10 Items That Are Ridiculously Overpriced

[dddrees]

As many times as Tumi has been mentioned here I too would agree. Thing is, has anybody bothered to inform Paul they are ridiculously and stupidly overpriced?

[Kowaco]

Originally Posted by Thug

that lowkey flex

Do like me and turn them inside out, cuts your cost in half

[dauster]

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.

I just hate loging into all the apps again. I just get a new phone once it slows down. Frankly I just want it to work couldn’t care less if it’s last years model or the current one.

[JakeK]

Trucks especially HD trucks.

[Rock]

Never mind 'Luxury items' which you would expect to be lousy value for money.
Just walk around the Supermarket and have a look at some of the crazy prices for everyday subsistence items.
Don't know what it is like in the US but in Australia fruit and vegetables and a lot of protein is very expensive. I often wonder how low-income families manage. Their diet must be very limited.