What things or activities should be cheaper in price?
rfonzo
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I reckon the cost of cinema tickets should be lower. it is about £20-25 for two people to go and see a film.
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£16! it cost me to take my two children in the summer holidays.
That is an excellent point! The price of doing things that are considered healthy and active' are very expensive. It is like the price of quality fruit. Banana's are still quite cheap but others like certain types of apples, not to mention the exotic, are very expensive.
Also, other routine necessary animal treatment like worming. Should be cheap as chips, so the animal doesn't suffer when their owners can't afford to pay.
Kids used to swim free at the pools where I live. Then it all changed when the Tories got in. :rolleyes:
You pay for quality
This, especially if it's 3D.
Rail tickets would be one thing.
First one I thought off! It costs £10 for a person my age (20) too go swimming for an hour in our "new" (It's been there for two years and replaced an old one) swimming center. What's funny is that it's literally a 5 minute walk from a bloody beach....
Also, the cinema £7.20 too see a movie? and and extra £7.00 for a small box of popcorn! Nope, rip off!
Vet fees are over-priced, dentist fees even more so. My mum was charged £700 to have treatment on a tooth, she opted to have it out instead.
Apparently it takes longer to qualify as a vet than a Doctor, so I can understand vets charging a significant amount for operations but not as much as they do for a 5 minute visit.
This. And cinema tickets as OP says. If it was £2.50, they'd be packed.
That's too cheap and hardly comparable to spending money on tiolet paper or £700 on one dental treatment.
Swimming lessons should be cheaper or even free to
Woah! Where's that at?
At my local climbing centre, which is a very good one at that, is £30 for your induction, then £3 every session after that
It's not as if we have a choice in the matter is it?
What about food and drink? We all need to eat and drink to live don't we?
Crickey, where do you go? I can get a family of 5 to see a film for that :eek:
Train tickets are the one for me - it should cost less to make a long journey by train than it does to drive, even factoring VED , servicing and insurance (I reckon that's about £5 a day for me) and petrol.
You can usually quite easily see a film for a fiver if you take advantages of things like unlimited cards, orange Wednesdays or early bird offers etc.
Even so, I still think £10 to see a film is in no way expensive compared to other things that will keep you entertained for 2-3 hours.
Train tickets and public transport in general is completely overpriced in this country compared to most places in Europe. It's embarrassing how bad it is compared to the Dutch, Swiss or German systems.
Petrol/diesel.
Car insurance.
6 years ago back when I was 18, when I finally got my first car the cheapest insurance was around the £1100 marker, for a 1.2 corsa, I wouldn't be able to afford to insure my car if I was a new young 18 year old driver today, not unless I raided the Parents bank, £2500-£3000 is about the norm for new young drivers today.
add to that is public liability insurance it costs hundreds just to open the door
so of a £8 cinema ticket £6 could be rent rates insurance the staff cost etc etc
its a bit like when people bleat about car insurance for 17 years old being £2000
eg "oh the car was only £500 why is it £2000"
well its not the cost of the car numpty its who you hit it could be a £250000 ferarri or
they could be crippled and need life care of millions
and accident rates is a bathtub curve
17-20 are probably 10 times more likely to crash
so our cop en say shun culture costs