Just noticed that MFI charged me £39 for a cooker hood duct kit (consisting of some flexi hose and a wall vent) that Screwfix sell for £3.17. They sly'd that one in! Little scamps... Can anyone top that?
Andy
I was on Pipex 1Mbit (fixed) paying =A323.44 - moved to Sky (potentially=20 up to 16Mbit, but in reality due to line length / noise i'm getting only=20
4x the speed of my old line, but at only =A310 per month instead.It doesn't beat it in direct terms, but the =A3/speed ratio is about the=20 same :-}
snipped-for-privacy@no.spam declared for all the world to hear...
PC World charging £17.99 for 1 ADSL microfilter. I got 3 from ebuyer at £1.01 each plus a quid for post.
The price of USB cables in high street shops.
MBQ
Nah, a give-away.
Try HDMI cables. :))
A small bottle of water at Gatwick Airport (after Security!) is £1.80
How about anything from
yes, they're right up there, aren't they....
However, part of this is probably use of unnecessary materials as well as margin.
I'm surprised at you slumming it in such a cheap emporium :-)
2m IEC kettle lead for only £3,065. It does have 24 Hyper Pure VariStrand silver conductors insulated with Teflon for very low resistance though.For markup though it must be
Looking further the shelves at
probably count as greatest markup - £1,500 for a set of shelves.
"Don't be fooled into thinking this is just a simple piece of wood; each piece is handmade by a skilled scraftsman. More air than wood, Torlyte is constructed from individually fabricated grids and skins, requiring numberous complex machine and manual operations. All this naturally comes at a price, but we believe that the sonic payoff makes it an extremely worthwhile investment."
Might be because of the price of the scraftsmen - it's a rare trade although numberous machines are also quite unusual. I suspect the comment about more air than wood is particularly appropriate.
You don't *really* think I'd buy anything from there do you?
As soon as one sees something with a 5* review by one hi-fi mag and one from another, there's clearly something adrift.
2mWhat
a scam. I could knock those out on the lathe really easily. Fancy twiddles as well.
£4.99 expensive then?
But they are selling a warm fuzzy feeling to the stupid. There are plenty of them about too. As long as they don't start claiming that their warm fuzzy feeling digital (like HDMI) cables actually produce better sound or vision than the £5 ALDI ones they are not doing anything wrong.
Ah while you are about!
Can I replace Li laptop cells in the battery with NiMh?
It's not Sunday yet.
No. Well not easily. The Li pack includes the electronics to control the charging.
The performance of ASDL filters varies enormously. That's not to say the cheap one is worst, though.
The buggars at Gatwick confiscated my 12.5p lighter (one of eight from Poundland)... "because it might be a bomb Sir" Once airside I found that they had inferior non-refillable lighters on sale for £1.25.
I feel a much, much safer citizen now that pseudo-science profiteering has now got to make its mark on national security and Government thinking.
Steve
You would think that being knowledgable would bring power.
In politics it doesn't, the opposite is the case.
Those who have power but not knowledge jealously guard their powers, whilst ensuring anyone knowledgeable is kept well down the pecking order as a potential threat.
DG
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