Chris Poulos;1349071 Wrote:
the over priceing of some products. $2.24 for a can of pop, which cost
of 30 cents a can. A bottle of berringer white zin wine $30.00 which I
retail for $5.99 in my store. $3.00 for a 24oz bottle water which I
sell for $1.19. A 45minute massage for $150.00 and the girl spends 15
minutes trying to sell you something. Cruise lines do deserve a fair
profit but I think they overprice things to a point where people do not
spend. I no longer do any of the above examples. Drink water at
dinner. no more wine and do not buy bottle water. Been on 11 cruises
and saw very little wine drinking at dinner. Have not book a massage
in
the last 5 cruises. I think if they lowered prices they wood make more
money by selling more..

Chris:

My feelings exactly. I certainly can't justify $30 for 6 buck wine.
Thats worse than the markup we get at our local wineries (they roughly
double their store price). However, being mainly a beer drinker anyway,
at least beer markups are much more reasonable and closer to what one
might pay at an airport.

Cheers! -- Rik


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Rik Brown
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