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Items that are scandalously priced.

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    #32
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    RTE. The crap they show doesn't warrent what we have to pay for a TV licence.


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    #33
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    Delacent wrote: »
    SKY tv.

    €360 a year for channels that are mostly free to air and have almost 15min of advertising an hour.

    We cancelled our Sky for that reason. They really simply priced themselves out.


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    #34
    ben.schlomo
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    davo10 wrote: »
    RTE. The crap they show doesn't warrent what we have to pay for a TV licence.

    Which is why many of us don't.


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    #35
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    Treadhead wrote: »
    But yet we don't live there... I could get a beer for 65cents in Vietnam - that's about as relevant.

    No it's not, because the cost of everything is less in Vietnam and it's not in a common market with Ireland. Broadly speaking everything in the Netherlands or Germany is the same price as here, except for alcohol, which in Ireland is scandalously overpriced (in supermarkets anyway)


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    #36
    AndrewJRenko
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    I know we have all heard about stuff like printer ink, perfume etc being way overpriced, but anyone else got anything they have seen recently that shocked them in terms of just how much they were charging?

    I'll start with replacement heads for my Philips Sonicare tootbrush. These are the ones that fit my model
    http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/3306237/Trail/searchtext%3EPHILIPS+SONICARE.htm
    €44.99 for 4 plastic heads, probably made in China for a Euro. Shocking. And I'll not even get into the price for some of the toothbrushes themselves.
    You can get these heads at very reasonable prices online. I bring in a batch once a year or so.

    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/1-12x-SONICARE-TOOTHBRUSH-HEADS-COMPATIBLE-WITH-PHILIPS-HX6013-HX6011-PHILLIPS-/252399093382?var=&hash=item3ac4288686:m:mx9uBsOP94kzbRPbJM6QdhQ


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    #37
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    Love how we expect cheap cheap products yet hound for a much higher minimum wage / social welfare.


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    #38
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    davo10 wrote: »
    RTE. The crap they show doesn't warrent what we have to pay for a TV licence.

    The last couple of weeks have shown us exactly why we need a well-funded and independent media.


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