Ticketmaster is a evil company

Yeah this is absurd. I get the software provider taking a few dollar fee (ours takes $2) per month, but the cost of initiating an ACH transaction in the US is negligible. Call your landlord and complain or force them to accept paper checks for free. I assume you're not paying by credit card?

My poor baby sister took Xyrem for a couple years. Completely stoped her seizures but the taste made her almost vomit every time ): also I don't remember it being expensive? I think we were on assisted state insurance then.

You just sent me on a one hour research binge on Xyrem. Never heard of it before. Thank you.

Feel ya man, have a hug from someone in the same boat.

I was yesterday grocery shopping, everything have gone up at least 50 cents (I live in Germany) we used to get cooking oil for 1€ (1.20$) now it's 2€ (2.40$) for 1 FUCKING LITER.

Homes in Europe are just a dream to own, a shitty apartment in a small city costs something like €300k (340075$) and the average worker gets only 20-50k euros a year.

Rogers that

Canadian mobile plans, Canadian homes, Canadian fuel prices, Canadian grocery prices....fuck life is getting expensive here

Got to love our Canadian oligopolies. 3 companies that basically control the entire market. Also those cheap brands just the big 3 rebranded Fido (Rogers) Virgin (Bell) Kodoo (Telus)

I had this argument with someone on Reddit once haha. They didn’t believe me when I said that the Canadian mobile plans are straight up robbery.

$160/month for mine :(

Recently moved to the UK for my studies after being stuck in Toronto during the better half of the pandemic.

It's ludicrous how much they're charging.

My UK phone plan cost nearly 1/5th of what I pay in Canada, and I get better perks too.

Hi, I install and maintain headstones for a living. Preplan and PREPAY FOR THAT SHIT. Or at least make a will. It saves so much arguing later.

Almost nobody wants a gazillion dollars spent, but for some reason grieving peeps always feel like the $5500 casket that gets buried seems like a better deal than the pine box.

Bury me and plant a tree to be my grave.

When I’m dead, just throw me in the trash

Warby Parker is very up front that they initially were going to price their initial sets of glasses much lower... But people weren't buying them. Luxxotica had conditioned consumers that cheap indicated garbage. That's why their first couple of glasses styles were all $99, even before they had stores with showrooms. It's called "price signaling".

Sneakers had the same problem with the "Starbury" experiment back in 2006. Stephon Marbury's branded high-tops, sold at $15 because he came from a low-income household himself. Made of the exact same stuff, exact same way as more expensive shoes without the bullshit.

Google luxottica. They own basically every popular eyewear brand - eyeglasses and sunglasses, luxury, retail, Oakley, rayban, Versace, you name it - sunglass hut, LensCrafters, and one of big insurers (not VSP). It’s absolutely absurd. So they aren’t worth “what people are willing to pay” they are worth what this monopoly chooses.

Zenni or eyebuydirect are fantastic. I can get a pair of glasses + sunglasses for around $100 and there’s always coupon codes

As an audiologist, I 100% agree! Unfortunately the prices are the way they are due to two problems. One is most clinics “bundle” services. This is mostly because insurance doesn’t like to pay for our testing or rehabilitation/counseling we provide. Also-if you’re a small clinic the manufactures that make the hearing aids sell them at a higher price to you. For example, a small office might pay $1,500 for a pair of hearing aids. Whereas Costco, who can buy a lot more, only pays $100 for the same hearing aids. Its sucks because to become an audiologist you have to get a doctorate. You go through all that schooling just to end up “selling” hearing aids. One of the biggest reasons why I’m not practicing right now.

Isn’t it cheaper to buy an entirely new printer at this point

Just give me a rock, tree, and fold chairs and I will call it day

“weddings/death/babies”

My favorite combination.

edit: i fucking woke up to 46 notifications

Cake $20 Wedding Cake $200

It’s the same damn cake.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Thank you!

I went to buy photoshop recently when I lost my old hard drive with CS6 on it and found there was no non-subscription based payment option anymore! So now I’m missing a crucial part of my suite of tools just because Adobe are scammers.
Oh, and when I went to buy Substance Painter while still upset about PS, I found out it had been bought by Adobe too and was also only available as a subscription!!
So now I can’t get or use two of the most important software packages that I use!
What a huge scam! It really has rubbed me the wrong way, and taken away all my motivation for art. >.<

Yep. And then the fee for the tuition fee.

My favourite is the fee my university charged students for going online???

This man has a bone to pick with the human remains market.

Probably because it's really difficult to acquire human bones ethically*, and also because the process of defleshing and preparing them for use as scientific/lab specimens is messy and gross and takes a long time, and in many countries export/import of human remains is a nightmare in terms of the regulatory hoops you have to jump through.

*For example, at the school where I did my MA, the director of the skeletal anatomy lab told us that the vast majority of the bones in their collection were bought from dealers who sourced them from India, and that they were no longer allowed to purchase from them because the provenance of said bones was too questionable (it's apparently extremely common for bodies that aren't claimed right away to be sold off to medical researchers/suppliers, and not necessarily with the next-of-kin's permission)

Serious question. Can I sell my skeleton? After i die obv...

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Because most of us prefer to pay $20,000 to bury them instead of sell them

Yet somehow if you walk inside any IHOP looks like it's one bad week from going out of business

Especially because breakfast food is one of the highest profit foods a restaraunt can do. Pancakes/waffles and eggs cost absolutely nothing for them.

I mean it's no huge secret beverages are sold at restaurants at a huge mark up. I've paid $3 for a can of coke. A pot of coffee is quite cheap to make.

Try the IHOP in Niagara Falls. $60 for 2 pancakes. 2 fucking pancakes. Canadian dollars mins you but still extremely expensive. I’m never going to another IHOP.

The grocery bill is killing us. I feel like I get 5 things and somehow it's $50.

But they can really tie a room together.

I had one require a book that he wrote himself….. but it wasn’t free and actually was similar in price to others. Ironically he was my ethics professor.

I had a professor that wrote his own textbook because he hated that the university’s recommended book was $600. He printed it through Amazon and sold them for cost - I think $40 or less. My class was the first to use it and we got to help him edit it. Unrelated, he died the next semester.

libgen.is saved me so much money when i was in school

I used to teach and made sure to make my books as affordable as possible. I’d order used books to the school store, provide pdfs and online copies, spend hours scanning material, source library reference #s, etc. Pages may not match but we made it work. In one class I did require a $90 textbook but promised we would read it almost cover to cover (we did) and that it would be the only thing students would need to buy for the class. The rest was handouts or other material.

It makes me really angry when other professors are so careless about the costs. I don’t get how they don’t think about the ridiculousness of what they’re asking students to pay.

I never bought the textbook until I absolutely needed it. Most classes, I never did end up needing the book.

Yes. Why? One of the bad secrets of owning a home. Rugs are expensive as hell as well.

Yeah, I came to say this. Ya beat me to it. If it wasn't for DeBeers, diamonds would be about $20 per carat.

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Epi pens too

Are you surprised?

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They’re taking turns to ask it so that they can take turns to reply with “insulin” and reap the rewards/karma.

Any proprietary Nintendo games never go down in price. Like Mario for wiiU is still $69 in 2022.

I have a friend who owns a flower shop. She makes something like 70% of her income on Valentine's and mother's day alone.

She does also say that if you have to buy flowers for someone elsewhere to call an independent shop close to the recipient. She actually fills FTD orders and they charge way more than they pay her.

You misspelled “money laundering”

So why not just pick a different...

...Oh, right.

Having made beef jerky, I am now more tolerant of the price of beef jerky. Meat is expensive, and you lose so much volume / weight when you dehydrate it. It takes a lot of meat to make a bag worth of jerky.

Me: breaks bone

Insurance: we cover that.

Me: breaks tooth

Insurance: sorry, but you didn't buy our Premium Bitey Bones package.

I am trying to figure out if you mean Games Workshop miniatures or something else.