10 popular items with surprisingly giant markups

3/19/2018

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Society Story: 10 popular items with surprisingly giant markups

We all agree to pay big amounts of money for comfort and entertainment. But the markups for some things we buy every day turn out to be really giant! The difference between the production cost and the selling price of these 10 things is truly surprising.

#1 iPhone X:

#2 Diamonds:

#3 College textbooks:

Author royalties, editing, and bookstores employees' wages make the textbooks so expensive.

#4 Designer jeans:

Do you believe designer clothing is worth it?

#5 Movie theater popcorn:

#6 Wedding dresses:

Brides and their families are always ready to pay for the emotions.

#7 A bottle of wine in a restaurant:

You have to pay more due to the restaurant's operational costs and taxes.

#8 Bottled water:

#9 A pint of beer at a bar:

Are you ready to overpay for beer to drink it in a cozy place?

#10 Prescription eyeglasses:

Was this information new for you? Which items would you add to the list? Do you know any ways to not overpay for the stuff we need every day?

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69 Comments

Thomas St James

$150 for jeans? I don't think so. At least not for me.

Pete Chambliss

on items that are OPTIONAL - simply boycott them and if the movement gets large enough, change will happen - popcorn - rediculous; eye glasses - shop around; wedding dresses - ok , pay the price but have it designeed so it can be easily modified into a cocktail/evening dress; Phone - keep yours another year and then by a xx.1 lower model, just one model out of date; its just called practical use of Your money instead of being sold on "you ain't cool if you dont have the latest" . Only the consumers are the fools

Doc Holloway

Wheelchairs, hearing aid, glasses, dental work anything you really need have outrageous markup.

Cheryl McMeekin

It's all highway robbery, it's ridiculous of how much we pay for certain things....

Doug Yattaw

Drugs and medications average six hundred % markup!

soldbyjanet

Eyeglasses and text books are the big surprises.

garrett scott

Production cost-does it include cost of the store, cost of the shipping, salary of the clerk, cost of the advertising? Plus a list of other things that each of you can probably add to the final cost.