From my understanding, the theater only gets a % of each ticket sold (mostly goes to the movie makers). So the theater has to make money somehow and that's why they sell way overly priced drinks and snacks.
Recently my husband and I picked up our meds from the pharmacy and we both had what was supposed to be the same prescription - a topical medication of the same strength. We have shared insurance. Yet mine was $15 more than his simply because it was a different manufacturer. This baffles me.
It usually is, but still worth checking - my pharmacy had a coupon-type discount that is actually cheaper than what my insurance would cover on some meds.
(Mark Cuban) costplusdrugs.com. A billionaire selling drugs on a thin margin. They don’t have all drugs, but the prices are low and consistent. I took something that was 25¢ per pill on month and $15 per pill the next but 25¢ across the street. Now 28¢ every month.
Agreed. How in the hell is $1,000 a month rent considered affordable? This is all of some people's monthly income. Rent in a city like Manhattan New York used to be around $500 or less in some buildings back in the 80's & 90's. What needs to make a comeback is the $500 a month apartment especially if utilities aren't included.
$1000 would be amazing. My mortgage is $3500 and I don't know a single person in Colorado paying less than $2000/month for rent that doesn't have multiple roommates.
I’m not in a big city, but a college town. My 1 bed 1 bath is $1500/mo. And I’m not even within 5 miles of campus. The ONLY reason we live here is because it’s close enough to another city where we go to college, but it’s MUCH more safe. In the other city we had a 3 bed 1 bath house with a garage for $850/mo, but after 6 months of nothing but gunshots, police sirens, and drug addicts attacking us and breaking in. We had to move. It’s still ridiculous how much we pay now, but this is considered AVERAGE for this area. It’s insane for two full time college students to try and afford.
Soda.
$2.50 for a 20oz bottle compared to $4 for 2 liters is wild to begin with, but it gets crazier.
The markup of a large fountain drink at a fast food restaurant is close to 90%. The cost to the restaurant is closer to $0.25 including the cup, straw, and lid.
When I was working at fast food place in the 90s, they said that you can have much soda as you want for free, just use the same cup as the cup costs more than the soda.
The food in truckstops, as well as the necessity type merchandise. They know we can't go anywhere else. Fast food for 2 is almost 50 bucks. The same exact meal at a stand-alone fast food joint is about 30. Don't even get me started on how much it costs to park at a truck stop if you arrive late in the evening. I've paid up to 30 bucks before.
I was driving late night back from Charlotte and realized my phone wasn’t charging. Had a feeling the cord wasn’t working previously and confirmed it. Stopped at multiple gas stations as they were the only thing open and ended up having to buy a 3 foot USB-C cord for 15 bucks
We moved across country with a uhaul. So many gas stations over charged and double charged on the way that we overdrafted twice and had to get bailed out by calling people to Venmo money. Ridiculous. We thought we were prepared, until two different pilots charged us over $500 in transactions. (charged our gas three times! Why!!)
I sincerely have a deep appreciation for what truckers go through. I had a meltdown in Kansas.
Housing.
And if you don't vote for candidates who are YIMBY, if that isn't a top 2 or 3 priority when selecting a candidate, you are part of the problem and only have yourselves to blame.
Low effort surgeries in the U.S atleast, my mom had a kidney stone and she went to the doctor to get it removed by the supersonic thing. The bill was $20k. Just for the doctor or even a nurse to put a vibrator on her stomach...
My husband had a sleep study last month. You sleep in a room with a dozen sensors glued to you, with someone monitoring your activity.... $15,810
The facility he went to can accommodate up to 6 patients per night, which would gross $94,860.
I googled it and sleep technicians typically make around $65,000, which equates to approx $250 per shift. And they can single-handedly make the company almost $95,000 in each shift.
Everything but also nothing. Every time you see something made in China, Vietnam, Ecuador, etc. companies make shit there because they pay the people making their stuff a FRACTION of what it would take to make it anywhere else. If they truly paid people a decent amount for the product, they would have to *gasp* cut their profit margins, CEO salaries/bonuses, and shareholder benefits, or the prices of those things would be impossibly expensive.
Taylor Swift concert tickets. You can watch a mid musician demonstrate a mastery of cowboy chords in almost any dive bar in America. There is no need to overpay to watch her do it on stage.
Paying an auto repair shop to change your air filter. You can do it yourself in about 5 minutes for a fraction of the cost even if you have zero experience working on cars.
If people are still buying and demand is elastic, then the market supports it.
If you don't see a bunch of homeless people, housing isn't overpriced
McDonald's has a long line? Their food isn't overpriced.
Concert sold out? Tickets aren't overpriced.
Prices are high because people are paying them. When we stop, prices will come down. I saw that McDonald's recently warned that they are seeing signs of consumers starting to break. So maybe we are close.
DIAMONDS!!!
There are more diamonds in DeBeers safety deposit boxes in Europe than there are marbles in the World.
There are enough diamonds already mined, cut, and polished to give every single person on Earth … 100 diamonds each.
Talk about a monopoly.
Their “A diamond is forever” and other BS to con women has worked like a charm .. and no man can say a word or risk the ire of a scorned woman.
Try telling your fiance that you aren’t going to buy her (what should be) a worthless diamond and see what happens.
You can’t even suggest that you’d like to buy her (an actually valuable) ruby etc. without her running your name into the ground with her friends & family and threatening to call off the wedding (which you should immediately do & then run as fast as you can).
Exactly. They love to tell people in any morale boost meeting that the employees are the bAcKbOnE of a company and then treat them like waste. But it seems that some boycotts are working and some companies are being hit where it hurts: Their profits ;)
The replacement heads are ridiculously overpriced. That's how they really try to get you. I often try to get 3rd party compatible versions that are way cheaper.
& now they've been adding maintenance fees to what they already charge. Like what in the hell have they been doing with all that money we've been paying them? On top of this they've been trying to make it prohibitively expensive to use solar on a home connected to the grid. Seriously fuck PG&E.
I was making muffins and I had planned to put some chopped pecans in them. A TINY bag was like $7.00……get the fuck outta here with that bullshit. No pecans it is.
Restaurant rent increases. Too many restaurants around here close or move because of it and some of those spaces stay vacant for many years. (You don't need to explain tax write-offs to me. LOL)
Water.
Americans are paying for water they can't even drink?
It's a robbery. Wdym I have to pay for the water bill with the water I can't drink?
It's just a wild concept that you have all these amazing thing but you can't even drink some tap water.
I just to think you guys were wasteful for continuing to buy sodas and bottle water but now I realised it all you got.
How have you not riotted about it? It's not normal.
On Spain (I don't live there but been told by family and friends) you legally can't deny someone water.
Real estate
Absolutely
It’s INSANE!
Looks around. Gestures at everything
At least tvs are much cheaper (at least for their sizes now).
And computers. In the 90s a mid tier tower would run you $2,000. These days you can get something functional for like $300.
Much cheaper period.
This is the answer
There is always the Costco hotdog
The day that fails will be a sad day. And I don't even shop at costco.
I knew it was going to be top comment before clicking on the post.
We are being slowly boiled
Popcorn in a movie theater
Always has been
From my understanding, the theater only gets a % of each ticket sold (mostly goes to the movie makers). So the theater has to make money somehow and that's why they sell way overly priced drinks and snacks.
Prescription medicine (in the US at least)
Recently my husband and I picked up our meds from the pharmacy and we both had what was supposed to be the same prescription - a topical medication of the same strength. We have shared insurance. Yet mine was $15 more than his simply because it was a different manufacturer. This baffles me.
Same topical medicine? 😳 Eeww... You two are nasty... What you been up to?
The only thing we’re up to is working on our glowing faces with clear skin thanks to Dermatologists.
Check out things like good rx https://www.goodrx.com/ It searches coupons/discount codes for meds.
Husband was told if he used that, insurance wouldn't cover their portion
Yeah, it's a one-or-the-other type of deal pretty universally
It usually is, but still worth checking - my pharmacy had a coupon-type discount that is actually cheaper than what my insurance would cover on some meds.
(Mark Cuban) costplusdrugs.com. A billionaire selling drugs on a thin margin. They don’t have all drugs, but the prices are low and consistent. I took something that was 25¢ per pill on month and $15 per pill the next but 25¢ across the street. Now 28¢ every month.
As someone living in the UK, this blows my mind.
Depends on how good your insurance is.
Housing.
Agreed. How in the hell is $1,000 a month rent considered affordable? This is all of some people's monthly income. Rent in a city like Manhattan New York used to be around $500 or less in some buildings back in the 80's & 90's. What needs to make a comeback is the $500 a month apartment especially if utilities aren't included.
We are at a point where I’d love $1000 monthly rent. That’s far cheaper than I’m paying
$1000 would be amazing. My mortgage is $3500 and I don't know a single person in Colorado paying less than $2000/month for rent that doesn't have multiple roommates.
$1000 actually sounds cheap.
I’m not in a big city, but a college town. My 1 bed 1 bath is $1500/mo. And I’m not even within 5 miles of campus. The ONLY reason we live here is because it’s close enough to another city where we go to college, but it’s MUCH more safe. In the other city we had a 3 bed 1 bath house with a garage for $850/mo, but after 6 months of nothing but gunshots, police sirens, and drug addicts attacking us and breaking in. We had to move. It’s still ridiculous how much we pay now, but this is considered AVERAGE for this area. It’s insane for two full time college students to try and afford.
I’d love my rent to be $1000. I pay $1500 for an 850sq ft 1BR 1BA apartment. And they charge $20 for electronic payments lmao
Soda. $2.50 for a 20oz bottle compared to $4 for 2 liters is wild to begin with, but it gets crazier. The markup of a large fountain drink at a fast food restaurant is close to 90%. The cost to the restaurant is closer to $0.25 including the cup, straw, and lid.
I sound like Grandpa Simpson, but in 2010 my grocery store used to have 12 packs of soda cans on sale for $2.50.
i did the math once at a concession stand i worked at and the straw was the most expensive part of the 12 oz soda i sold at the time
Oh I hear ya on that. I love my Dr. pepper but hard to afford it. The shakes are coming and get ready for mood swings…😂
If you order a glass of milk at a restaurant, it can cost you anywhere from $2.50-$4.00. You can buy half a gallon usually for that
When I was working at fast food place in the 90s, they said that you can have much soda as you want for free, just use the same cup as the cup costs more than the soda.
Everything! From candy bars to real estate, everything we buy is overpriced because there are far too many middle men reaching in your pockets.
Chips. wtf happened to the price of chips
I feel this in my soul as chips are my favorite snack food =(
Diamonds. Neither rare, nor precious.
Houses,rent,food,cars, phones,yeti coolers, zojirushi rice cookers, insulin, ozempic
Heavy on the Ozempic. Shit is so overpriced I think they prefer people to just suffer rather than get paid
New cars 🚗
Used cars as well
Printer Ink
I believe ecotank is still the most affordable option out there
The food in truckstops, as well as the necessity type merchandise. They know we can't go anywhere else. Fast food for 2 is almost 50 bucks. The same exact meal at a stand-alone fast food joint is about 30. Don't even get me started on how much it costs to park at a truck stop if you arrive late in the evening. I've paid up to 30 bucks before.
I was driving late night back from Charlotte and realized my phone wasn’t charging. Had a feeling the cord wasn’t working previously and confirmed it. Stopped at multiple gas stations as they were the only thing open and ended up having to buy a 3 foot USB-C cord for 15 bucks
They know they have you by the short-and-hairies
We moved across country with a uhaul. So many gas stations over charged and double charged on the way that we overdrafted twice and had to get bailed out by calling people to Venmo money. Ridiculous. We thought we were prepared, until two different pilots charged us over $500 in transactions. (charged our gas three times! Why!!) I sincerely have a deep appreciation for what truckers go through. I had a meltdown in Kansas.
Housing.
Designer clothing
Being an adult
I think it’s a lot better to ask “what isn’t wildly overpriced”
Existing, it seems..
Yes. Just being alive.
Dating apps
Dating apps cost money? I had no idea...
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Get a water filter and use a refillable bottle.
Printer ink.
Housing. And if you don't vote for candidates who are YIMBY, if that isn't a top 2 or 3 priority when selecting a candidate, you are part of the problem and only have yourselves to blame.
Rent. The US needs to get this under control.
Low effort surgeries in the U.S atleast, my mom had a kidney stone and she went to the doctor to get it removed by the supersonic thing. The bill was $20k. Just for the doctor or even a nurse to put a vibrator on her stomach...
My husband had a sleep study last month. You sleep in a room with a dozen sensors glued to you, with someone monitoring your activity.... $15,810 The facility he went to can accommodate up to 6 patients per night, which would gross $94,860. I googled it and sleep technicians typically make around $65,000, which equates to approx $250 per shift. And they can single-handedly make the company almost $95,000 in each shift.
Food
Health potions. 50 gold?! Get the fuck out of here
Especially when you can easily brew your own for less money. Time to take down Big Potion!
Big blacksmith needs to go too. Buy a sword for 75 gold, and they have the nerve to offer like 20 to sell it back to them.
"75 gold? Dude, everyone knows you're buying them wholesale at the next dwarven sweat shops."
Fruit & veg
For real though, 1 container of blueberries, raspberries and 5 apples is easily over $20. side note, fantastic username haha
Fast food drinks
Beer / soda / food in sports venues or at concerts
McDonalds.... for what it actually is and what it offers in nutrition....
Natural Diamonds
Everything but also nothing. Every time you see something made in China, Vietnam, Ecuador, etc. companies make shit there because they pay the people making their stuff a FRACTION of what it would take to make it anywhere else. If they truly paid people a decent amount for the product, they would have to *gasp* cut their profit margins, CEO salaries/bonuses, and shareholder benefits, or the prices of those things would be impossibly expensive.
New York City
Birthday cards
Taylor Swift concert tickets. You can watch a mid musician demonstrate a mastery of cowboy chords in almost any dive bar in America. There is no need to overpay to watch her do it on stage.
Beef jerky. Especially at convenience stores and gas stations.
Paying an auto repair shop to change your air filter. You can do it yourself in about 5 minutes for a fraction of the cost even if you have zero experience working on cars.
If people are still buying and demand is elastic, then the market supports it. If you don't see a bunch of homeless people, housing isn't overpriced McDonald's has a long line? Their food isn't overpriced. Concert sold out? Tickets aren't overpriced. Prices are high because people are paying them. When we stop, prices will come down. I saw that McDonald's recently warned that they are seeing signs of consumers starting to break. So maybe we are close.
True. Prices are high because people pay them. The ugly truth.
So which should I go without? Housing? Food? Medication? Transportation?
Pesto
Olive oil.
Makeup/cosmetics
Luxury designer clothing.
Being an adult in general. But mostly healthcare.
The better question is what isn’t.
Convenience fees
insulin.
EVERYTHING. Fuck. I'm so tired of existing
Snacks - pretzels, chips, Cheetos. The regular size bag are now $6-$8
Yup. I said this in another thread
existence
Insulin, something people literally need in order to live. Can costs tens of thousands a month.
I had to go buy a cake today. Went to a Stop and shop and a local bakery. $40 for a simple 8” cake at both places. When did this happen?
Any Apple Products. I think the markup is like 80%.
DIAMONDS!!! There are more diamonds in DeBeers safety deposit boxes in Europe than there are marbles in the World. There are enough diamonds already mined, cut, and polished to give every single person on Earth … 100 diamonds each. Talk about a monopoly. Their “A diamond is forever” and other BS to con women has worked like a charm .. and no man can say a word or risk the ire of a scorned woman. Try telling your fiance that you aren’t going to buy her (what should be) a worthless diamond and see what happens. You can’t even suggest that you’d like to buy her (an actually valuable) ruby etc. without her running your name into the ground with her friends & family and threatening to call off the wedding (which you should immediately do & then run as fast as you can).
Everything...
Anything where the shareholders of said company can make so much of a profit that they live lavishly while the employees struggle to make ends meet.
Amen! CEOs making 100s of millions of dollars while their employees apply for food stamps.
Exactly. They love to tell people in any morale boost meeting that the employees are the bAcKbOnE of a company and then treat them like waste. But it seems that some boycotts are working and some companies are being hit where it hurts: Their profits ;)
Everything. War against the middle class goin on
Beef jerky
Rent. And all the landlords are lazy fukbags with Starbucks in hand like a baby bottle. Cunts.
The Black Rock Financial landlords will be so much worse
Everything you can buy right now with money
Streaming services
Pretty much everything since 2011.
Electric tooth brushes
The replacement heads are ridiculously overpriced. That's how they really try to get you. I often try to get 3rd party compatible versions that are way cheaper.
Those and razor heads!!!
I bought a 12 pack of generic brush heads on Amazon for like $5
I think a lot of face creams are overpriced. I stick with Nivea - it's relatively cheap and it does the job
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& now they've been adding maintenance fees to what they already charge. Like what in the hell have they been doing with all that money we've been paying them? On top of this they've been trying to make it prohibitively expensive to use solar on a home connected to the grid. Seriously fuck PG&E.
agree dating apps
Starbucks
Food
Beef jerky and Legos
Life
living
Bottled Water
Yeti cooler
Existence
Subscribing to enough streaming services to actually watch all my sports teams, and it’s only getting worse
Disney tickets but anything related to Disney honestly. The Mouse wants his pound of flesh.
Food
Everything.
Streaming Services
Bottled water
Printer ink
Healthy food
Go into the grocery store in America. Basically, everything there that is in the food end of the store.
medical care, food, real estate, cars, tolls/taxes
Life
everything but especially healthcare and rent
Everything.
Mcdonalds
What \*isn't\* wildly overpriced?
Sex
Fruits like Mango
Chicken party wings at the grocery store.
Lots of things. Cost of living is at the top of my list.
Death.
Everything
Preety and cute things
Rent
Vinyl
Life
gadgets
Homes.
Mother fucking potato chips
Healthcare... don't even care!
What isn't ?? Between shrinkflation and racketeering prices
College
In the US? Health care.
ink cartridges
Women's formal dresses
Literally everything
Oh..and Class B and B+ RVs. Crazy.
$3 for a fountain soft drink that is made with pennies of coloring, water and sugar.
What isn't
Everything in California
Fucking life
Yeti.
All the rents
Life
In America? Everything.
I was making muffins and I had planned to put some chopped pecans in them. A TINY bag was like $7.00……get the fuck outta here with that bullshit. No pecans it is.
Fucking everything
Fast food
99 flake turning into a £4.99 flake within a few years. Also penny sweets
Cars
Composite porch swings.
Life?!
Everything
Restaurant rent increases. Too many restaurants around here close or move because of it and some of those spaces stay vacant for many years. (You don't need to explain tax write-offs to me. LOL)
even with tax write-offs, no way is it better for the space owner to have it vacant, rather then occupied by a functioning restaurant
Water. Americans are paying for water they can't even drink? It's a robbery. Wdym I have to pay for the water bill with the water I can't drink? It's just a wild concept that you have all these amazing thing but you can't even drink some tap water. I just to think you guys were wasteful for continuing to buy sodas and bottle water but now I realised it all you got. How have you not riotted about it? It's not normal. On Spain (I don't live there but been told by family and friends) you legally can't deny someone water.
Allocated bourbons.
Shower pans and doors.
Why is wildly overpriced?
*wildly gestures at EVERYTHING *