HIGH/LOW prices. What have you seen, what have you bought?
Discussion
I fancied a quick sandwich whilst waiting for a train recently.
£9 at a local restaurant.
£3.50 for the works at a local shop. I went for this.
£9 is a bit steep for chicken in bread in my book, irrespective of where its served.
Tastiest-cheapest sandwich locally is tuna/mayo/sweetcorn for 99p.
£3.50 is the most Ive paid for a plastic wrapped sandwich, from a shop. Someone can top that Im sure.
I fancied a snack at a hotel before a friends wedding once.
Quick look at menu in lounge, £12 for a sandwich. I didn't buy that sandwich either.
Obviously prices vary for like-products, depending on where you are eating them, hence the highs and lows.
I dislike spending nearly five quid on a hot dog at a burger van, especially when buying for others, knowing the nasty 'catering sausage' and bun together probably cost all of £35p.
I saw an aga/hob through a shop window in Kensington once. A mere snip at £26'000 iirc. (Obviously I bought two).
I encountered two quotes to write a small amount of code necessary to fix a problem. Low £50, high £1000, same small amount of code/same problem.
You cant beat the 20p cakes at local fetes though
£8 for a beer on the continent is incomprehensible.
Not limited to food, what highs and lows have you noted for like/same products that are available elsewhere.
£9 at a local restaurant.
£3.50 for the works at a local shop. I went for this.
£9 is a bit steep for chicken in bread in my book, irrespective of where its served.
Tastiest-cheapest sandwich locally is tuna/mayo/sweetcorn for 99p.
£3.50 is the most Ive paid for a plastic wrapped sandwich, from a shop. Someone can top that Im sure.
I fancied a snack at a hotel before a friends wedding once.
Quick look at menu in lounge, £12 for a sandwich. I didn't buy that sandwich either.
Obviously prices vary for like-products, depending on where you are eating them, hence the highs and lows.
I dislike spending nearly five quid on a hot dog at a burger van, especially when buying for others, knowing the nasty 'catering sausage' and bun together probably cost all of £35p.
I saw an aga/hob through a shop window in Kensington once. A mere snip at £26'000 iirc. (Obviously I bought two).
I encountered two quotes to write a small amount of code necessary to fix a problem. Low £50, high £1000, same small amount of code/same problem.
You cant beat the 20p cakes at local fetes though
£8 for a beer on the continent is incomprehensible.
Not limited to food, what highs and lows have you noted for like/same products that are available elsewhere.
Edited by Mobsta on Thursday 16th May 15:24
I once spent £20 on a can of coke and a magnum ice cream in Tokyo airport, I think there was some huge currency unbalance happening at the time or something.
If you want a truly upsetting idea of Low / High pricing, take anything food based and add the word 'wedding' to it. At the hotel we had our reception last month you can have a nice 3 course meal for about £30 a person, but somehow this becomes £75 per person when you ask to bring a few hundred people with you.
If you want a truly upsetting idea of Low / High pricing, take anything food based and add the word 'wedding' to it. At the hotel we had our reception last month you can have a nice 3 course meal for about £30 a person, but somehow this becomes £75 per person when you ask to bring a few hundred people with you.
Boydie88 said:
Roughly 10 euros for a bottle of water in the night clubs of Ibiza - beer (if you buy San Miguel) is cheaper.
Go to the bars on the West End and you can get whatever you can barter out of the reps which will often work out cheaper than off licenses/supermarkets.
in the clubs i found beer to b e£15+Go to the bars on the West End and you can get whatever you can barter out of the reps which will often work out cheaper than off licenses/supermarkets.
did find a supermarket that sold litre bottles of white wine for 88c
Ouch. For me, pint in Tokyo £8. But then, actually, I managed to eat and drink very well almost everywhere else in the country on a shoestring.
I couldn't handle paying £15 for a beer in a nightclub, I am undoubtedly a tightwad in general life but this would just dull my enjoyment of the whole affair.
I couldn't handle paying £15 for a beer in a nightclub, I am undoubtedly a tightwad in general life but this would just dull my enjoyment of the whole affair.
Mr Roper said:
P-Jay said:
I once spent £20 on a can of coke and a magnum ice cream
I don't know what's worse..the price or the fact you paid it. Speaking of travels, a beautiful half litre of Budvar, served by a aproned barkeep in a gold edged glass with the precision of a chemist in nice bar in Prague, about 60p a few years ago, 50 meters up the road in a bar called Darlings, a warmish bottled of non descript 'pils' thrust into your hand by a former member of the KGB and / or Spetsnaz £7.50. Come for the beer, stay for the stage show
Not quite in the same league as you lot, but I noticed that for this "season" burgers at a car show burger van are £4-£4.50, last year they were more like £3-£3.50. I know fuel is always blamed, but I don't think it's gone up by 33% since last summer. A lovely classic mobile fish and chip van at Donington was tempting, until Fish and Chips (with pre-battered fish, apparently) was listed at £7.
That said, I'm upset that one of the local pubs has put a nearly-a-pint of Becks up from £3.50 (which was already a bit steep for the area) to £3.70 in one jump, just after the budget gave us 1p per pint off. So I obviously move in cheaper circles than most here.
In the other direction, a trip to my local Makro brought screenwash concentrate at £3.99+VAT for a 5 litre bottle, or 99p+VAT for a 2.5 litre bottle. And weeks later, the anomaly is still there but the two aren't next to each other on the shelf now.
That said, I'm upset that one of the local pubs has put a nearly-a-pint of Becks up from £3.50 (which was already a bit steep for the area) to £3.70 in one jump, just after the budget gave us 1p per pint off. So I obviously move in cheaper circles than most here.
In the other direction, a trip to my local Makro brought screenwash concentrate at £3.99+VAT for a 5 litre bottle, or 99p+VAT for a 2.5 litre bottle. And weeks later, the anomaly is still there but the two aren't next to each other on the shelf now.
Edited by droopsnoot on Thursday 16th May 18:29
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