Or refuse to buy
Video games. Retro video games. All of it.
Sure, we have Steam sales and those are still cheap. But physical games? Gone bonkers since covid.
This is the first time in the history of the world that current Gen consoles have gone UP in price. Games hardly go down in price anymore.
Retro games used to be cheap. Now everyone and their mother knows they’re not just old children’s toys, and think everything is a collectible. And these days, they might not even be wrong! Not to mention thrift stores and sometimes even garage salers are trying to charge eBay prices for everything they have.
I’m just holding onto digital games and Steam sales and such…and, well, piracy of course. (But storage is expensive too…)
Man, everything is a collectable now. I swear I can big some random cheap old tech and in a few years it will be double the price
I was going to buy an old game that was not very good for nostalgia purposes as a gift. Since COVID it has tripled in price.
It was already not good, and at $150 I’d rather gift an Everdrive with an 8gb card full of the rom than spend that much on a shelf piece.
Was it “notoriously bad” or just lacklustre? That makes a difference! Lol
Edutainment mixed with mid-platforming… Most likely expensive because it didn’t have a wide release. Not “bad” but also not a hidden gem or “actually good despite” anything.
Drinks in a restaurant. I always order water. One day I was in the mood for tea until I looked down at the $4.99 price. Strangely, soft drinks we’re $3.99. I guess many of you aren’t surprised, but like I said, I never really order drinks with a meal so it had been a while since I had seen the price.
Depends where it is. Wetherspoons still does £1.99 a pint. I also found a place recently that I can abuse their system to get double my drinks order but even with that little cheat its still like £3.50/pint so I don’t go there much. Its mostly a human engineering attack combined with a little bit of knowledge of POS systems.
I honestly just finds it absurd that soda is usually as expensive as water. Or water is a few cents cheaper. I mean i drink water anyway, but still.
Wait… you have to pay for water at a pub or restaurant or cafe? Where are you from?
He’s probably referring to bottled water.
Beef. Beef used to be in the affordable to readily affordable range. Now for a pound of ground beef it’s about half as much for a bag of chicken breasts.
Meat prices about to force me to be a vegetarian (not a bad thing).
I’ve considered it but live in a food dessert so options are pretty limited. Unless I want to make an hour round trip for good groceries.
Your local food stores don’t have beans? Whatchu working with there that they have a meat only diet?
It has beans, but a good diet is more than beans. They rarely have fresh produce outside of onions, peppers, and potatoes. Leafy greens and such usually are half way wilted already. It’s nice being entirely land locked.
Beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans!
I will be a walking biohazard if I ate that many beans. :)
Just eating a sandwich outside, now you can only find SuperFancyFrench Sandwich with gold plated armor, made by Mongolian monks.
I’m like wtf, just give me 2 pieces of bread and whatever cheap inside, 4$ and we are good.
Find a good, local deli and you can get sandwiches like that.
Though I’m sure this varies depending where you live and how many delis are around you.
When I lived in PA i would grab a really good $5 hoagie from Wawa and a free coffee after school, now its like $8+ and coffees are only free if you buy enough…
Beer! I can still afford it, I just won’t so I quit.
This was me and soda. The off-brand soda I’d started buying was unavailable for three weeks last summer, and Coke, RC Cola, and Pepsi were all price-fixed at the same price… so I said fuck those guys and just weaned myself off it with what I had left.
Some prices just piss a consumer off.
Anything that comes in pods.
Waste of money and terrrible for the environment.
i assume you mean things like coffe pods, those are terrible. and the machine even generic ones are annoying to maintain.
I agree, nuke the whales!
Gotta nuke something
Whiskey and beer. Though I’ve replaced them with specialty coffee which is getting more and more expensive so I’m not sure that was the wisest financial decision…
My partner says that trying specialty beans have ruined normal coffee.
Removed by mod
As a Dutchie, 20$ for pizza already sounds very expensive to me, 48$ is a crime xD over here it costs about 10-15€ which is almost the same in $
US Pizza is 3 times as thick as a normal pizza and 3000 calories.
it is a pizza, you get what you expect from it.
Though in the Netherlands you are probably talking about a personal pizza, whereas if they are in the US, they are probably talking about a larger pizza that would feed at least two people.
Large pizza feeds my family of 4 in the US. 2 slices each is sufficient to make you feel full.
Used to be $8 when I was a kid. Now it’s around $20 for pickup for a plain pie.
Removed by mod
I was in NY and my friend is a real pizza nut and wanted me to try this super trendy pizza, Ceres. We went mid afternoon and avoided the 4 hour line. A 20" pie was $68 before tax.
Glad in back home where I can cry into my $5 Digorno when I need a night off.
Removed by mod
Red Baron is where it’s at.
Removed by mod
Bro it’s yummy af what are you talking about?
Any soft drink that’s not Arizona iced tea.
I haven’t checked lately, is the price still on the can, though?
Yes it is. Not as cheap as before (~$1.49 last I checked), but it’s still a good buy if one decides to eat out. Fast food’s profit margins on drinks are notorious, after all.
Computer memory (RAM)
I bought 64 gigabytes of ram in 2019 on a laptop.
Did you swap it for a house this year or are you waiting for whole block of flats?
haha no joke. I was thinking of selling the sticks for a whole graphics card.
I wish I could just payoff my house.
Storage too
I bought a laptop when I migrated. EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO.
Carne asada. Tacos. Fucking food trucks in Portland want $15 for 3 street tacos. GTFO.
Granola. It’s $5/lb at WinCo!
NA beer. People weren’t buying reg beer so they just figured hey we’ll wreck this market by pricing people out of it too! So I get no alcohol and it’s the same price as regular beer? Piss off.
Also in Portland. Food trucks are no longer the cheap street food thing. Haven’t been for years. Now they’re trendy and commercialized like everything else. I hate it
Morons keep lining up no matter what they charge. The whole point of trucks is you don’t have to pay the restaurant lease, servers or dishwashers.
Yeah, that means they can charge restaurant prices and pocket the difference!
Give Old Milwaukee NA a try. I can go the fancy beer route, like Athletica, but on a hot day, doing yardwork, a cold OM is quite nice.
Current local price is about 80 cents/can.Yeah I’m all for cheap beer, I stopped drinking several years ago so unfortunately pounder NA and other more economical options aren’t yet available. I never was loyal to one brand, pretty equal opportunity drinker for whatever was reasonable. Oh no advertisers, someone made it through your brand loyalty gauntlet!
The NA beer bothers me. They don’t have to pay all the various taxes and fees but it costs the same? Or more? There’s a brewery near me that is relatively large and ships internationally and their NA costs nearly 2x what another local much smaller place charges for real beer. That NA doesn’t even taste good in the world of NA beer let alone at their cost.
bulk granola, made in person seems quite expensive, rather than buying the pre-packaged from brand names.
I didn’t say I make it “in person”, that is their price per pound of bulk granola which, usually, should be the cheapest premade version of something.
Bitcoin.
RAM! 😭
Also see: SSDs, HDDs, GPUs and CPUs
😢
Especially Crucial RAM, since Micron stopped selling to consumers in favour of datacentres.
RAM used to be so cheap they basically gave it away.
Pets ( vet was never cheap but was affordable) I’ve spent over 7k this year in vet bills for 2 cats and one dog.
