worst rip-off prices

chuckcork

Irish bike prices a few years ago (and probably still now).

My bike I bought for £720 (+£50 shipping), my LBS guy told me that the list price he would expect to sell it for would have been €1500! This was when the exchange rate conversion applied would mean my bike otherwise costing €1000, so where the extra €500 would come in is anyones guess. High taxes, middle-man charges I assume.

Rip-off Ireland is still the same today even though the exchange rate is a lot closer than it was 2 years ago...no wonder the irish shop in the North if they can.

supersonic

Exposure Toro front light.

Cheshley

Ladies and Gentlemen, you can forget your £100 bibs, £40 bleed kit and £19.99 aero bottle because we have a winner.......

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=25967

I mean, seriously, who the fcuk is going to buy that????????

smegurmum

Cheshley wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, you can forget your £100 bibs, £40 bleed kit and £19.99 aero bottle because we have a winner.......

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=25967

I mean, seriously, who the fcuk is going to buy that????????

but you get a free bottle!! :P

always_tyred

That's an 11 speed bottle cage. Much better than the 10 speed one.

pastey_boy

hope vision 1 led light. you get a bulb and an anodised battery holder for £90. exposure charge £36 for the white eye attachment which is the same bulb so the rest goes on the fancy holder

pastryboy

3 pairs of Endura coolmax socks - £9.99
1 par of Assos coolmax socks - £9.99

always_tyred

pastryboy wrote:

3 pairs of Endura coolmax socks - £9.99
1 par of Assos coolmax socks - £9.99

We've already established that Endura are crap Scottish clothes. So although both companies have taken out a license to the same fabric, with one, you get Scottish stitching (not Chinese) and with the other you get far superior Swiss stitching (not Chinese)

And besides, would you really want to be seen in a wine bar by your chums wearing pikey Scottish clothing? That would be almost as bad as purchasing anything from Marks and Spencer. Unless its food, that is, in which case it would be almost as bad as not puchasing anything from Marks and Spencer.

cjw

Always Tyred wrote:

pastryboy wrote:

stitching (not Chinese) and with the other you get far superior Swiss stitching (not Chinese)

Not any more. The last lot of Assos I got the manual noted that they no longer use Swiss stitchers as they can't get anyone in swissland to sit at a machine all day stitching stuff to the standards they expect (read too expensive). So they're now stitched in Bulgaria with the same Swiss quality control. Seemed to theiir usual high standard to me.

secretsam

Clever Pun wrote:

oscarbudgie wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

For example. I'll happily pay £2.99 for a comic but not £4.99. Some people might not even pay £2.99.

My brother was here at the weekend from ireland and left a receipt from Forbidden Planet behind - £68 on comics I ask you. COMICS!! He's 43 as well. Wrong wrong wrong

btw there's a group test of computers including the 705 in this months C+

Ah but I know people who think more than 500 on a bike is a rip off... it's all about perspective and what you're interested in

It's actually an economic thing - to do with the utility people ascribe to a product or service, which they then divide into the price to get a £s per point benefit. Obviously, the utility people place on an item varies from individual to individual, based on the (non-financial) value that they place on that item - eg cachet, sex-appeal, ability to save money (eg on a car, season ticket, etc).

Of course, people don't spend time actually calculating it - unless they are sad - but each investment is weighed against other uses to which the scarce resource (ie money) can be applied.

Here endeth the lesson.