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)
Funny as a hat?
Fun New York Shirt?
I doubt that was on purpose.
prob to get someone completely clueless/.?
Probably someone clueless put the wrong price on the wrong car.
hah..the work experience guy.
i doubt it though everything else was correct, car , model, number of Kms anyway
@funnysht: I worked at a car dealership where the lazy new car salesman beloved it when a customer pointed to their car and said it was a ‘97 civic, gave him a good trade in and they bought the car. It was only when we started the trade in inspection we found it was a ‘92 civic, they couldn’t wholesale for what they gave as trade in so tried to sell it on the used lot for $10k.
@[Deactivated]: @2 test tickles
I had a friend who traded in the V6 Ford Falcon (can't remember the series, think it was 5th gen) and the trade in guys said "oh, last of the great V8s". My friend didn't correct him and got a much better deal…
@smartazz104: A mate of mine keeps referring to his Liberty as a V6. I've explained to him what a horizontally opposed engine is but it's like talking to a dog.
Stores will place ripoff items in prominent places because that causes more sales to occur for normal priced items.
This happens because of an automatic unconscious process called the anchoring effect whereby seeing numbers changes your perception of value.
Yep. It's called "framing effects". A person's decision is influenced by the way information or things are presented to them. They see a 2012 corolla for $32k but next to it they see a fully optioned 2014subaru liberty with less k's for $20k when the market value for the liberty might be $16k.
Dominos if you buy without a coupon, it always makes me anxious when companies buy like 15 pizzas for some job thing and don't bother with the coupon, like dude you have no idea how much money you wasted.
Also the old school Monster HDMI cables, no idea if they're better now? But $200 bucks for a HDMI cable https://www.harveynorman.com.au/monster-ultrahd-gold-35ft-hd…
oy yea rip off. i remember paying $30 for them and still a rip off
it always makes me anxious when companies buy like 15 pizzas for some job thing and don't bother with the coupon
It should make you happy. They are subsidizing your discounts.
I remember a Monster cable demo where they had one HDMI Monster Cable vs a coaxial cable…
Single RCA? 😂
Sorry, that's the one..single yellow rca :)
oh my god when I worked for harvey norman selling tv's, someone did this on the monster display and would tell customer "see this is a normal HDMI cable vs a monster gold cable"….
That's evil
Can't say I've ever purchased Domino's without a coupon. I would stop going there if they stopped the coupons.
According the their previous financial report, circa 55% of their customers still buy without coupons. Either directly instore, online or by calling.
There has got to be a market for something there somehow or something.
Its classic price discrimination - some people don't care about the price, and you can extract the max amount of money out of them, but stil be competitive for the price conscious segment, with enough of a barrier (the effort of finding a coupon) that those who dont care wont bother, but the price conscious will.
@Gmetal: yep that's why i will not use price matching. if you want my business sell the item at a good price.
allowing officeworks to get both the $200 sales and the $100 price match sale, will eventually put the competitor with the $100 price out of business. and then OW will be the only option and be selling for $200.
Sheep
That's because 55% sales are probably $5 every day value range.
I never buy a HJ or KFC without a coupon. I cant remember the last time I paid the displayed counter price…
Three cheers for mobile phone apps…
I have seriously never bought a Domino pizza.
You're not missing out on much.
My elderly neighbours recently bought a new TV from OzB's friend, Harvey Norman. They got a pretty good deal on the TV and soundbar but were sold a $120 HDMI cable. They are totally clueless about tech and asked me to set up the TV for them. I took one look at the cable and told them to take it straight back for a refund and I gave them one of my, many, spare HDMI cables. Fortunately HN refunded them for the cable with no argument
But the TV quality won't be at its best.
This probably isn't a bad tactic, agree to buy something overpriced but screw them down on the main purchase, they might be happy to go as cheap as possible on the main product to get their spiv on another, then you could probably even change your mind at the checkout as opposed to returning the item.
As a business operator, I will happily overpay for the most useless junk; but as a consumer I'd be damned if I pay for a 99 cent app without first waiting at least 3 months in case it goes on sale and then using my Google Rewards money to pay for it. Different frame of mind when it's someone else's credit card.
This is a strange one, cause I am an app dev. I try and work this out, because I am the same as you! We don't think twice about buying a coffee or a pie, but we analyse the crap out of a 99c app!
That said, enough people do pay to make it worthwhile…
I'm the opposite, Don't really care about paying under $5 for an app because of all the free google opinion reward money, but will save on food whenever I can.
How does one earn Google Rewards?
Is it through an app?
If so, can you recommend one?
It is an app, called Google Rewards. Not sure what else you need to know?
So I'd take it, it's not your own business then?
My parents often walk in and buy pizza without a coupon lol it's ridiculous.
Your parents still eat dominos? That's the larger travesty.
A few years ago, I found a then 3 year model old MacBook for sale at double its launch retail price at Domayne.
The reasoning was it had a cd drive and a massive 500gb HD.
The spec sheets next to the computers made it look more powerful than the current get models.
Many things in Myer and Harvey Norman. I can’t buy anything in Myer without 50% discount, even with the discount, it’s still expensive.
yeah i basically buy from myer when it's 40% off, better options are H&M
The quality is chalk and cheese though.
Got given a $10 voucher from Myer, min spend $20. There wasn't anything of value in the entire store that couldn't be bought for less elsewhere, even factoring in the voucher. Literally couldn't pay me to shop there these days.
I had the same at Rebel Sport. $50 gift voucher and couldn't spend as everything i wanted was 30% cheaper elsewhere. In the end I just had to treat the gift voucher as a discount and disregard it was "my money".
Anything under the SMEG brand.
I found their dishwashers to be far superior to Bosch from experience.
Opposite for me, Smeg dishwasher only lasted till end of warranty and had many repairs up to that point.
But agree that Smeg products are terrible. Had some extremely bad experienes.
Unusual. According to Choice testing & brand satisfaction scores, across a wide range of whitegoods, Miele and Bosch tend to come out best quite regularly…
I found their dishwashers to be far superior to Bosch from experience.
Depends if the Bosch ones were made in Turkey or Germany. The Turkish made ones are utter garbage.
Got a SMEG dishwasher that is still functional after repeated physical abuse by a two year old. Would buy SMEG branded in future based off this experience.
Love our entry level smeg dual gas electric oven. 60cm wide prob cost $1200
We have a SMEG fan oven, six years on & it’s been flawless. Cost a little more but I’m a fan, built to last
Did it make you feel SMUG?
Anything sold in David Jones qualifies. Myer is similar but probably not as bad. Hell, anything sold in Australa with our Aussie tax seems to be a rip off.
Some specific things that come to mind:
- Software
- Houses
- Rugby union/league jerseys
- Luxury cars
- Fuel
- Dyson Hair Dryers
- Bottled water
- Not an object, but most Tradie services (especially plumbers)
- Again not an object, but Foxtel service
- this list could go on forever..thank goodness for sites like OzBargain!
The Dyson hair dryer is actually pretty good. the wife uses her daily for the last 18 months. far more reliable than Remingtons/other brands.
Yes it is quite good, but can't argue about it being completely over priced, rip off.
I bought one the other year as a gift, and quite happy with it. But no way would I dare mention the price to my wife :)
i paid $350 or so for the Professional series, wouldn't pay RRP!
I actually think tradies are okay… If you know what you are after.
Most of the time, clueless people get ripped off (and hard too) because they have absolutely no clue and are wilfully ignorant about their own problems.
For example, if you call a plumber because you have a leak somewhere in the house, and can provide no further information, that's the recipe for a big bill. I can't blame the plumber either because their job now requires multiple site visits, diagnosis and they have to ensure symptoms of the problems are fixed.
If you tell the plumber you have a cracked PVC fitting in a stud wall for your cold water and you'd fix the water damage separately, the plumber's job is now to rock up and fix the fitting so it doesn't leak anymore. The scope of the job is small and he should be adequately tooled for the day.
And yet unless you're a trained plumber yourself you couldn't know that without getting a plumber/tradie in the first place to tell you.
So, what are you going on about again? You think everybody should undergo a 6 month apprenticeship for every trade in order to cover all their bases before they're qualified to own a house? Ridiculous.
You don't need to be a trained plumber to find where a basic leak comes from.
If something is leaking and the plasterboard is already soaked, rip it open. You're not going to unsoak dry wall. Soak up the water and the damp, place some dry tissue to dried pipe. Where the tissue gets wet, follow that lead.
Tools needed - towels and tissue.
If you choose to look at the wet plaster and go, "jeez, omgosh, I'll dial one number and come back to a perfectly repaired home", fair enough. There's a price to pay for that. I'm not willing to pay a qualified plumber to mop water.
Ps. I'm not saying the average handyman can diagnose everything but many common issues are identifiable with barely any tools.
@[Deactivated]: Nar (profanity) that tradies are a rip off not because they are expensive but because they are expensive and f***n unreliable.
@Trying2SaveABuck: Had Friday off waiting for the electrician to come around, organised two weeks prior. He never showed or called. Tradies in regional towns are a joke.
@BartholemewH: Mate tell me about it called a bloke to come look at my mums roof he is like im in the next suburb ill be there in 60mins did the no show!
Another one i paid him for materials upfront and did a runner never turned up to do the job!
Just because someone dosent know exactly where the problem is dosent make it ok for tradies to lie about what work really needs to be done
Exactly. And just because the problem is basic, doesn't mean a tradie will charge a small amount. Heck, a tradie would charge a $150 call out fee for this comment :D
@Charity: Yeh and you get charged at least $150 for the pleasure of being lied to as well . But its our fault apparently
Real estate - buying or renting.
Selling is a rip off too
If there’s a big crash people are going to find that they’ve massively overcapitalised, and over borrowed on property that they won’t be able to recoup. Unfortunately though the government hasn’t guaranteed our loans so people will just wind up in devastating amounts of debt.
Still, seems like a hard crash is unlikely, with is fortunate.
Depends on your perspective. Demand vs supply, could get an 'affordable' property in rural Australia. But if you want to live in one of the major cities (rated some of the most liveable cities in the world), then you've got to pay considerably more as should be the case.
Why should it be the case?
Supply and demand
Living a large developed world city is not necessarily a right, but a privilege to many.
Just ask the refugees in the whatever islands. It's not hard to see you're a self entitled person who thinks Centrelink owe you money.
Rated livable if you didn't have a crushing mortgage.
That $12-15 bowl of green leaves and dressing in the foodcourts where officeworkers go.
That's the circle or ripping off effect. If only you knew the rental cost of those places, you'd understand why the food is so salty. T.T
I know what you mean…the leases would be so expensive, but the straight salads are still quite expensive compared to say, a bowl of noodles with meat or a souvlaki meal in the same food court. It's just that the salads are touted as being "healthy".
So I've heard. I haven't actually been close to one of those things.
Generally, if the neon sign has too much green in it, I know it's not my kind of food.
Anything that has the word 'baby' in it .
For example, a baby backpack $169.95 vs a similar looking backpack that does not have the word baby in it $79.99
yea like sugar baby
$$$
or anything with the word "Organic" on it
Must be an investment purchase.
I have that reaction to every day items that are now standard to most people:
Not that I'm complaining (much). Most of those prices hiked up 15 years ago, not idea what triggered it all - possibly Gen-Y entering the work force? And then shopping centres raising rents? Can you tell I don't know anything about the economy? :)
Not all bad as thankfully some things are much cheaper:
How about the Japanese toaster that is $270USD and only makes 1 slice of toast at a time: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/this-japa…
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