Things that are just bafflingly expensive

Indeedy-doody. A few months back Pam, in late stages of pregnancy and not really keen on setting up the mirrors at home to cut her own hair (which is what she usually does), decided to splash out on a HBF cut. Retained her basic bob but with all these 'orrible long bits. I thought she looked OK (from the photos she took) but before I got home she'd lopped off all the superfluous stuff.

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I bought a beard trimmer recently for 15 euro in boots, it doesn't quite give you a cueball clean shave but it does enough that I'm never buying razors again, at least not until such time as I have a job that requires a cueball clean shave...not looking likely anytime soon...LIVING THE DREAM

but isnt' that five minutes worth of personal 'entertainment', as opposed to the cinema where you share your (SIX HOURS?? for 20 quid??!?! maybe if you watch lord of the rings) whateever time with 200 other people!

"[sellers] know people will pay and are trying to rip them off" is the reason why everything in this thread is the price it is

Do YOU work for free? Things are expensive for various reasons. Sushi is not about quantity, it's also about the making of it. Together with truffles, I suspect that part of why they are expensive is because the ingredients quickly expire and that has to be calculated into the selling price. Haircuts? I guess some places are more expensive because of location.

*shrug* I know I'm not making sense, but I always think that if it's expensive it's not necessarily about ripping off but higher cost.

Except diamonds, that's a controlled markt. Is it worth the price? You could say yes because (until now at least) you know the prices won't drop dramatically. (Then again in the 80s they did plummet if I recall correctly.)

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however, once i decide i want short hair again i am going to have to start going to the salon more :(

better than what you get at a pub.

most expensive glass of coke ever.. 93 feet east, 3 quid for a glass of coke. it was more expensive than beer (or maybe same price)!

Yeah, but guess what they fill it up with to make up the volume!

9. pro audio gear

Ha! I'd say high-end consumer audio gear is worse cos at least you know you're guaranteed good, accurate sound with the pro stuff but, again, the "high-end" thing kinda exempts it from the bafflingly expensive tag. It's "high-end", of course it's going to be pricey (even if yr £2,000 CD player is just a cheap Philips transport, some mass-produced electronics, a massively-overspecified PSU and some dubiously-placed vacuum tubes in a chunky brushed-steel box and sounds no better than a Sony at a tenth of the price).

fucking tossers.

-- Nathalie (dotdotdo...), January 5th, 2007.

it's worth the price because you know they pay the miners well -- a bit like fair trade coffee, but more bling.

Katrina and Rita destroyed much of the 2005 crop up the path of the storm, LA and MS, but the yield here is higher this year. The 2006 Georgia crop is only half of '05's because of a warm winter, and Texas' crop is down because of lack of rain.

“You need a good, cold winter for the tree to go into dormancy, and we haven’t had that in the past few years,” Leger said. “That doesn’t mean the tree won’t produce. It just produces a lower amount of pecans.”

OK, why are green cardomums more expensive than any other curry spice (except maybe saffron)?

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SO OTM it hurts.

We looked at an identical flat to ours to buy nearly two years ago and it would have cost over £300 more a month to buy rather than stay renting our current place +£100 in leasehold charges + other assorted repairs (£630 pcm). House prices have apparently gone up 15% in Brighton since then...

You could just as well say [size of housing stock remaining fairly constant]+[desire for buy-to-let as an investment alternative to underperforming pensions]=[demand to buy outstrips supply]+[demand to rent met by supply]. This needn't necessarily be a bubble, it could just be a change in market (and cultural) conditions.

It's probably a bubble, mind.

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