Market Value
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Market Value
Overpriced:
Belts. Seriously, what the hell? You learn how to make one of these in Leatherworking 101. Simple strap of leather, a few punched holes, and a pretty simple buckling mechanism. Why do you cost so much?
Ties. See belts.
Salads. At a decent restaurant, why does a salad cost as-much or more than a full entree, when most of the raw ingredients are so cheap?
Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks. A single screw seems way harder to make than a tie, yet you cannot buy hundreds of ties for a few bucks.
Batteries. Again, these things are pretty complex, and you can get several of them for a few bucks. It seems way harder to make a battery than to make a salad.
Gasoline. Hear me out. Some companies take some water, filter it through some charcoal, put it in a bottle, and charge you $2 per liter ($8 a gallon) to purchase it at a gas station. Gasoline starts as crude oil deep in the ground, gets extracted, gets transported to a refinery, is refined, gets transported to a terminal, trucked to a gas station, and is pumped into your car (where it has the power to transport thousands of pounds for 20-30 miles). $2-3-ish a gallon right now, about half of which is tax. That seems like a relative good deal.
Belts. Seriously, what the hell? You learn how to make one of these in Leatherworking 101. Simple strap of leather, a few punched holes, and a pretty simple buckling mechanism. Why do you cost so much?
Ties. See belts.
Salads. At a decent restaurant, why does a salad cost as-much or more than a full entree, when most of the raw ingredients are so cheap?
Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks. A single screw seems way harder to make than a tie, yet you cannot buy hundreds of ties for a few bucks.
Batteries. Again, these things are pretty complex, and you can get several of them for a few bucks. It seems way harder to make a battery than to make a salad.
Gasoline. Hear me out. Some companies take some water, filter it through some charcoal, put it in a bottle, and charge you $2 per liter ($8 a gallon) to purchase it at a gas station. Gasoline starts as crude oil deep in the ground, gets extracted, gets transported to a refinery, is refined, gets transported to a terminal, trucked to a gas station, and is pumped into your car (where it has the power to transport thousands of pounds for 20-30 miles). $2-3-ish a gallon right now, about half of which is tax. That seems like a relative good deal.
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Re: Market Value
YES
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20 oz Mt. Dew - $1.69.
2 liter Mt. Dew - $.99
Economies of scale.
2 liter Mt. Dew - $.99
Economies of scale.
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Re: Market Value
Maybe for you. Us old guys had to provide dinner and a movie. That [expletive] added up.Popeye_Card wrote: Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks.
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I thought about adding prostitutes to the undervalued section. They seem to provide a much better value for certain services than a wife.Joe Shlabotnik wrote:Maybe for you. Us old guys had to provide dinner and a movie. That [expletive] added up.Popeye_Card wrote: Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks.
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HahahahaJoe Shlabotnik wrote:Maybe for you. Us old guys had to provide dinner and a movie. That [expletive] added up.Popeye_Card wrote: Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks.
I think a good illustration of how ties and belts are overpriced in full retail is how cheaply you can find them at Marshall's or whatever There are usually racks full of solid options for $9. It's a lot easier than finding a decent [expletive] shirt at one of those places.
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Re: Market Value
Underpriced: Eggs - A chicken has to lay them, someone has to pick them up without breaking them.
Overpriced: Women's bathing suits - the smaller they get, the more expensive they are. Bras, underwear, women's skin care products, purses, shoes, hair care products, and cosmetics. Basically, anything targeted towards women.
Overpriced: Women's bathing suits - the smaller they get, the more expensive they are. Bras, underwear, women's skin care products, purses, shoes, hair care products, and cosmetics. Basically, anything targeted towards women.
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A part of me thinks that a tie, even at $9, is overpriced. The raw material to make the tie is generally more expensive, but how hard is it to sew up a tie vs. a dress shirt?haltz wrote:HahahahaJoe Shlabotnik wrote:Maybe for you. Us old guys had to provide dinner and a movie. That [expletive] added up.Popeye_Card wrote: Underpriced:
Screws. You can get hundreds of them for a few bucks.
I think a good illustration of how ties and belts are overpriced in full retail is how cheaply you can find them at Marshall's or whatever There are usually racks full of solid options for $9. It's a lot easier than finding a decent [expletive] shirt at one of those places.
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Re: Market Value
Overpriced: anything with a brand name printed on it. Whether it's a $100 Nike/Roger Federer shirt, or a $80 trucker cap with a streetwear brand on the front, or a $90 polo shirt, people are paying a premium to walk around advertising the brand they're paying the premium to wear.
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Re: Market Value
This thread, underpriced.