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(10-20-2018, 08:10 AM)Swarf_Newbie Wrote: [ -> ]Yep...….£9.94 a belt...ouch!!! plus post.

Anyone else?    

Cheers.

Roy.

I must ask this for my own sanity ... how is 9 bucks for a belt an ouch ?

If shipping is a grater value than a product I am after, such as this consumable. The chance of it being needed at a later date being pretty good, why not get two ?

What do you honestly think the value of a belt should be ? 

I am just asking, I read this outrage all over regarding prices for different necessities. For tools and such, and people think nothing of spending 1k and 400 a month for a frigging cell phone .... is that not somehow nuts?

Pep

I thought the same thing. Then again, if you're used to paying a certain price for something, and the model/size you want is multiple times that, it's an "ouch" regardless of actual cost.


I often tell people that the yardstick for measuring whether you're old or not is how outraged you get at the prices of things you've bought in the past.
"Whada ya mean wiper blades are $20? I used to buy them for 2 bucks!"

(12-07-2018, 09:07 AM)pepi Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-20-2018, 08:10 AM)Swarf_Newbie Wrote: [ -> ]Yep...….£9.94 a belt...ouch!!! plus post.

Anyone else?    

Cheers.

Roy.

I must ask this for my own sanity ... how is 9 bucks for a belt an ouch ? (NOT $9 it works out at around £10 a belt!)


If shipping is a grater value than a product I am after, such as this consumable. The chance of it being needed at a later date being pretty good, why not get two ?

What do you honestly think the value of a belt should be ?  (For the size of the belt, about £5 tops!  )
How much do you think a gallon of diesel should be??? ………. it's around $7.5 a gallon over here, totally off topic, but it's Xmas, and I've had more than one beer!

I am just asking, I read this outrage all over regarding prices for different necessities. For tools and such, and people think nothing of spending 1k and 400 a month for a frigging cell phone .... is that not somehow nuts?

Pep

You pay too much for diesel. Over here it's around $2/gal.

(12-26-2018, 03:21 PM)Vinny Wrote: [ -> ]You pay too much for diesel.  Over here it's around $2/gal.

But that's not an Imperial Gallon.