The price of stuff ...
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
LarJammer said:
A cant comprehend how 75ml of toothpaste can cost £3.50. Thats over £45 per litre! For fecking toothpaste!
Most well know brands of toothpaste can be bought in Poundland, and that's 125ml tubes. Stop buying your toothpaste in Harrods. Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Sunday 26th February 19:46
Edited by TwigtheWonderkid on Sunday 26th February 19:46
kingston12 said:
Music has had to become cheaper as people just aren't buying it. When iTunes came to prevalence they were charging about £10 per album. Then Spotify came out enabling streaming of all of the music that they wanted for £10 on all of their devices and most people stopped buying music altogether.
I am sure I saw a stat recently that showed paid for digital downloads are now behind CD and vinyl again in terms of sales.
It's funny as so many people I talk to who commute into London just use streaming services and laugh when I say I buy CDs! I am sure I saw a stat recently that showed paid for digital downloads are now behind CD and vinyl again in terms of sales.
I certainly noticed that shops eventually took notice of the pricing when internet buying caught on more. Large second hand record shop near me shut down as it simply didn't compete on pricing at all.
Like you say, then you get the likes of Spotify and even iTunes where people don't have to move off their ar$es and it hits the industry even more.
I did hear something about CD/Vinyl taking over again though.
Beefmeister said:
StuTheGrouch said:
I drink between 2 and 4 litres of sparkling water each day. San Pellegrino is my water of choice.
I can't believe nobody picked up on this.Do you piss in a solid gold toilet, with your pecker held by a man-servant? Utter madness.
I buy multi-packs of water for the house and take 1 of those to work each day; so a pint when I wake up, a litre at work then 2-3 more pints when I get home. Can't be more than a £10 a week habit- some people spend more than that a day on fags!
I probably shouldn't mention how much I spend on coffee at work then....
StuTheGrouch said:
Beefmeister said:
StuTheGrouch said:
I drink between 2 and 4 litres of sparkling water each day. San Pellegrino is my water of choice.
I can't believe nobody picked up on this.Do you piss in a solid gold toilet, with your pecker held by a man-servant? Utter madness.
I buy multi-packs of water for the house and take 1 of those to work each day; so a pint when I wake up, a litre at work then 2-3 more pints when I get home. Can't be more than a £10 a week habit- some people spend more than that a day on fags!
I probably shouldn't mention how much I spend on coffee at work then....
I can remember when a packet of fags and a gallon of petrol were the same price ,32p
A loaf of bread and a pint of beer was the same price 23p .
The fags and petrol are not that far apart now but bread and beer are very different at about £1 - £1.50 for bread ,beer in the south is over £4 a pint .
A loaf of bread and a pint of beer was the same price 23p .
The fags and petrol are not that far apart now but bread and beer are very different at about £1 - £1.50 for bread ,beer in the south is over £4 a pint .
GetCarter said:
The first blank CD's I bought (which I could only source from the USA) were £30 each. Plus P&P. Ouch.
Still, I was the only composer submitting CD demos - not cassettes, so got loads of work! (I'm sure people were just impressed by the tech).
TVs were also miles more expensive than now. My first job was selling/delivering them in 1974 and a decent set would have cost 3+ months (of my) wages.
...and my first 2.7mp DLSR in 2000 was over £4000 with no lens! A £300 Sony compact now takes better photos than it ever did.
What was even more painful was an error in the burning process... at £10 per disk and 1x burning speed - normally over halfway into an 80 minute CD!Still, I was the only composer submitting CD demos - not cassettes, so got loads of work! (I'm sure people were just impressed by the tech).
TVs were also miles more expensive than now. My first job was selling/delivering them in 1974 and a decent set would have cost 3+ months (of my) wages.
...and my first 2.7mp DLSR in 2000 was over £4000 with no lens! A £300 Sony compact now takes better photos than it ever did.
Price of CD's was always a bit of a scam - typically about £1 to the artist and same again to produce and most of whats left on coke and hookers and paying off commercial radio stations to play on rotation whatever dirge they're pushing this week
What makes sme laugh are the sudden plummets in tech price when the next big thing comes along proving the price was rigged all the time - you couldnt get a decent nicam video recorder for less than about 400-500 in the late 90s yet a couple of years later when home recording was all about PVRs + sky+ etc they were giving them away.
Another one, slightly more obscure but relevent to my line of work, was the electronic ballasts that allow you to dim flourescent tubes - the mutts nuts in its day of recessed strip lighting - bought a couple at some considerable cost for a client of mine - couple years later and LED strip has come of age and yup, pocket change.
Why is that, surely price should go UP as these items become rarer and specialist without the economies of production + retail scale, just proves that pricing tends to be set at what they think the market will bear rather than anything relevent to production...
What makes sme laugh are the sudden plummets in tech price when the next big thing comes along proving the price was rigged all the time - you couldnt get a decent nicam video recorder for less than about 400-500 in the late 90s yet a couple of years later when home recording was all about PVRs + sky+ etc they were giving them away.
Another one, slightly more obscure but relevent to my line of work, was the electronic ballasts that allow you to dim flourescent tubes - the mutts nuts in its day of recessed strip lighting - bought a couple at some considerable cost for a client of mine - couple years later and LED strip has come of age and yup, pocket change.
Why is that, surely price should go UP as these items become rarer and specialist without the economies of production + retail scale, just proves that pricing tends to be set at what they think the market will bear rather than anything relevent to production...
Frimley111R said:
Went to Byron's burger place last week just to try it. 2 burgers, fries, 2 beers and another side - £40!! Never again.
Pints pushing £5 each. No wonder there are fewer pubs.
A main, a side, half a side, beer and the service charge - in central London - for £20?Pints pushing £5 each. No wonder there are fewer pubs.
In fairness it's probably your expectations need adjustment, rather than the prices!
hairyben said:
Why is that, surely price should go UP as these items become rarer and specialist without the economies of production + retail scale, just proves that pricing tends to be set at what they think the market will bear rather than anything relevent to production...
The correct price for anything is whatever the customer is prepared to pay. The seller must decide whether he is prepared to sell at that price.
Supply and demand. That's how the market works.
iphonedyou said:
Frimley111R said:
Went to Byron's burger place last week just to try it. 2 burgers, fries, 2 beers and another side - £40!! Never again.
Pints pushing £5 each. No wonder there are fewer pubs.
A main, a side, half a side, beer and the service charge - in central London - for £20?Pints pushing £5 each. No wonder there are fewer pubs.
In fairness it's probably your expectations need adjustment, rather than the prices!
In terms of pubs, I don't think that London has followed the rest of the country into lower numbers. I have only got experience of central London and the outer suburb I live in, but if anything there seem to be more pubs rather than less. Most of them do charge £5+ a pint, and don't seem to lose business as a result.
Rawwr said:
wack said:
And the price list
If only, right?
I keep offering my FIL £100k for it, but he won't have it.
I remember my first DVD player in 1999 cost me £300. It was about the size of the VHS recorder it sat on! Blu-ray players can be bought for peanuts now.
2000: I bought a fully loaded A4 Avant 2.5TDi, my first brand new car. It was €32k.
The modern equivalent's probably closer to €55k.
kingston12 said:
Funkycoldribena said:
Bloke selling cans of coke outside Madam Tussauds in 1977/8 for 50p.Thought that was extortion.
That really was extortion! £2.85 in today's money. How much would that type of hawker charge today - surely not more than £1.50?The kid in the post office went to creamfields last year , £8 for a bacon sandwich with a queue all day
Edited by wack on Wednesday 1st March 22:59
RC1807 said:
2000: I bought a fully loaded A4 Avant 2.5TDi, my first brand new car. It was €32k.
The modern equivalent's probably closer to €55k.
That's only because of the BS list prices to make the leases look cheap , £55,000 , yes sir but you can lease it for £3000 deposit and £399 a month The modern equivalent's probably closer to €55k.
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