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28785935 No.28785935 [Reply] [Original]

Why does a single condom which is produced on a massive scale cost 1$ as if its fucking handmade in Switzerland. Shouldnt the free market make them cost like 2 cents since a condom is essentially 0.5 grams of rubber?

>> No.28786053

Read a real book gay Marxist

>> No.28786059

>>28785935
Condoms are just for a pump and dump, don't invest in them.

>> No.28786100

>>28785935
1. Trust of brand (e.g. Durex) - it's something a lot of people aren't willing to take a risk on some unknown generic brand
2. Small quantity being bought at one time - if you go on eBay you can buy 500 condoms for pennies each

>> No.28786131

>>28785935
Because people will pay that much. Ask price is high.

>> No.28786167

>>28785935
Things cost what the market will bear, and only fools buy retail.

>> No.28786183

>>28785935
With that logic just make your own condoms out of balloons.

>> No.28786192

I think it might be connected to how people treat sex, most people want to have sex with some good condoms even though it's basically the same as any other condom, durex controls a lot of the market with it's name

>> No.28786247

>>28786053
such as

>> No.28786320

>>28786247
basic economics by thomas sowell

>> No.28786343

>>28785935
Retail dumbass

U could literally buy straight from a factory for pennies but only in bulk, try alibaba

If u do not understand what a merchant is or what a store does why are you here

>> No.28786387

>>28786131
can this be classified as irrational consumer behaviour

>> No.28786404

>>28785935
Its not just the rubber included in the price you fucking retard
>marketing
>testing
>innovations (you want a feeling as natural as possible for example)
>package
>shipping
>profit for retail
Also, there are many noname condoms for a few cents each on the market, they are usually small and feel like shit tho

>> No.28786473

>>28786343
>X brand chink condoms

>> No.28786568

>>28786100
>>28786131
This. Where economics gets me scratching my head is the absurdity of how low some imported cheap wines can cost and presumably still make a profit:
>Grapes vines must be maintained
>Grapes must be harvested, processed, fermented, aged
>Colored glass bottle must be made
>Label must be made
>Cork, synthetic or otherwise, must be made. Proper cork must be harvested and processed
>Bottles must be filled, labeled, corked
>Relatively fragile/heavy bottles are then shipped where shipping company and importing company both take cuts
>Import taxes, regulation, and additional labeling often required
>Importer must then sell to store/restaurant, which then take another cut
>More taxes
>~6 dollars a bottle of foreign swill to end user
Economies of scale are fucking crazy

>> No.28786722
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28786722

>mfw autist sits alone with 10,000 condoms because another autist told him he could save money buying in bulk

>> No.28786768

>>28786568
look at some how it's made clips, when you see all those components whoosh past on a conveyor belt by the thousands you see why it works

>> No.28786788

>>28786059
QEQ

>> No.28786864

>>28786722
>just resell them to your friends bro

>> No.28786874

>>28785935
just pick them up for free at the doctor, normal brands are available there too

>> No.28786889

>>28786568
It's all the more amazing when you realize that half of the end price is tax for Shaquila. Dem economies of scale really lil doin sum.

>> No.28786929

>>28785935
Some people are allergic to rubber. There's marketing and brand trust. Westerners don't consider $1 expensive, so that's what known brands charge

>> No.28786968

>>28785935
Don't they blast every condom with sonic shit or something? So they can test each one to make sure it's robust? I'm sure I saw a clip somewhere which showed them testing each individual condom.

>> No.28787050

>>28785935
Consumers don't want stuff like condoms to seem too "cheap" as if the quality is tied to the price beyond basic materials and construction. Consumers, especially roastie whores, will pay premium for luxury. A classic scam.

>> No.28787134

>>28786929
>1$
I have to work 20min in my socialist country to earn that much

>> No.28787404

>>28787050
This. In the Netherlands a company tried to undercut Durex like ten fold in price and failed. Not because the product was bad but because it was to cheap. They stopped production.

>> No.28787530

>>28787404
would it be fair to say Durex has a monopoly from an economics standpoint

>> No.28787656

>>28787050
If you think condoms are expensive try 18 years of child support.

>> No.28787690

>>28786100
https://amp.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3102945/vietnam-busts-factory-washed-and-resold-used-condoms

>> No.28787707

>>28786387
No it's simply no one cares to barter over the nominal fee of a trusted condom brand because their time is more valued in other pursuits.

Btw off the shelf condoms are for niggers and fags. Big white dicks get wrapped in custom sized MyOnes.

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>>28785935
You actually use condoms? Let me guess, you're also circumcised..

>> No.28787959

>>28787856
When you're clapping tinder hoes you don't want an sti scare like i had.

>> No.28787979

>>28786059
JEJ

>> No.28788086

>>28787959
>sti scare
greentext

>> No.28788148

>>28786100
Condoms supposedly expire. So if you buy 500 in bulk you might get a bad one towards the end. Is it worth saving a couple bucks for a pregnancy scare? Maybe, stairs are free after all.

>> No.28788273
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>>28788148
>how can you get pregnant if you only do it in the butt

>> No.28788308

>>28785935
You can get them free at most family planning clinics.

>> No.28788331

>>28788148
Store properly, resell locally.

>> No.28788335

>>28787959
>sti
The jews did a number on you. Its a disease you're catching.

>> No.28788433

>>28788273
The point is not avoiding pregnancies, the pill, IUD and such are safer bets for that. The point is avoiding STDs.

>> No.28788445

>>28786059
(:

>> No.28788466

>>28786059
spbp

>> No.28788561

>>28787856
wtf is this pic

>> No.28788582

>>28786059
Yeah it just screams pajeet scam

>> No.28788629

Because when you're horny you don't ask the price, you just pay and go fuck with your irrational coomer brain working in overdrive.

>> No.28788637

>>28788433
the only STD to be worried of is HIV, and that can be prevented with PrEP anyway

>> No.28788739

>>28786059
eoy prediction?

>> No.28788809

>>28785935
They have to recoup the R&D to develop the rubber. It isn't just manufacturing costs.

>> No.28788999

>>28785935
its testing duh, quality testing always drives the prices high, thats why everything cheap is shit

>> No.28789142

>>28786059
classic FUD, been holding onto them for years

>> No.28789780

>>28788086
What is there to green text?
>Meet some hoe
>I forgot to bring the condom
>She seemed like she wasn't scanky but she was on her hoe phase and apparently fucked some low class scum bag without a condom either
>A week or two later she tells me she has chlamydia and i should get tested
>I do
>I don't have it
>I still need to wait for blood work to be sure but the experience taught me to always wear a condom because fuck that shit

Being told you have an sti is scary. You feel disgusting. I couldn't fap. Every time I thought about having sex with someone the idea that I had an infection and could spread it made me realize no pure anime would want my cock.

I'm still talking to the girl even though we both moved on. Sti buddies. It's weird but we had no chemistry but now we do.

>> No.28789816

>>28786568
You're forgetting the part where all of the material goods (glass, lables, corks, etc) are not individually priced. An acre yeids 2-10 tons of grapes, and 1 ton of grapes basically makes 300 bottles of wine, give or take. a very low yeilding vineyard (cheaper cost to maintain, maybe the owner doesn't have great equipment or whatever) produced 1440 bottles, and a good vineyard produces 7200. Lets say they're decent and make 4000 bottles at your 6 bucks, they've made 24,000. That 24 can cover the costs of other things. 24,000 for ONE ACRE. Typical vineyards are 49 acres each, however some are 120 acres in places like Australia. Lets say somebody owns an 80 Acre vineyard, their bottles of wine have made them $1,920,000.

>> No.28789924

>>28788335
Chlamydia is an infection retard.

>> No.28789945

>>28785935
You are aware you can go out and get condoms for free right? buying them is like donating to your favorite streamer.

>> No.28789951

>>28786568
>Assuming that they are made of real grapes...
Bought once one of those cheap wines and the next day I thought I'm shitting blood

>> No.28790093

Also if you ain't raw doggin, and pieing bitches between trades and lines of blow what are you doing with your life?

>> No.28790286
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>>28790093
This man truly lives.

>> No.28790431

>>28786059
I just buy and hodl forever

>> No.28790511

>>28785935
Best invention of the 21st century.

>> No.28790513

>>28790093
yeah this desu

condoms are the ultimate ngmi

>> No.28791490

>>28786568
It gets even more bizarre when you go to a Spanish supermarket (in Spain) and see bottles of wine from as low as a Euro. Over there 4 Euros for a bottle of wine is considered extravagant. Fucking how?

>> No.28792467

What do you care. It's not like you're ever going to need one pepe

>> No.28792654
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>>28786059

>> No.28792789

>>28786320
Ah, a man of culture.