Things that are just bafflingly expensive

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Womens haircuts are stupidly expensive. I haven't had my hair trimmed in a year because the last time I tried to get a trim - just a trim, mind you, chop the ends off, no styling - everywhere I asked wanted to charge me £30. FOR A TRIM!!!

Eventually after asking around, a place did it for about £20, but still. Absurd.

My ex used to get his hair cut at one of those £5 places. I went to get my hair trimmed there - they told me it would be £10 because I had long hair. I just wondered if a male with long hair went in there it would be the same. Grrrr.

I think I may try this cut shop place, but I utilised the Liz self haircutting method this past week.

Trains, also. WTF? The service gets worse and the prices go up. Start making sense, please.

Why are their prices climbing at such an absurd rate?

When I first started buying them, they were £60. They they went up to £65 within about 6 months. The past Xmas, they were at £75. This is all within about two years!

I want a haircut.

I suppose with a lapdance you are paying for the memories.

I have noticed this last week that the reduced train service has managed to be on time at least, but that might be due to fewer passengers, sorry, customers.

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Actually it probably would be the same. I've been charged extra for having a lot cut off.

I quite like going to the barber's but you could do it more often at home, and at any time.

The other thing though is that the cinema exhibition industry has been in a serious crunch for a while, really ever since home video took off as a format. The party line is that they can't make ticket prices any lower and still keep the lights on; the ONLY profit they make is actually in the concessions. Why one chain doesn't knock the price back slightly and try to make its name as the one where you don't have to pay through the nose for concessions is obvious: they would have to run ads proudly proclaiming "Only $2.25 for a box of Junior Mints!" which doesn't sound good even if the going rate is $2.75. So even though everybody who goes to the movies does nothing but gasp in horror at the prices, no individual exhibitor has any incentive at all to cut the prices back.

Michael Carrick

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)?