Things that are REALLY Inexpensive...

[Truckosaurus]

Following on from the other thread on overpriced tat, how about a list of quality products that don't actually cost much:

I shall start with.

Pears soap. Smells nice, classic looks, 60p a bar.



Beer. You can buy interesting beer from small breweries for pretty much the same price as mass produced 'Brewed under Licence' muck.

[trickywoo]

Fill your boots

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=155...

[Thankyou4calling]

Old banger cars.

I bought my first car, an old banger 30 years ago and it cost £300. It was a bit of a heap but MOT'd.

Now, I can buy an old banger, a bit of a heap but MOT'd for ...............£300.

That's cheap

[Monkeylegend]

Everything in Poundland or any such discount store. Thousands of items, to many to mention.

[andy-xr]

Monkeylegend said:

Everything in Poundland or any such discount store. Thousands of items, to many to mention.

The thing with these is, it's surprising how much markup is on them. You'd think it's nigh on impossible to find, ship, stock and sell one of the items for a quid, but when you see the volumes that they're working at and the margins they make, it's astonishing.

An old boss used to run a pound store, he was buying in some items at 28p, his landing costs and the amount per item to pay the rent, the people and everything else to get it onto the shelf was about 18p per item

[crofty1984]

The Queen. About 57p per citizen isn't it?

[bristolracer]

Monkeylegend said:

Everything in Poundland or any such discount store. Thousands of items, to many to mention.

Have you ever thought about all the 1000s of shipping containers on route from china,just to fill our pound shops with cheap s###?

[Monkeylegend]

bristolracer said:

Monkeylegend said:

Everything in Poundland or any such discount store. Thousands of items, to many to mention.

Have you ever thought about all the 1000s of shipping containers on route from china,just to fill our pound shops with cheap s###?

If the market wasn't there...

[Avidfanofstuff]

Thailand

[Electronicpants]

TV's

Back in 1994, I sold TV's as a weekend job, the cheapest TV we had was a 14" portable a Sangsomething, at £180, which given inflation is £320 in today's money.

Nowadays you can get a 42" tv, all be it a not very good one, for £200.00

In fact all electronic goods, a half decent PC was a grand (1,800), Video £300 (550), hi fi £900 (1,600).

[Willy Nilly]

Monkeylegend said:

Everything in Poundland or any such discount store. Thousands of items, to many to mention.

Don't they just sell the same products in smaller containers for a quid? I'm not sure the cost per unit/gram/ml/litre is any cheaper but haven't checked.

[putonghua73]

Truckosaurus said:

Beer. You can buy interesting beer from small breweries for pretty much the same price as mass produced 'Brewed under Licence' muck.

This.

I live in East London (for my sins), which is home to a mixture of hipsters and ISIS in the UK. The former, whilst possessing annoying mannerisms, modes of transport, styles of dress, and facial grooming, have transformed previously run-down places and started micro-breweries.

I purchased a number of beers brewed and bottled in Hackney Wick from my local off-licence, and for the same price (or a little bit more) than the usual lager/beer choices, I can buy local with lots of flavour.

[BrabusMog]

putonghua73 said:

This.

I live in East London (for my sins), which is home to a mixture of hipsters and ISIS in the UK. The former, whilst possessing annoying mannerisms, modes of transport, styles of dress, and facial grooming, have transformed previously run-down places and started micro-breweries.

I purchased a number of beers brewed and bottled in Hackney Wick from my local off-licence, and for the same price (or a little bit more) than the usual lager/beer choices, I can buy local with lots of flavour.

I used to live in Mile End, not sure I'd want any of the "local flavour" in my beer