Some things that have no business being so costly

[Dr.Destructo]

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

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I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

www.aol.com

I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

A rich many does not spend his money on frivolous stuff, but uses it on stuff he needs. When he amass enough money, then he chooses to buy the best so he wont have to buy it again in a few years. Only stupid people buy stuff that they dont need, just so they can be like the Joneses.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

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There is always the option to not spend your money on overpriced products. You do realize that right?

 

[rampart]

capitalism.

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

www.aol.com

I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

capitalism ="the more you pay, the more its worth."

if it costs too much, don't pay it.

• “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” ― John Maynard Keynes

 

[pknopp]

There is always the option to not spend your money on overpriced products. You do realize that right?

If you want to be a doctor there is no option but to buy textbooks.

I've long argued the idea of textbooks should have ended long ago. You pay a fee to access the info on the internet.

People pay $200 for a textbook and the next year they change the last chapter and the past textbook becomes outdated.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

capitalism.


capitalism ="the more you pay, the more its worth."

if it costs too much, don't pay it.

• “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” ― John Maynard Keynes

When the Biden admin started picking winners and losers in the businesses, this caused many to close, while millions of diseased people came across the border. The supplies became less, the need became more. When those criminals start being deported this will free up plenty of housing, while costs for food and medical will go down also. This is how a responsible government acts, for its own citizens, not those who came here illegally.

 

[1srelluc]

LOL.....I can afford most anything I want within reason, but I still haggle with them like an Arab camel trader.

It's so ingrained I embarrass myself sometimes.....The other day I bought a little 1920s era German made .25acp "Lilliput" vest pocket pistol.

It was priced at $120.00. I could tell it needed a new recoil spring but it was well worth it.

Without even thinking I asked, "can you do any better?"....The owner just looked at me, shook his head, and said "well, at least you are consistent".....He knocked off $10.00.

Oh well, just as I suspected the recoil spring was bad so the $10.00 helped offset the $12.00 spring set.

 

[Polishprince]

iPhones aren't a necessity. There are plenty of less expensive alternatives to buying that particular product.

Obamaphones are an idea, everyone in Cleveland has one.

 

[jotathought]

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

www.aol.com

I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

Yes .. yes .. I assume if you were a business owner, you'd champion the low-wage paycheck, sell your product and services at cost, and pay your employees minimum wage. Right?

 

[mamooth]

A rich many does not spend his money on frivolous stuff, but uses it on stuff he needs. When he amass enough money, then he chooses to buy the best so he wont have to buy it again in a few years. Only stupid people buy stuff that they dont need, just so they can be like the Joneses.

Shame on those people for spending money on useless luxuries like housing and food, right?

 

[hadit]

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

www.aol.com

I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

Interesting. I would assume you are also a champion of paying workers a lot more than they are getting paid now. That's usually a safe bet. If you are, you've walked yourself into a corner, because low prices mean lower wages. An experienced electrician makes more money and charges higher prices than a newbie just starting out.

 

[Hellokitty]

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.

The question for the consumer is not how much it cost Apple to make an Iphone, but how much it would cost the consumer to make their own.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Shame on those people for spending money on useless luxuries like housing and food, right?

To think, that before the 2020 election was stolen, people were very happy with low housing and food costs. But then Joe Bribem got installed and then the misery index went through the roof.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

The question for the consumer is not how much it cost Apple to make an Iphone, but how much it would cost the consumer to make their own.

Iphones are made in China where slave labor is being used. Most Democrats love it slave labor which is why they defend China. I wouldnt use an Apple product even if given to me for free.



Apple suppliers in China use Uighur workers forcibly displaced by the Chinese government, according to a wide-ranging report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). ASPI estimates 80,000 Uighurs have been transferred to factories across China as part of the Chinese government's persecution of the country's minority population.

Apple benefits from forced Uighur labor at its iPhone supplier ...​

www.businessinsider.com/apple-forced-uighur-labor-iphone-factory-2020-3

 

[Concerned American]

16 Things That Have No Business Being As Expensive As They Are

Some products have just become too expensive – and the prices aren't going down. Here are some buys that are no longer worth it.

www.aol.com

I was in retail for most of my younger adult life. And I had the priviledge of seeing the REAL "books", and what the REAL prices are. Along with a couple of managers who told me the really sad and heinous truths about retail in this country.

99% of everything sold in America is heinously over priced because of CORPORATE GREEDMONGERING! If all goods and services in this country were to follow ETHICAL BUSINESS RULES AND PRACTICES....we would all being paying 50% - 80% LESS on most all prices.

This INCLUDES housing, utilities, and all insurances.

A good example are iPhones. It costs Apple $25.00 or less to produce ANY iPhone, yet look at the heinous prices they charge for their Chinese made junk.


Greed sets prices. It's the uneducated, unorganized, trusting consumers that assure the trend will continue indefinitely.

LOL, the most overpriced items, as you correctly point out, are in the tech industry. The I phone is a great example but software is worse. Software made microsoft, adobe and many others. Granted they invested in the development of what basically is a book that they change a word or two going forward to sell as "new and improved." and quit supporting after 10 years. Now they don't even provide you with a disk so that you can keep it forever--all cloud based. As far as the Iphone goes, I haven't donated to Apple, LOL, I don't find the need to have a cell phone but I am still addicted to the tech as much as anyone else.

 

[hadit]

The question for the consumer is not how much it cost Apple to make an Iphone, but how much it would cost the consumer to make their own.

The other question is whether the iPhone represents more value than the dollars it takes to purchase one. Obviously, enough people think it does, because Apple keeps making and selling them. Those who don't want to pay Apple prices have options, which is the way the free market works.

 

[hadit]

LOL, the most overpriced items, as you correctly point out, are in the tech industry. The I phone is a great example but software is worse. Software made microsoft, adobe and many others. Granted they invested in the development of what basically is a book that they change a word or two going forward to sell as "new and improved." and quit supporting after 10 years. Now they don't even provide you with a disk so that you can keep it forever--all cloud based. As far as the Iphone goes, I haven't donated to Apple, LOL, I don't find the need to have a cell phone but I am still addicted to the tech as much as anyone else.

This is why the industry is eagerly embracing cloud computing because they can switch from a one-time purchase model to a subscription model, which generates an ongoing, more reliable revenue stream.

 

[Concerned American]

This is why the industry is eagerly embracing cloud computing because they can switch from a one-time purchase model to a subscription model, which generates an ongoing, more reliable revenue stream.

Tech is all smoke and mirrors. In addition to those subscription software scams, you have the I phone where the purchase is just a small part of what you will pay in years to come with overpriced costs of the service to access all of the other subscriptions, ie office, email, photoshop, autocad, etc. These programs cost thousands only to be discarded and non-supported in just a few years leaving the purchaser with a small frisbee or, in the case of the cloud, NOTHING.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Yes .. yes .. I assume if you were a business owner, you'd champion the low-wage paycheck, sell your product and services at cost, and pay your employees minimum wage. Right?

I don't know if thats a jab, or sarcasm.

In any case, businesses in this country are supposed to follow an ethical process of business for pricing. Corporations price via extreme greed, not for ethical business and reasonable accountability for production.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

I don't know if thats a jab, or sarcasm.

In any case, businesses in this country are supposed to follow an ethical process of business for pricing. Corporations price via extreme greed, not for ethical business and reasonable accountability for production.

At one time i am sure businesses would have ethical treatment of their customers, because they needed the customers to keep coming back. But when Marxists start stealing from businesses and such, those paying customers have to pick up the tab. If we start cutting off the hands of the thieves, and not pay welfare, soon those thieves stop stealing.