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me: a badly cut white t-shirt made of really thin material that you wouldn't pay £1.99 for in hennes; yours for only £75 in the helmut lang section of selfridges.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 9 September 2002 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.della.com/images-d/catalog/live/10710/product/9/10337445_m.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Pasta strainer, £199.99. I don't give a fuck if it's a designer make, it's a fucking pasta strainer. I can get one for £1.50 in Wilkinson's that'll do the job exactly the fucking same.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

you cd use toby's helmut lang T-shirt and save £124.99!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

rio ferdinand.

― michael w., Monday, 9 September 2002 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

And you can't even use him to drain pasta. (I may be wrong on this point)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

records marked 'balearic' on the hard-to-find-records
site by, like chris rea and late eighties fleetwood mac and such
that cost 16 quid just because once they were played by
e'd up dj's in the 80's at 3a.m. in ibiza as there
weren't enough chill out tunes to pad out the set.

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah. That Liza thing.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

most indian food, unfortunately, as I love it.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 9 September 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems a shame to single just one of this chaps out, but this is fairly ridiculous.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

this=these, sorry

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

cheese. there is a lovely french goat cheese at a local market that is 75/kg.

Textbooks, none under 40 dollars, i just paid 77 for a bible!

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

In Switzerland there was this place where they'd carved a tunnel inside the glacier and carved sculptures and stuff, and at the stand outside they were selling ordinary Kodak film for £35.

(Shouldn't S/PDIF be able to work perfectly on anything vaguely high-end, or am I missing something?)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Indian food is overpriced?!? Where do you live?

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 9 September 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

HONG KONG—If you think Crème de la Mer, at US$150, is the costliest face cream in the world, think again. Japanese cosmetic giant Shiseido has broken all records with the face cream to beat all face creams and end all wrinkles—La Creme by Cle de Peau Beaute, Shiseido’s most prestigious cosmetic and skincare line. At HK$3,500 (about US$450), nothing in the cosmetic world comes between La Creme and perfect skin.

(nothing except a little grey matter)

― Aaron A., Monday, 9 September 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Here in Worcester, the Indian food is not that good, and it is more expensive than the places in DC that I go to. Here I am paying $12-$13 a plate for mediocre curry, whereas in DC, I might pay $8 for the same amount of food, and it will taste MUCH better. I am a college student, so these little differences in price mean a lot.
Indian food is my favorite, so I am not asserting that it is worthless...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

No no, I can believe Indian food is expensive in Worcester, seeing as I've been there. You should start appreciating clam chowder!

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(Shouldn't S/PDIF be able to work perfectly on anything vaguely high-end, or am I missing something?)

You're not missing anything, Graham. If the source ain't broken and the receiver locks onto the signal and re-clocks it, then digital cable 'quality' is a non-issue. However, this is the lunatic world of high-end audio where *everything* matters, so several hundred dollars for a digital coax link is merely reassuringly expensive. I guess it's more jewellery than functional item at that level.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess it's more jewellery than functional item at that level.

The designer's fondness for cigars & Scotch may have an influence on the price too ...

― David Moore (Mooro), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Any food in England. Then, the exhange rate to $ is horrible right now.

― Dave Beckhouse, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"You should start appreciating clam chowder!"

chaodaaaaaah??

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Here in Paris, the Sunday edition of the New York Times costs 12€50.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Any food in England. Then, the exhange rate to $ is horrible right now.

I thought the exhange rate was pretty good! I'm saving about £20 a month on my U.S.A college loan repayments. I think the last time the Pound was worth $1.55 was back in the mid 90s.

― marianna, Wednesday, 11 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I paid £75 for a MAINS ADAPTER yesterday, for my laptop (probably could have gotten it much cheaper by mail order, but it was kind of urgent, plus I inadvertently got my parents to give me the money for it)

Are you really meant to haggle on TCR, or is that just a myth?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 12 September 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

You really are meant to haggle on TCR.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

good grief yes, ask for their best price, then knock a few quid off that. Helps if you have cash.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I guess I would have in the shady stacked to the ceiling places further up, but this was in the shiny Micro Anvika shop by Sainsbury's and it didn't feel right.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I know what you mean Graham. That shop does give you the impression that trying it would be like haggling in Sainsbury's.

Has anyone ever tried to haggle in Sainsbury's?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

there is one heroic electronix shop at the top of TCR that typically runs its prices higher than everyone else but then refuses to haggle! you tell them it's cheaper next door and they're like "so? go there then." i don't think they sell one thing all day.

now THAT'S how i'd run my shop. "raggo!"

― obb zemko (bob), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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