them.

LV is pretty fair for what it is. I got a wallet for a tad over $400.

Their bags and luggage is something else though. I'm not buying those and I'm not buying for any ladies.

[Screwly]

Originally Posted by HenryCA

LV is pretty fair for what it is. I got a wallet for a tad over $400.

Their bags and luggage is something else though. I'm not buying those and I'm not buying for any ladies.

I agree LV is reasonable relatively speaking. When I was wallet shopping I found out goyard is pretty ridiculously priced.

[BreguetRolex]

1 Leica M10R

2 Leica M10

3 Leica SL

4 Leica SL2

5 Leica 50MM F/0.95 Noctilux

6 Leica 75MM F/1.25 Noctilux

7 Nikon D6

8 Nikon D5

9 Nikon 800MM F/5.6 FLED VR

10 Nikon 600MM F/4 FLED VR

[AzPaul]

1) Event tickets

[brandrea]

Chewing gum

[AK797]

Cigars and Cigarettes in the UK are a joke, almost 80% are just taxes and why they are 3/4 times more pricey than in the USA. Cigarettes I can understand, but cigars are not nearly as lethal but classed the same just for the easy cash.

[-dustin]

jerky

[CashGap]

Wow, I have to disagree on iPhone, and to some extent, cellphone bill.

I get the top of the line iPhone once per year for something like $65/month on the Apple upgrade plan. At the end of twelve months, turn it in for one 50% to 75% faster.

So, for $2 per day...

1 - A device I use perhaps fifteen times per waking hour.
2 - A device that I could, in a pinch, do every bit of my work duties on.
3 - A device that can provide 100% of my music, TV, video, reading.
4 - An excellent advance replacement warranty even if I drop and break it.
5 - Performance that is usually superior to laptops of about one year before.
6 - Ability to cast via several technologies to a TV as a monitor, and ability to use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for more productivity.
7 - A ton of productivity software, again enough to perform all of my work duties.
8 - A timekeeper that exhibits +/- 0.0000 accuracy.
9 - Games, etc., though this is not my thing.
10 - Instant access to every photo I have ever taken, every email sent/received, every file I maintain.
11 - Multiple forms of safe contactless payment.
12 - Full control of my entire home, all locks, security, thermostats, cameras.
13 - Ability to locate, lock, unlock, start my vehicles.
14 - Excellent photo and video editing.
15 - In congested urban areas, access to all public transportation contactlessly.
16 - Ability to securely access my police department's call activity, and substitute for in-car mobile data terminal if needed.
17 - Limitless scheduling and reminders, a historical calendar that goes back to the turn of the millennium and forward to infinity.
18 - Secure access to all of my financial institutions.
19 - Generally, the lowest failure rate per year of ANY device I touch.
20 - An amazing camera. Consistently takes better photos than any other device* in the hands of the near totality of photographers.
21 - I'm sure I'm forgetting things. Oh, like multiple amazing adaptive GPS services, find features for all my other devices, biometric and/or alphanumeric security against unauthorized access, instant translation services for most languages text or audio, etc.

Personally I marvel that this is available for such a pittance.

I see folks upgrading every three years to bring that down to $.95/day, not fully getting every ounce of productivity, waiting for actions to occur that occur on the latest hardware instantly, and wonder why on Earth they can't justify staying up to date so inexpensively.

The median USA wage is $19.33 per hour. Who would not work 50 minutes a day for this???

For just the price of a cup of coffee...

https://youtu.be/MEb_epsuLqA

*If judged by the photos, consistently the best, though if judged by a spreadsheet of specifications, sometimes only top three.

Consider in 1960 USA, you were renting a rotary phone for $1.00/month ($8.88 per month in 2020 CPI dollars) and it could call local people free, folks outside your immediate area for VERY high prices (LA to Boston, $2 ($17.76 in 2020 $) for three minutes.

That's it, it could do nothing else.

Everything in this ad from 1991 can be done with a six year old iPhone.

[daveathall]

Originally Posted by CashGap

The median USA wage is $19.33 per hour. Who would not work 50 minutes a day for this???

For just the price of a cup of coffee...

The median wage (middle number) is a lot different to the average wage in the US which is $11.34 an hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ees-in-the-us/

[bayerische]

Originally Posted by breguetrolex

1 leica m10r

2 leica m10

3 leica sl

4 leica sl2

5 leica 50mm f/0.95 noctilux

6 leica 75mm f/1.25 noctilux

7 nikon d6

8 nikon d5

9 nikon 800mm f/5.6 fled vr

10 nikon 600mm f/4 fled vr

lol

[bigrustypig]

1) Anything and everything Leica
2) Anything and everything Supreme
3) Vertu phones
4) Canada Goose
5) Hublot


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[HHIslander]

1) Cable TV
2) Anything associated with a wedding
3) Range Rover
4) Beer at the stadium
5) Grey Goose Vodka
6) Bose and Beats
7) College textbooks
8) Precut veggies
9) Bottled water
10) Diamonds

[TNT009]

1= Scotch/Bourbon
2= Cuban Cigars
3= Wagu Beef
4= Oysters in Restaurants
5= Gas in Cali
6= Greens Fees
7= Barbados

[CashGap]

Originally Posted by daveathall

The median wage (middle number) is a lot different to the average wage in the US which is $11.34 an hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ees-in-the-us/

Yes, "average" is skewed by a zillion high school/college kids. Always look at the median to understand what is going on.

Parents are probably paying for their iPhones anyway.

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by bayerische

lol

[TheVTCGuy]

1. “The Are of Shaving” products

2. Tempurpedic mattresses

I’ll think of more later

[droptopman]

Creed Aventus
Golf Balls
Any hyped product: shoes, watches, handbags, golf clubs--you know products in such high demand that they create a secondary market that removes them from being able to be purchased from the actual manufacturer/seller of the product and therefore must be purchased from a reseller...

[THC]

All my ex wives

[The Joker]

Originally Posted by CashGap

Wow, I have to disagree on iPhone, and to some extent, cellphone bill.

I get the top of the line iPhone once per year for something like $65/month on the Apple upgrade plan. At the end of twelve months, turn it in for one 50% to 75% faster.

So, for $2 per day...

1 - A device I use perhaps fifteen times per waking hour.
2 - A device that I could, in a pinch, do every bit of my work duties on.
3 - A device that can provide 100% of my music, TV, video, reading.
4 - An excellent advance replacement warranty even if I drop and break it.
5 - Performance that is usually superior to laptops of about one year before.
6 - Ability to cast via several technologies to a TV as a monitor, and ability to use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for more productivity.
7 - A ton of productivity software, again enough to perform all of my work duties.
8 - A timekeeper that exhibits +/- 0.0000 accuracy.
9 - Games, etc., though this is not my thing.
10 - Instant access to every photo I have ever taken, every email sent/received, every file I maintain.
11 - Multiple forms of safe contactless payment.
12 - Full control of my entire home, all locks, security, thermostats, cameras.
13 - Ability to locate, lock, unlock, start my vehicles.
14 - Excellent photo and video editing.
15 - In congested urban areas, access to all public transportation contactlessly.
16 - Ability to securely access my police department's call activity, and substitute for in-car mobile data terminal if needed.
17 - Limitless scheduling and reminders, a historical calendar that goes back to the turn of the millennium and forward to infinity.
18 - Secure access to all of my financial institutions.
19 - Generally, the lowest failure rate per year of ANY device I touch.
20 - An amazing camera. Consistently takes better photos than any other device* in the hands of the near totality of photographers.
21 - I'm sure I'm forgetting things. Oh, like multiple amazing adaptive GPS services, find features for all my other devices, biometric and/or alphanumeric security against unauthorized access, instant translation services for most languages text or audio, etc.

Personally I marvel that this is available for such a pittance.

I see folks upgrading every three years to bring that down to $.95/day, not fully getting every ounce of productivity, waiting for actions to occur that occur on the latest hardware instantly, and wonder why on Earth they can't justify staying up to date so inexpensively.

The median USA wage is $19.33 per hour. Who would not work 50 minutes a day for this???

For just the price of a cup of coffee...

https://youtu.be/MEb_epsuLqA

*If judged by the photos, consistently the best, though if judged by a spreadsheet of specifications, sometimes only top three.

Consider in 1960 USA, you were renting a rotary phone for $1.00/month ($8.88 per month in 2020 CPI dollars) and it could call local people free, folks outside your immediate area for VERY high prices (LA to Boston, $2 ($17.76 in 2020 $) for three minutes.

That's it, it could do nothing else.

Everything in this ad from 1991 can be done with a six year old iPhone.

Not debating the use we get from phones, but an Android phone is better for half the price.

[swils8610]

Originally Posted by THC

All my ex wives

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[Boothroyd]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

1. “The Are of Shaving” products

2. Tempurpedic mattresses

I’ll think of more later

Tumi???

[woowoo]

Thank you for starting a rare refreshing interesting and entertaining thread.

One thing thing that comes to mind is the whole saying 'something is only worth what people will pay for it, and if people are buying it ain't overpriced'.

No doubt many of them feel expensive when buying them and people wish they were cheaper, but people are buying these things at that price and would buy again, so are they really overpriced? Rhetorical and doesn't matter.

Here's my list:

New construction NY and Cali Real Estate (+$2k psf)

Private Jet Charters ($60k cross country)

Wedding rings

Lawyers

Carbon Fiber options on sports cars

Mcdonald's breakfast (serious inflation going on $9 per person easy for egg mcmuffin, hash brown and a coffee)

[Yk101]

Bitcoin at $29k +?

[Thug]

Originally Posted by bigrustypig

2) Anything and everything Supreme

Are we talking retail or resale?
Retail wise, prices are along what you'd expect for a streetwear brand and tbh in the past decade, their retail prices actually have not risen much compared to literally most other brands.

[330ci]

Originally Posted by Thug

Are we talking retail or resale?
Retail wise, prices are along what you'd expect for a streetwear brand and tbh in the past decade, their retail prices actually have not risen much compared to literally most other brands.

Their price hasn’t risen because their production has significantly.

I did see they re released their pipe skate took, I don’t skate or smoke anymore but always wanted one back in highschool. Might buy it to throw on the shelf, but at $80... it still isn’t cheap lol but it isn’t $200+ like they were when I was in school