What gets worse the more you pay for it?

[Ritadeeter]

What products do you think get worse the more money you spend on them?

For example, fancy fizzy drinks don't compare to coke or sprite etc.

I've paid a small fortune for shampoo and conditioner in the past....much prefer the lower range stuff!

Council tax

Crisps.

Chocolate

Yep Asda own cool tortillas crisps are so much nicer than Doritos.

Beans on toast

I do not want a sprig of parsley on my beans

Deodorant. Had a Chanel one once, what a waste of money.

My thought exactly!

Handbags. Those really posh label ones costing thousands always look weirdly cheap.

Days out with kids. Places like Legoland, Chessington and Thorpe Park just make me shudder.

Thames Water

Mascara

Totally agree with crisps.

Flooring unless it’s real wood

Agreed. The Birkin is the fugliest cheap-looking bag I’ve ever seen.

Scent. The more you spend, the more unpleasant the stuff is.

And as a pp’s said, shampoo. But I see that as paying through the nose for nothing, rather than the expensive products being worse. Which is true of the whole of the cosmetics and toiletries market.

I can never understand posters on S&B who say that some ‘serum’ or jargony ‘acid’ concoction has made them look younger. If these potions worked they’d be highly controlled medical products. It’s all bollocks.

Fugliest 🤣 haven’t heard that in some time.

champagne (maybe an unpopular opinion). My headache after increases as the cost does and I don’t like the taste. Much prefer a cava or Prosecco.

Hairspray. I usually get the mildly scented mid-range ones, but have occasionally got much more expensive ones on special, and found them no better and sometimes very over-perfumed.

Le

Lemon juicers. Like an idiot I bought one of those designer ones in the 90s that looked like a War of the Worlds Martian, with long legs. Useless. Any normal one is fine.

Have to agree over shampoo. I’ve mostly only ever used the cheap stuff avd hairdressers invariably comment on the “really good condition of my hair”.

The royal family

Ha! Ours goes up every year (as does everyone’s) and our rubbish collection is exactly that!

due to a shortage of drivers (how about not letting them all go off on holiday at once then?) we are getting collected every 8 days for recycling and 3 weeks and a day for rubbish. But they won’t warn us, so it goes out and sits there for days until they pick it up. Why can’t they tell us that it won’t be picked up until x day? The missed collection list is there to see!

<rant over>

Managers

Definitely.

Our council constantly pleads poverty as their excuse for shit services. No, you are run by and employ a bunch of incompetents.

Thank god I got out years ago.