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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Those are just cents.
I can buy Big Name Brand bottled water here, which costs like 2.95 a litre, because it's zchpeczial. If you buy bottled water from Store Brand, you'll get it for as low as 0.35.
Even though that's a price difference of almost 10x, it's about less than 3, and I can _see_ those prices when I'm standing in front of the shelves. In my case above, it's a difference up to 84, and I have to search stores throughout Europe. Even if I find the best price/shipping cost/shipping time option (which is often Germany for me), it seems that 'best price' can fluctuate up to 24, in a matter of days.
The product I bought in the UK had been at 65 for a few days, until my GF actually decided to buy it; it was 45 for the weekend when I got it for her. Now it's back to 65 again.
In the end, I (or more accurately, she) paid 38 and 45, in Germany and the UK, for products that would have cost 119 and 89 in the Netherlands. 83 vs. 198... (even when bought in the worst case, without the temporary discounts that happened at exactly the right time, the price difference would still have been 59+65= 124 vs. 198.)
I think such price differences for EXACTLY THE SAME PRODUCT are idiotic. I positively feel ripped off with my 82 "deal" last year, even though I saved 37 over the normal price at that time.
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Do me a favor please. Put every cent you get in a jar. Save it for one year. I do think you would be surprised.
That turkey alone adds up to $14. Not to mention the time and expense to go buy groceries.
I just did some quick math. Those cents added up to dollars awfully quick.
Oh wait I am sorry. I forgot you don't do pounds. Change my previous posts from pounds to 2.2 kilograms.
So yes, that 11 cents savings on butter may not seem like much to you but if I buy 10 lbs, that is $1.10 saved. On the sweet potatoes 10 lbs would be 50 cents saved.
It isn't that much per each but it adds up quickly.
As to the true price of something: what is the market willing to pay?
Example: I can get Mexican vegetables super cheap, issybird can get real maple syrup cheap. (We live in the same country.)
Prices vary.
There is an online store called wish.Com, they may have 4 prices for the same item. Come to think of it Amazon is the same way.
I don't think there is a set price for anything (except maybe ISBN).