Personally, I buy protein powder even though I know the ingredients are actually too cheap to justify the price. But I’m too lazy, and the reward of a cold chocolate shake after working out makes me forget about the outrageous cost. It’s a little guilty pleasure I’ve come to terms with.
Camera equipment.
All the mirrorless makers price gouge the daylight out of their stuff.
An iPhone. I’ve tried Android 3 separate times, a Nexus 5, 6P, and Pixel 3A XL, and I keep crawling back to pay the Apple tax.
Although the accessibility features have replaced several assistive devices that each cost several times the price of the iPhone, so it’s a matter of perspective.
We get collagen powder but its not very expensive. I mean we splurge on things but im not sure if they are overpriced really. Like pastuer raised eggs. They are like twice as expensive but they are meaningfully better. Hopefully health wise but definately in taste. Same with natural low ingredient ice cream. Id just rather eat them less often than eat the crappier stuff. There is likely something but I can’t think of it. My wife buys a lot of keto type stuff and I feel thats overpriced but I don’t value them higher than normal products whereas she does.
If you live in the US. Food, water, housing, education, and community.
You forgot the incredibly expensive scam that is American “healthcare”.
yeah honestly from the first list and your big one its housing and healthcare and im not so sure about housing even given I see it as an issue everywhere. we are copetitive on the rest but our lack of socail safety nets is what sinks us. not market things.
Heating.
In all seriousness, imported snacks: hot sauces from Mexico, beers from central Europe and fruit from South America.
Many protein powders were found to contain high amounts of heavy metals. Some of the pricier ones (ON Gold Standard, for example) contain less contaminants. I think that makes it worth paying for.
What protein source is cheaper than protein powder? i pay 16€/kg for whey protein
I pay 42€ for 1kg. I don’t know what makes it so expencive or why your’s so cheap. Maybe because mine is vegan. I don’t know.
But Soy is quite cheap. 100g of Soy granular costs about 1,90€ and has 52g of proteins.
yes vegan will do it. i’ll look into soy granular as i’m not too happy with dairy myself.
Chick peas maybe?
my whey powder has 79g Protein / 100g at €16/kg
tinned chick peas have 6.4g / 100g at €3,36 / kgso about twice as expensive if my math is right. i guess dried and buying in bulk would seriously drop chick pea price, but also chick peas are not a complete protein and dried chick peas are quite a hassle.
I don’t know anyone that does their own protein powder and it ain’t even that expensive if you make the calc for each serving. Going for the trouble to search up all the ingridients one by one and mixing them is way too tidious and a useless time sink.
As for your question: It’s probably a flagship phone once in a while. Why do I think it’s overpriced? Because I use like at most 10% of what the phone has to offer and pay for the 90%. Why do I do it anyways? Because I buy a phone once all 5-6 years or so. So having the newest tech of 5 years ago isn’t that bad. Lower end phones don’t hold that long.
I don’t know anyone that does their own protein powder
I’m probably old and out of touch, but this used to be called “cooking”
It’s not really cooking tho more like mixing stuff. To make your own protein powder, you need to mix almond flour, flaxseed flour and other high protein flours (pea or coconut etc). Sounds super easy, but than you are still lower in protein (but have higher fiber) than mosts protein powders. To come close to the stuff you can buy, you have to add some other type of protein concentrate (whey / soy protein etc) and if you add costs of all items you get around the same price as the protein powder (almond flour alone is super expensive)… so you have to ask yourself these question: is it really that much more healthy than the protein powder you can get? Is it worth the time I spend perfecting the ratio? Is it really cheaper than getting an average protein powder?
Why does it have to be powdered? Why can’t it be real food?
Because the powder is in most cases a supplement to the food and not the food itself. Having a protein drink after workout does not exclude eating a well rounded (to your needs) meal. It is complementary to it. Yeah you could chug 10 egs or so after the workout, but that isn’t that fun.
Why don’t people just eat a decent diet? Protein powder is bullshit.
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In your defense, even the 10% becomes obsolete pretty fast with most apps failing to support “old” mobile OSs after a few years.
My last phone I got immediately after the preceding years model. I wanted the experience of staying up to date just once in my life.
But before that? I’ve only had 9 phones total, and the first 3 weren’t even smartphones. So in 23-24 years I’ve had 9.
So I average a little less than your 5 years, but I did hit 5 once between Pixel 2 and 7.
I immediately jumped to 8, and it’s already 3 now, but other than some battery degradation it runs like new still. That’s the main reason I left the 2 finally. Charges would last like 3 hours and newer versions of apps were struggling on the pokey hardware. The cracked screen didn’t even matter too much to me, but when both cameras died it was finally time. I still have it, occasionally pop out out to be a lil cat TV.
health insurance, is the most obvious i recently have to buy it with some subsidies. and alot of plans dont cover most things until you paid OOP and deductibles, pretty much a scam. unless you have a good job with employee insurance its really almost barebones.
Internet. I prefer the underdog, not giant corpo owned ISP… and by paying more, it’s only be ause those bs ‘sales’ the major ISPs put on to their plans that make you fight every 2 years or change provider to the other big corpo.
anytime I ask what the REAL price is, it’s shocking higher then what I’m paying…those promos can be cancelled at anytime, without prior notice becAuse terms and conditions those major ISPs use.
I refuse to play that game and would rather have constantly priced invoices from my ISP so I ‘pay more’… plus, the rare time that I call from issues, I talk to someone who actually understands networking and doesn’t have a script. my calls last maybe 20, vs the big corpo where it takes me 20-40 minutes to even get a human
I can get behind this. I use a smaller (though they’ve grown a bit since I got on board) ISP who makes a big deal about having on-shore customer support. I’m happy to pay a small premium for that.
I purchased 2 sticks of ram yesterday. Even used, like the ones I purchased, it’s overpriced.
Hang onto them; RAM is the new Bitcoin!
Would love to see RAM price drops like Bitcoin ;)
No shade at the other answers, but I feel this is the only answer to the actual question concerning “overpriced” items. Even OP’s example, they are getting something for their extra expense: convenience. The others are things that people are buying even though there are less expensive alternatives available, but I don’t think anyone would say they aren’t at least getting a perceived value for the extra cost.
On the other hand, we have historic RAM prices to get an idea of true value, and it is only speculation that is driving up the cost. The RAM hasn’t gotten any better, it’s not even new, it cost you more than it should, but you need it, so you have to suck it up and pay a premium while getting nothing extra in return.
Thx. Looks like We’re on the same lane :)
iPhone. I haven’t found another smart phone that I actually like.
Insulin. Or rather the insurance plan so I don’t have to pay a car down payment on insulin
Mostly convenient sources of protein such as Brust drinks, Leanfit powder, Simple Protein Bars, and Okios Pro Yogurt. Food is often cheaper, but also higher in calories, sugar, and salt.
coffee–gotta be gourmet, none of that $5 (or however much folgers etc. costs now) powdered shit in a can
Ya. It turns out I’m a coffe snob. Only local and freshly roasted beans for this guy.
Yup. Coffee beans have to be decent and from a roaster
Can’t resist an fun processed single origin, just pops the old tongue buds
