Under-priced items?

triggerthat · 6 Jun 2006 at 00:58

For a long period of time, a bus ride was 70p. Soon it went upto £1 and in the same year, £1.20p and now, £1.50p. :rolleyes:

PardonTheWait · 6 Jun 2006 at 00:58

SideWinder said:
I take it you haven't used many other buses...some are fantastic value. £2.80 for an all day on the Brighton & Hove buses. Or £.150 for a single, fixed price for however far you travel (Routes 13+ miles long).

Compass on the other hand, £2.40 single for a 5 mile journey, prices varying. Same for Stagecoach, shocking.

wtf? Seriously?

It costs me £2 for a single to work 4 miles away :/

A Metro thingy ticket is £2.70 here... that's with Arriva too

To be fair you can go quite a long old way with a metro thinger, even further with a rover (between southend and basildon) but gah, £2 to get to work, it sucks

Raymond Lin · 6 Jun 2006 at 00:59

SideWinder said:
I take it you haven't used many other buses...some are fantastic value. £2.80 for an all day on the Brighton & Hove buses. Or £.150 for a single, fixed price for however far you travel (Routes 13+ miles long).

Compass on the other hand, £2.40 single for a 5 mile journey, prices varying. Same for Stagecoach, shocking.

Erm....doesn't london do the same thing? thought it was £1.10 for any journey.

Anyway, its going through the roof, £1.50 ! it was only £1.20 3 years ago !

LeperousDust · 6 Jun 2006 at 00:59

[TW]Fox said:
Totally 100% not sarcastic.

It is pathetic that you can travel to the other side of Europe for less than £50, becuase aviation fuel carries negligable amounts of taxation, when it costs £1 a litre to fill the car up with petrol.

What we need is a car that runs on aviation fuel :cool:

Quantic · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:00

I think broadband prices are REALLY cheap too. £35.00 a month for unlimited 10mb service???? :eek:

Surely they're undercutting themselves!

PardonTheWait · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:00

LeperousDust said:
What we need is a car that runs on aviation fuel

My dad used to run his grasstrack bikes on a petrol/avgas mix

Conanius · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:00

stagecoach for chelt + glos is a total joke also.

Park and Ride schemes arent to bad though, 1.50 return...

in seriousness, I think the UK has the cheapest mobile phones (most other countries have to pay for the phones, wheras we get 99% of them free)

SideWinder · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:00

Mohinder said:
wtf? Seriously?

It costs me £2 for a single to work 4 miles away :/

A rover is £2.70 here... that's with Arriva too

Just avoid Compass, i remember i paid £6+ for a return to Horsham, 12 miles apparently.

LeperousDust · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:01

Mohinder said:
My dad used to run his grasstrack bikes on a petrol/avgas mix

Sounds like some kind of home made nitro mix :cool:

Stellios · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:01

[TW]Fox said:
Totally 100% not sarcastic.

I do agree with him here, if you tried to drive to whereever you were flying it would be a lot more probably. However, putting more tax on avaition fuel wouldnt mean they would relax the tax on petrol, so its not something i would ever support the government to do.

Clarkey · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:02

£3 a week for as many bus rides as I can handle here, value for money!

LeperousDust · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:03

Stellios said:
I do agree with him here, if you tried to drive to whereever you were flying it would be a lot more probably. However, putting more tax on avaition fuel wouldnt mean they would relax the tax on petrol, so its not something i would ever support the government to do.

I think what he's trying to say is make the taxation fair. They are both bad pollutants, but it's cheaper to pollute with an aircraft than a car?

PardonTheWait · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:03

Clarkey said:
£3 a week for as many bus rides as I can handle here, value for money!

You ****ing what?! £13 down here! ooo, I'm getting angry now.

Raymond Lin · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:03

Conanius said:
stagecoach for chelt + glos is a total joke also.

Park and Ride schemes arent to bad though, 1.50 return...

in seriousness, I think the UK has the cheapest mobile phones (most other countries have to pay for the phones, wheras we get 99% of them free)

free ? lol they make their money from your calls !

When i was in HK, local landlines has a fix charge like water rates. And you can talk as long as you like, and the bill is exactly the same.

Stellios · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:06

SideWinder said:
*snip*

I use public transport to get everywhere and will happily say it overpriced. The buses are getting older and older, louder and louder and more and more uncomfortable, and at the same time they are getting less reliable time wise and more expensive. 2 out of the last 5 times ive got onto the bus with a quid and been blankly looked at the driver who says ive got no change, so thats a quid to go 5 minutes down the road to college.

The second i can afford a car i will have one, even if its more expensive than public transport, its better than travelling with chavs at the back plaing crazy frog and swearing their nuts off, and paying extornate prices for the pleasure of it.

Also, in my areas i believe there is another price increase soon, i knwo for a fact their will be on the Metro, so i dont see why bus companies wont do the same.

LeperousDust said:
I think what he's trying to say is make the taxation fair. They are both bad pollutants, but it's cheaper to pollute with an aircraft than a car?

True, i can see why peopel would say that, but if they put tax on the fuel then prices will go up obviously, and thats more money the public have to spend. Theirs no point in backing upping tax on items in which the public sectors saves IMO. Depends who you use too, i went over to Italy last year and the flights were expensive, its just smaller companies making really cheap flights to popular places, and upping avaition tax will raise the cost of every holiday.

The Pat · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:08

For me the bus is £2.30 for the journey I need to make to work. Usually get a lift back. However for just £3 I could ride the bus all day with a dayrider. :mad:

converse_uprise · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:23

Rich_L said:
Penny sweets were still a penny 10 years ago! And Space Raiders were 10p and still are!

Either we were getting royally ripped off 10 years ago, or they are under-priced right now

Oh, and the trains, if you book in advance, with a young persons railcard...London -> Bournemouth in 1hr 45m for £17 return...I like that!

They're now 20p.

PardonTheWait · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:25

converse_uprise said:
They're now 20p.

Not here they're not :confused:

Cybermyk · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:31

triggerthat said:
There are many things that exist that can be deemed over-priced, but what do you think is under-priced in the UK?

Discuss.

The workers

jhmaeng · 6 Jun 2006 at 01:51

Re: raising the tax on aviation fuel,

What's stopping the airlines from refuelling at airports in other countries (even for airlines like BA, who could refuel at the foreign destination as much as possible before turning back to the UK so that even if they have to refuel back in the UK, the amount will be as little as possible)? During the Hemel Hempstead fire, many airlines couldn't obtain enough fuel at Heathrow so they carried as much fuel as they could on their way here, and if it was a longhaul flight back to their origin, they stopped in another European airport to refuel before continuing onto their destination. A significant hike in UK aviation fuel tax will only bring about much of similar.

If they chose to raise the aviation fuel tax significantly, the UK government will probably lose money overall because the decline in tax revenue from lower sales will most likely outweigh the increase in tax revenue from raising the tax. Remember, airlines can fly their planes to fill up overseas with much more ease than cars can go to a different country.