Things that are just bafflingly expensive

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10p space invader crisps!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

they were great tho

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

We need a thread about cheap things which aren't crap!

― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

panda cola is a bad example though becuase it's ACTUALLY NASTY.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

ken, no that would be the day of the travel. would that make a difference?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh but jel is saying people don't even bother to find that out, i think

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes there is a funny 'if it's that cheap it must taste shit' thing with this.

Price is generally a good indicator of quality.

Panda cola tastes shit. xpost grr.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Space Invaders crisps are horrible.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

31. Women's haircuts. I pay £5, my wife pays about £70.

― bham (bham), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes there is a funny 'if it's that cheap it must taste shit' thing with this.

Concept of 'brand equity' to thread.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

God through female haircuts OTM. Why hasn't ANYONE tried doing a budget airline version of this? Chain of women's hairdressers that are cheap but have a reputation for being Not Shit.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

No, we're talking about things where the price just makes no sense. Either because the whole industry keeps something artificially expensive and no one can be bothered to start a price war, or because they're considered a delicacy, or because there's wildly inconsistent pricing policy, or something like rail fares which is just absurd.

i forget what the proper term is for economics of luxury goods but for things like truffles, diamonds &c their "artificially" high price is an integral part of their market appeal in the first place

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

EasyHairdresser

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Because truffles aren't actually that tasty, you mean? See also caviar.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Ferrero Rochet?

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Printer cartridges are dear because you're a captive audience - the printer is a loss leader that traps you into buying hugely pricey toner that you can't do without.

Macamadamia nuts are expensive because they need shelling by hand (I think?) because they'd be poisonous otherwise.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

**Who does that? I thought everyone took it to A Little Bloke Down The Road**

Yes, I take it to the little guy down the road, but I have used the main dealer for one or two jobs over the years. You'd be amazed how many people just pay through the nose for jobs that any mechanic could do.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

run that one past me again. How can they be non-poisonous if you shell them by hand but poisonous if you shell them using a machine?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Bottom of market:

Gent's barber

Other end:

Male Grooming

Saw this on 211 bus through Fulham yesterday.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark C, you are thinking of Blowfish surely?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

re: women's haircuts - having said that I pay a fiver to get my hair cut and it takes about five minutes; most ladies' cuts probably take several times that

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Last £5 haircut I had took 45 mins and it was the best "no. 4 all over" I ever had.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

How is it even possible to take that long?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

You go very slowly and talk to the other barbers a lot. It's part of what you pay for, at least for me.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Iceland

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

God, my last haircut took less than 45 minutes, including washing, cutting, drying and straightening. It cost £18. I do not understand ANYONE who pays £70 to get their hair cut.

(I had an ex-boyfriend who used to pay about £30 to get his hair cut. He was a poncey twat).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark H, you're right, I was misremembering. Macamadamias are a) very difficult to shell and b) need prolonged leaching to remove poisonous glycerides.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

God through female haircuts OTM. Why hasn't ANYONE tried doing a budget airline version of this? Chain of women's hairdressers that are cheap but have a reputation for being Not Shit.

i always imagined part of the joy of female haircut is to be able to tell others how much you've spent on your haircut.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

this is why diamonds are expensive, and rolex, and designer clothes.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

oh xpost to lex

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Lapdances.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ken, no that would be the day of the travel. would that make a difference?

well buying in advance is usually cheaper than day of travel (you're paying for the convenience and flexibility of just wandering to the counter and get your ticket and go?)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought lap dances aren't that expensive.. it's the drinks at lap dancing places that kill your wallet?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

How is it even possible to take that long?

Attractive Russian hairdresser, probably recently trained, being very slow and very methodical. I would recommend the experience if you're ever in Waterloo and in need of a haircut.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

£20 for five minutes worth of entertainment? I'm trying to think of a more expensive form of entertainment, that'd get me, what, six hours worth of cinema?

Don't get me started on the drinks as well. £11 for a double whiskey and Coke I paid the other week.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

you went to a lapdance place

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

correct?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa and everyone else otm re: women's haircuts. women be CRAZY! hair by fairy in covent garden rocks - no appointments, open til 7, £12.50 plus £2.50 tip for whoever does your hair cos they are all dead nice, very speedy and they know what they're doing. (and there is this utterly gorgeous bikerboy working in there with head-toe buckles and straps and long silky black hair. he looks about 12, but still, you get to surreptitiously watch him in the mirror while you're getting your hair done.)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

back to the Anal Cunt tracks already? xpost

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes RJG I did. Apparently Didier Drogba was there but I didn't see him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

My haircut (number 4) = £8 and takes 5 mins. I give him a tenner, so = £2/min.

Mrs Dr. C takes 2 hours. I reckon it's around £60, but may be more. I am not privy to that information. So approx = 50p/min. Also I know that several glasses of wine are involved.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hair By Fairy = ones quickest way to obtaining an undesired mullet!

Cut Shop in Euston is good for people who don't want to talk to hairdressers - they are quick and it's £15 or so, and you don't have to make appointments - it is like being in the Japanese Future! Or perhaps just Japan. They have a special haircut vacuum system which means no itchy neck - so they say! I certainly had no itchy neck. My haircut was alright, seeing as I had no idea what I wanted, it was just in the middle of the heatwave and my hair was TOO DARN HEAVY.

I want a haircut again now, but I have just started being complimented on my hair now it is just past shoulder length, and my desperation for SOMETHING about me to look good won't just let me cut it all off at the moment.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My hair always seems to grow back in to a Glenn McGrath mullet :(

Strangely, it costs me more to have less hair cut-off.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

But then I guess barbers aren't actually buying your hair to make hair extensions for WAGS.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

fillets of chicken

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Razorblade cartridges. I still use disposables because the price tag for a pack of 5 cartridges for the Wilkinson Titanimite Scumblitzer 8000 GX is like £10.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

you get those disposables w/ the chunky plastic handle w/ rubber grips w/ multiblades w/ soothing strip bit etc etc

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I agree w/ you but those disposable ones that are complicated and look a lot like less disposable ones are bonkers

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

But disposables are so bad, I think the price differential is probably worth it.

xpost, I have never heard of these boffo new disposables, maybe I'll give 'em a go.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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