Nothing costs what it costs.
If, for example, one would like to purchase a mobile phone it is not simply a case of finding out how much said phone costs, then buying it. No, the same phone can cost twice as much one place as another with no explanation as to why and that's not even getting started on the lease/hire purchase it is possible to add to a tarif.
Then you have sofas and other furniture which are always in a half-price sale with no indication of when they were ever full price.
Then supermarkets with BOGOF or 2 4 1 or whatever they decide to call shifting stock by halving prices. Or, worse, you get bulk "bargains" which are either more expensive than buying singularly or just the same but bundled in different quantities.
Why can't things just cost what they cost? Why must one spend hours working out how much things really cost, or whether it's worth working out whether it's possible something is cheaper somewhere else which mayntake longer to deliver?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 21:22, 1 reply)

I know what you mean
It's annoying, but that's what the free market is. Companies exist in order to make money - not to supply you with products and services. Therefore they will charge whatever price they think they can get away with.

If a product costs twice the price in Shop A as it does in Shop B - and Shop A remains in business, then that obviously means that there are enough people who are either too stupid, or who do not have enough time, to shop around for the best deal.

Ultimately the reason why prices vary so greatly in a free market is because not everyone shops around for the best price.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 11:25, closed)