Went past a car dealership- started with oz btw and saw a Corolla Ascent 2012 model for $32k, but it included few years warranty. Just wondering if anyone came up on other rip off items.
Corolla Ascent 2012 model advertised for 32k (realistically worth 10k)
Njk ignition coils for a Renault…. Half the price delivered from uk compared to local supplier …. Turns out they are made in Victoria Australia.
And petty much everything else is a rip-off
Euro cars, you're always going to pay a premium for parts
Cocaine
$4 Coffee..
Well a $4 coffee can't cost $2…
Bubble tea is a rip off now. I can't afford a $7.8 drink
The way i think about it is can you drink a 2L Milk.. because that costs only $2 lol
I remember maybe 10 years ago when bubble tea was $3.50 those were some good times
Most Expensive CANNED CHEESE I have ever seen in my life.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bega-Canned-Cheese-6-Cans-Best-P…
PS
They are not clowns they are killer clown which kill your wallet.
Printer ink
“Swarovski crystals “ : stones worth absolutely nothing
Pandora charms : $50 each for a “ personalized charm “ which no one is looking at
Bevilles / prouds ect with their gold coated silver filled jewelry but charging nearly the same price as real gold
All excellent marketing though
Let's be fair, diamonds aren't worth anything either.
Everything retail in Australia is generally a rip off and sold at a huge mark up this is due to commercial leases and wages of workers being high.
But if you want over-priced crap go to any farmers markets in Victoria i went to one and no shit i saw a lady trying to flog rocks/crystals which she swears helps heal alignments just buy having them near you (i guess?) for $40+ a rock!
But the biggest rip off i think I've ever seen is Dusk and T2 those places basically exponentially increase the prices for candles and tea i reckon the markup would be +2000% on some of the products they sell..but people still buy it!
Lol hilarious the rocks at the farmers market
Unfortunately too many people love their overpriced tea and candles
T2 tea is rock bottom in quality. I would never recommend it to anyone even if it was reasonably priced.
As in same quality as supermarket tea ?
Really? I drink them everyday at work (work pays) and its daylight above compared to supermarket brands like Twinnings.
You want crap tea? Try pickwick!
So do I. Let's take their sencha for example. Steeped properly between 70-80 degrees, 30 seconds, the colour is an obvious stale brown indicative of low quality tea leaves. I can get this kind of crap sencha from any Asian grocer.
Next, their flavoured teas. Work stocks a lot and they all taste like plain hot water with trace amounts of flavour following their brewing instructions. If you add double the amount, it still tastes like plain hot water. In order to avoid any possibility of work's teas being very old or over-oxidised, I've purchased some teas directly from them. Tastes the same.
Rock bottom.
Try Yorkshire tea. Well priced and great flavour.
Work doesn't pay. You do!
Who's tea would you recommend?
+1 for Dusk
During Xmas they had these little Santa resin dolls for $$24
Daiso 3 doors down had exact same dolls for $2.80
I find anything that has undergone a hipster or otherwise "fancy" phase gets ridiculously overpriced.
That's right … I'm looking at you cafes with $20 tiny burgers, small fake frying cage of fries and tiny juice-bottle served coffees. And thanks to shows like bloody Masterchef some restaurants particularly tapas doing tiny portions on everyday items, where the price is jacked sometimes cos of only one minor ingredient. You know, dishes where where a single piece of ravioli works out to be $3, or a $4 pork dumpling cos it happens to served at a posh restaurant and not the local Shanghai Street lol
/end rant
Local pizza place trying to charge $35 for a family size pizza. Absolutely delusional.
https://b.zmtcdn.com/data/menus/233/16563233/ec6158da564c753…
Also another local pizza place - even better $42 for the 45cm = 17" pizza. Seriously, this area sucks.
https://b.zmtcdn.com/data/menus/383/16561383/74ac584e6f9c8b2…
I'm happy to pay $$$ for great quality made pizza. Not everyone likes Cardboard Dominos or Pizza Hut
Looool great quality pizza doesn't cost $35 or $42. Sydney CBD has great Italian pizza for much less which is saying a lot. Have you seen the pictures of the pizzas for these places? Looks like any typical takeaway pizza shop that should have a price ceiling of no more than $25.
ANY FROM A HOTEL MINI BAR!
YES TOTALLY AGREE
Thanks for shouting as I couldn't hear yopu before as I was wearing a towel :)
LOUD. NOISES!
Cinema popcorn, drinks and pretty much all other confectionaries on offer!
the Cinema ticket itself!
I thought Amazon would have been cheaper, but really its usually more expensive than Ebay, as you are paying more for easier support if issues occur, and usually get faster delivery.
It is only really worth it when you find things posted on OzBargain.
Balenciaga sneaker
Anything from a vending machine
One thing I've noticed is tools. I've been buying a lot of tools, majority of which are from Amazon US.
Once an item no longer has stock from Amazon US, then a local seller's price will be shown by default, and that's usually 2-5 times Amazon US's price (including shipping and GST).
You can see a common theme from this. Here businesses just price things that way because they know there will always be people buying.
Same thing on eBay. Local sellers prices are just ridiculous.
People should just google 'Juicero'.
Idiots like this on ebay who think they can sell a PS Vita for close to $1000.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-PS-Vita-with-WiFi-3G-Little…
What muppets.
Lmao
I've noticed this seller as well…
WTF are they doing?
There are many sellers like this on ebay. I'll send them a message asking if it's a mistake. Guess what the answer is everytime?? No, it's not a mistake.
Clowns.
it does say 8 have been sold though :!!
pics of the corolla with the 32k price tag or it never happened
Lawyers, accountants and dentists
Vets on top of that
i agree but we need them
5min vaccination-$80
i work for a law firm so i have some understanding of the costs (i'm not a lawyer). the money they make, especilly straight out of law school isn't that much when you consider they have insurance, rent, hecs, continuing professional training, database access fees and the million and one other expenses other professions have
80 cent homebrand paracetamol vs $5 Panadol…
that's prob one of the worst !
panadol osteo is long release which is good for some conditions
I don't know if there's long release homebrand paracetamol…
(i don't believe the following coming, from a medical background)
some of the gel ones etc. are absorbed faster (and being medical means I know they are excreted faster too!))
typically for anti-epileptics, sometimes the generics are absorbed differently and I make sure the patient doesn't change the brands - if they started on generic they stay on that and vice versa for the originals.
There sure is a homebrand extended release paracetamol, just ask for it at the pharmacy.
Just take half now and half later.
Bunnings
really? i always see trades buying there so i figure must be relatively cheap
Where else would they go…
Lowest prices are just at the beginning
Playstation games. Unless you're a game collector, which is pointless anyway, there is zero gaming benefit to buying brand new over purchasing second hand.
wait till teh sales at bigw- they usually have them for $20 like gta 5 etc
You may be happy to wait to play a game but when I want to play a game asap I'm buying it on release
That's obviously the exception. But if you can hold off a couple of weeks, there's no disadvantage to buying it second hand for $20 less.
You can generally buy it at its lowest price, and if you finish the game in a week or two sell it on eBay for close to what you paid (if not sometimes more).
For example, I bought Red Dead 2 for $49 through an Amazon deal and ended up selling it for $65. Pretty worthwhile.
Start high (too high) and make the other party take compromises to get the price they want?
ANYTHING to do with weddings!
Yeah
Watch the price go up for a photo shoot when the word wedding in thrown in
P.S and the prices of roses on valentines day
Especially when you have lots of partners, you should get a discount
yea ridciulous , i think we should organise a reasonable wedding company called "wedding and weeding" we do both for <$10,000, by OzWedding enterprises
A bloke offered me his car for 27k, following week a dealer had it listed for 36k 😂😂😂
Drinks at a bar or pub needs to be mentioned to the list Crown charged me 12 for a shot of tequila The other night WTF! The whole bottle would be 40$ consists of at least ~25shots that is ~$300 for a bottle of shots - thats a 625% mark up!
To add insult to injury spirits dont expire so it us essentially a rip off at the highest level
I'm an accountant working in the entertainment industry.
Benchmark for Cost of sales for spirits ranges from 8% - 20%
In an establishment like Crown should be aiming for 10%, so they are actually selling themselves short with only 625% markup.
Well everyone knows you pay more when you drink at a bar.
But the question is why?
Same reason you pay more for goods from a bricks and mortar store vs. buying from overseas; rents, wages and other business running costs. Alcohol can't be too cheap, demand needs to be suppressed.
Add to that top shelf spirits, I know someone whose job it was at a nightclub to fill up the spirit bottles with the generic one they bought in bulk.
Mobile phones and service. Expensive phones could arguably still be good value, considering you use your phone every single day. But you can now get 95% of a $1500 phone for under $500, I don't know how anyone can justify the cost of a 'premium' phone. Same goes for phone service, most people wouldn't notice the difference in service between Aldi mobile and Telstra.
Heading to Taiwan in a few weeks, my wife will probably get a new iphone (SE) battery replaced and fitted for under $40, compared to close to $100 in most other places, if not more.
Agree on phone service. you can get unlimited calls, text messages and 2GBs or more data for only $10 a month. Yet so many people are paying inflated prices or for absurd amount of data they could never use.
Where do all these people live that are paying $5 for coffee? I live in Brunswick(Melbourne) which is considered pretty hipster and work in the CBD. Coffee anywhere I go is around $4 to $4.20?
I know at least two places: Perth ($6 coffees are norm) and Caulfield, around $5
Perth is really expensive but wages are much higher then the rest of Aus so it is give and take
Do you have a current source for the wages being higher?
@Trying2SaveABuck: That's somewhat misleading as it includes a disproportionately high mining wages. Median wage would probably be a better representation of affordability.
@gimme: Not really that argument only works if you are talking Australia wide regarding essentials for living - a state on its own is dictated more by the current market forces and what people can/cant afford. - Thus WA as a whole has a higher salary then all the other states bar the ACT so things are naturally more expensive.
It is better to be a high earner in a expensive area then a low earner in a cheap one. Ideally it is best to be a high earner in a cheap area but that generally goes against market forces.
Hence why there is a load of high paying jobs in Sydney but the cost of living in the CBD is though the roof
anybody say house prices yet?
This i donno if i agree with - i'd more included to say stamp duty but house prices are actually a price set by what people are willing to pay opposed to a fixed price - unless you are building
If anything house prices are the most fairly price set item in the country because it all comes down to supply and demand…. - it is just unfortunate that the supply cost is expensive in comparison to wages and wage growth
They are not fairly set because the govt restricts supply which builds biased demand and the govt encourages "investors" hoarding multiple properties which hikes the prices up further for those that own 0, so im sure somebody will also buy a 32k corolla but its still a rip off
Yes and No you cant 'create more' land every body wants to live in areas with the beach/city/best schools etc - just opening land to build a new area doesnt improve housing affordability
Government also helps first home buys with bonuses and stamp duty concessions, though i feel you pain with investors just hoarding properties (esp Overseas investors)
The only thing i think that would truly help the first home buys is make owner occupied loans tax deductible (interest of the loan) that would encourage people to buy their own home oppose to rent in area they cannot ever afford to buy in…
As for the line about the Corolla well you are right there is no answer for stupid
@Trying2SaveABuck: yeah but the thread is about things that are a rip off and house prices in Australia are, you said they are fairly priced and I proved they are not. If there wasn't people that owned 10 20 or 30 properties each prices may be at a fair level.
finite land, everybody wanting to live in good spots are the same arguments like money doesn't buy happiness made by rich people to fool the poor
@monkeyfood: How did you prove they are not? If anything ppl owning multiple properties means they are fairly if not under-balued because those ppl believe the properties are more likely to raise in value not reduce… people who own a load of houses arent buying them to lose money…
There IS only a finite amount of land you cannot make more you can only open up new areas but that doesnt increase the amount of homes in estabilished highly sort after areas.
The only areas where properties are over valued are the small number of areas where renting is financially better then taking a loan out and buying ….
@Trying2SaveABuck: yet they are and have been falling in price since 2017, so all the people that bought them at the top didn't buy to lose money yet they are, so yeah I proved my point
@monkeyfood: There are ppl that invested in apple shares and sold before the iphone came out they lost money too doesnt mean apple was a bad investment they were bad investors…
In simple terms in 15 years if you think those ppl with houses in the Sydney CBD will not make money that is fair enough i wont argue with a stupid person….
@Trying2SaveABuck: there is no point arguing with a stupid person you are right, no need further reply
Brisbane bus ticket to airport at $18 while other buses go 3 times the distance for $5
or evevn the sydney airport station entry fee costs @20 dollars extra or something…and they blame airport tax…well if i get dropped i dont pay it right so what is this bs about tax.
Sydney they place that costs more for public transport what a joke
the new sydney tram system- boy that will be a big failure srs. I always think trams are just like long buses- they have to stop at colour lights etc, what's the point why not just get more buses or train tracks
YOu'd be crackers to buy em…do you suggest buying them separatelY?
We all know ghosts can't eat food, i suppose you'd think it's a rip off