That is seriously over priced
 

We're all used to seeing high priced things. But I think I can safely say I've found a product that takes the buiscuit at being serisouly over priced. I try and use natural products as much as I can, looking for a natural mostizer and I found one that costs £34.26 for a 45 gram tub. So it has expensive ingredients in it but costing that much for a small tub.

So what have you seen that you think was seriosuly over priced ?

Would you pay that ammount of money for that product ?

You're talking about Gorgeous, aren't you? xD I want to try that, but you don't need it at your age, HIM. It's made for people like me who are getting wrinkly. I want to try it, but until I have a job I can't justify the cost, I use Paradise Regained instead, at a whole £10 cheaper xD

What is your skin type? I'd highly recommend Imperialis for you, I really like that, and it's pretty much perfect for any skin. It makes me skin feel lovely, and it smells good too, and is a third of the price of Gorgeous.

Yes I am. I was staring at it for a whole ten minutes because of that price.

My skin gets really dry to the point I end up with patches which are like burns, so I'm going to natural products again.

Bananas are around £1 for 7 small(really small) ones, or 5 normal sized ones, but everything does cost more here.

HIM, go to your nearest Lush and ask if you can have a sample of Skin Drink and Imperialis. Gorgeous is for older skin, meant to help fight ageing and whatnot so you'd be wasting your money going for that at your age.

What do you clean your face with? I'm very prone to dry skin too, so I use all Lush stuff where I can xD Babyface and Sweet Japanese Girl to cleanse (one in the morning, one in the evening) and Eau Roma to tone. My skin is never dry if I religiously use those.

Lush is the only skincare that I'd ever recommend to anyone, because their stuff is worth what you pay for it. You're paying for top quality natural ingredients; not tons of fancy packaging, nasty chemicals or posh brand names.

Hmm, see my face doesn't like water one little bit, that dries it out horribly so I avoid it like the plague. Clearasil's a bit like using paint-stripper on your face, isn't it? I'm so glad to have left the "teenage skin" years behind =_= I haven't used soap on my face since I left home xD

I like to think Asian arowanas are overpriced...because i see them in pictures by dozens on farms...Then I see the un-affortable price tags on them:(.
Not that it would matter if I could afford one unless I move out of the USA.
Asian arowana= my dream fish.

That Kiki Kannibal jewelry stuff makes me go "..."
Somehow she gets away with charging $70 for a piece of glorified plastic. It's RIDICULOUS. Hand made or not, it's still just plastic. e_e

I have a gluten free diet and today I went to buy 4 bagels... The price was $10 for the bag which means each bagel is over $2. Freaking ridiculous. ><

Probably would be the general prices from my local art shop. I still can't get over them charging nearly £20 for a A3 sketchbook and £2 for a 8ml tube of watercolour paint...maybe I'm just cheap..? XD

Nope, not cheap Dreamer. The art shop at my school, SCAD, charges $6.50 for an 8ml/.27 oz tube of watercolor. And there is the great little co-op right down the road that has it for $4.

Branded clothing is the devil generally. I mean the ones that are popular with younger and easily influenced people, plus the designer labels. Because both are aware that they can over-charge for what is often shoddy goods because their clientelle have just gotta have it.

Years ago, when Calvin Klein first got really popular I was dating this guy. He desperately wanted this Calvin Klein t-shirt (plain white with a HUGE logo on the front in black) but I wouldn't let him buy it. You could buy a normal plain white T for a couple of pounds back then, one that was the same poor quality and construction as that cK one, anyway >_> It was so thin that when I put my hand under it you could see the colour of my skin through the fabric, and the hems weren't flat either, there were wrinkles stitched into them. But this T-shirt was £20, and seeing as this was probably 1995, that was a major rip-off.

I purposely avoid the big retail brands because you're just paying for the name, and I'm not interested in that. but I'm probably in the minority so those companies can continue to fleece the general public comfortably : /

I once saw some rogue of a man exchange a single, tiny slip of paper for a whole pack of unprinted computer paper with a Staples employee.

It was just this tiny little green, printed thing, only about as big as your hand. One sheet. It looked like it might have been durable paper, and I suppose the employee liked the art, as he held it up to the light and admired it, but... really? You're trading thirty four sheets of clean, white, pristine printer paper for one dirty little rag of paper fiber?!?

I suppose the employee must have been collecting them, as a box full of the things was sitting there in front of him. But honestly. That cannot be a fair trade.

A lot of other people seem to collect them, too. Perhaps it's a fad. Still, disgusting how easily people are swayed away from TRUE value simply because a significant number of others take a liking to rubbish.

Here's an issue I often rant about: Vegan foods.
How come when you want a vegan version of something, it almost always cost more?.
Yes I realize if you cook everything from scratch being vegan will be fine in price compared to animal products .
Except most normal middle class people cannot operate like that being too busy. Especially if they do meals at work during breaks or go to college. And besides most of us like our comfort foods and like to eat yummy foods. No wonder most of the people in my veg club were on the wealthy side:(.

Vegan ice cream costs about :$4 for a pint. You can buy dairy ice cream for about $2 for a gallon if you don't buy a premium brand. How is this possible when dairy takes more resources then soy or rice?. Same with vegan yogurt...I love the stuff, costs at least twice as much as dairy yogurt.

Any veg*n TV dinner or other quick meals? $$. I finally found a reasonably priced vegetarian quick meal at Aldis.
I love Amys brand..but once again...$. An Amys meal might cost $5 when another omnivore style one costs $2. It's just not something middle class people can afford to buy except to splurge. And even then, some cannot afford to do that and need to watch their expenses closely.
So these folks get to eat limited foods and stay veg*n or more variety and be omnivores.

It's like they are deliberatly trying to make being vegan into a lifestyle for wealthier people.
So most middle class people continue to eat a lot of animal products. Makes me sad since I think being vegan should be more affortable. I think more people might consider being vegan if this were the case. Not that I want to force everyone to become vegan, I just wish the option was easier. And besides, omnivores and vegetarians could benefit from more easy vegan food.

Aldis is a store that caters to middle class people with not much frills. So ...what do they usually sell? animal products and more animal products in most every prepared meal.
I am often so tempted to buy ice cream at Aldis because it's so much more affortable then buying vegan ice cream.
Still I feel guilty about cows being pregnant, calves being taken away and killed so us people can drink/ eat those dairy products.
So I often simply go without. I suppose ice cream is hardly a nutrition neccessity so it's more a aanoyance then anything else.

Pants! Clothing is really over priced, but pants just take the cake! My older sister saw a pair of cheaply made polyester pants priced for fifty dollars! Fifty! And I thought that thirty bucks for a pair of blue jeans made in China was pushing it! And to think denim used to be the cheapest of the cheap, not to mention polyester is basically a junk fabric. People these days. I swear that they just drive up the prices on things simply because they can, and because people will actually buy what they have to sell anyways. Like gas. Except people just stopped buying it so they had to push the prices back down to semi-normal levels... We can't just stop buying pants, but what you can do is stop buying over-priced pants. You'd be surprised at what gems you can find at a thrift store. Fifty cents for everything from blue jeans to dress shorts and five dollars for sports jackets and overalls. Oh the bargains one can find if they're not so concerned about brand names and pre-torn jeans. (Who wants pre-torn jeans anyway? It just looks sloppy.)

Claudia any food type that isn't "normal" costs more, because it costs more to produce, it's as simple as that. That's why stuff like gluten free flour is 4 times the price of normal flour.

Anything that can be mass produced is always going to be cheaper. Anything that is less popular and hence can only be produced in smaller amount is going to cost more because the production costs themselves are higher.

Incidentally, I buy a vegetable lasagne from the Aldi near me and it's 95p ($1.40)

My family has bought most of our clothing second hand. I got a "sticker" shock when I found out what most people pay for clothing. Of course if everyone bought second hand clothing then it wouldn't exist anymore.:sarcasm:

What really gets expensive is when you want to buy fair trade type clothing made with environmentally type fabrics.

Yeah, that doesn't make much sense, but I guess it may be because the vegan brands don't really have much in the ways of competition. That, and they probably think that just because it's a specialty food, they can push up the prices which is really stupid. I mean, what are vegans supposed to eat? Nothing? I'm pretty sure that even kosher foods are easier to come by. My mother is allergic to milk, so we have to stock up on things like soy milk and other non dairy stuff for her. It really is more expensive than it should be. Organic foods are the same way! It seems that just because they're all natural, people think they can make them more expensive. I mean, really now. It seems quality food is reserved for the rich.


@ Froggy

I live off of hand-me-downs as well, from my neighbor and my sister. But my neighbor has a few gems in her wardrobe, so it isn't all that bad... I pretty sure that, except for Lolita clothing, I'm going to pretty much all together avoid anything but thrift store shopping. After all, thrift stores have all the cool clothes anyway.

I found some blue jeans for $1 once. So when someone tells me about their pants they got on sale...I always beat them when I say I bought some pants for $1.
Not that I would find new pants a rip off if they were costing more then $1 since the people who made them need some profits.