Women pay more for everyday items. Gender Price Gap. GOTDAMN!!

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Parasondox

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A buzz word is about to be used. Be warned.

Sexism!!! There we go. Word used. Now, ladies, things are already tough in this world for your gender. You know, vaginas are scary. Companies on the high street do know how to make everyone spend money on things they don't need. Eg. Black Friday. It was full of shit. News link time.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/women-paying-more-than-men-for-everyday-product-thanks-to-unacceptable-gender-price-gap-a6820816.html

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jan/19/the-sexist-surcharge-how-women-get-ripped-off-on-the-high-street

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-19/high-street-stores-charging-women-twice-as-much-as-men-for-similar-products/

One example, period pain tablets, costing a heck of a lot of money despite the fact that it has the same ingredients as something costing 75p. Not just that, from razors to shows to anything pink to appeal to girls coat most than things targeted to boys.

What do you all think? Yeah, handbags are expensive. Make my wallet cry and depressed expensive.

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Ryotknife

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im going to take a stab and say the reason why women products are more expensive is probably the same reason why videogames are more expensive in Australia.

Because people will buy it for that much. It is well documented that women are higher spenders than men on average, which makes them the most enticing gender demographic for markets. Guys tend to be a bit more of a miser when it comes to common goods but will blow a lot of money on ONE product like a motorcycle, sport car, snowmobile, dirt bikes, jetski, boats and other needless excessive items.

Isnt there a common saying that goes something along the lines of "the product is worth exactly what the customer is willing to pay for it?"
 

Zhukov

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Ryotknife said:
Isnt there a common saying that goes something along the lines of "the product is worth exactly what the customer is willing to pay for it?"
Yep. Nailed it.

They can charge those prices because people, women in this case, are demonstrably willing to pay those prices.

That "tampon tax" thing is bullshit though. I mean, "non-essential luxury"? Fucking seriously? Do they count toilet paper and soap as non essential luxuries as well?
 

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Ryotknife said:
Because people will buy it for that much. It is well documented that women are higher spenders than men on average, which makes them the most enticing gender demographic for markets. Guys tend to be a bit more of a miser when it comes to common goods but will blow a lot of money on ONE product like a motorcycle, sport car, snowmobile, dirt bikes, jetski, boats and other needless excessive items.
Pretty much this. Men are more likely to cheap out and buy things like disposable 2 dollar 12-packs of razors or 4 dollar Hanes shirts, and that drives our prices down. Women tend to be willing to buy the good stuff, where men simply don't care.
 

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AccursedTheory said:
Ryotknife said:
Because people will buy it for that much. It is well documented that women are higher spenders than men on average, which makes them the most enticing gender demographic for markets. Guys tend to be a bit more of a miser when it comes to common goods but will blow a lot of money on ONE product like a motorcycle, sport car, snowmobile, dirt bikes, jetski, boats and other needless excessive items.
Pretty much this. Men are more likely to cheap out and buy things like disposable 2 dollar 12-packs of razors or 4 dollar Hanes shirts, and that drives our prices down. Women tend to be willing to buy the good stuff, where men simply don't care.
I would say the expensive stuff. Not necessarily the "good" stuff. But yeah first response nailed it here.
Zhukov said:
That "tampon tax" thing is bullshit though. I mean, "non-essential luxury"? Fucking seriously? Do they count toilet paper and soap as non essential luxuries as well?
I mean that is a good question. I know you where being rhetorical, but if toilet paper and soap do count then adding tapons is fair enough if you ask me. If not ok I guess that should be changed.
 

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The Tampon Tax thing is complete nonsense and looking at the people defending it, it's almost exclusively spoiled men who think that the male equivalent of tampons is cologne. W...what!?!?

As for price discrepancies in other male/female products, it's not as simple as "the evil corporations are charging women more money". I've used male razors and I've used female razors, they're not the same (female razors are designed to shave a much larger surface area). As for hygiene products like soaps, shampoos and conditioners, men are more likely to buy very basic items.
 

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There are definitely areas where this is aggressively annoying. Fashion being one of them. Whatever genius decided "layering" was in- having to wear three times as many items of clothing to go outside without being cited for indecency- ought to be flogged. No one I know likes this style- it seems to have been introduced just to sell three times as many pieces.

Likewise, jeans. Women's jeans seem to be flimsier than men's, cost more, yet don't use appreciably more fabric.

Conversely, though, I recently had a bit of a disagreement with someone over women being charged more for, say, cleaning a shirt at a dry cleaners. Unfortunately, that isn't sexism- men's shirts are all cast from essentially the same mold; women's have a lot more variety in form, use more delicate fabrics, and are more likely to have various kinds of trim and decoration- all of which mean they can't be run through the same kind of press as men's shirt. And they cost more to replace if anything goes wrong.
 

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Zhukov said:
That "tampon tax" thing is bullshit though. I mean, "non-essential luxury"? Fucking seriously? Do they count toilet paper and soap as non essential luxuries as well?
Eddie the head said:
I mean that is a good question. I know you where being rhetorical, but if toilet paper and soap do count then adding tapons is fair enough if you ask me. If not ok I guess that should be changed.
Yes, yes they do.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/26/the-tampon-tax-debate-is-a-furphy-there-are-better-ways-to-help-women
"Toilet paper attracts GST, and women use more toilet paper than men; shouldn?t toilet paper be exempt from GST? What about nappies, an essential item that?s far more expensive than tampons, the costs of which are borne exclusively by families with young children?"

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/fawlty/basil_fawlty/20/toilet-paper-a-luxury-the-vat-man-thinks-so/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2013/12/05/flushing-out-the-toilet-paper-tax-exemption/#2715e4857a0b43e1fa5a3be0
 

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Parasondox said:
One example, period pain tablets, costing a heck of a lot of money despite the fact that it has the same ingredients as something costing 75p. Not just that, from razors to shows to anything pink to appeal to girls coat most than things targeted to boys.
I actually got into a debate about this the other day (moreso about branded versus generic) but if you are too dumb to read the list of active ingredients then you deserve to pay more. The funny thing is though that once you factor in the placebo effect you might get more value out of a fancy period tablet or high class pain killer even if it has exactly the same ingredients.
 

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Parasondox said:
One example, period pain tablets, costing a heck of a lot of money despite the fact that it has the same ingredients as something costing 75p
This is just a marketing thing. There is literally no difference between the same medications marketed for period pain, migraines, back pain whatever. There is no benefit to buying any but the cheapest brand tablet. You can pay 14 dollars for 24 tablets in fancy jelcaps from a big brand or like 50cents for 100 of the cheapest.
 

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lechat said:
Parasondox said:
One example, period pain tablets, costing a heck of a lot of money despite the fact that it has the same ingredients as something costing 75p. Not just that, from razors to shows to anything pink to appeal to girls coat most than things targeted to boys.
I actually got into a debate about this the other day (moreso about branded versus generic) but if you are too dumb to read the list of active ingredients then you deserve to pay more. The funny thing is though that once you factor in the placebo effect you might get more value out of a fancy period tablet or high class pain killer even if it has exactly the same ingredients.
The Placebo effect does come into it too. They look at the shiny well presented packaging, then the price and think, "must work faster and more effective because the pain I am going through now is killing me", and then goes for that. Adding to the value for money thought process.
 

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Parasondox said:
What do you all think? Yeah, handbags are expensive. Make my wallet cry and depressed expensive.
I've been around for a few decades and I still haven't understood why anyone would burden herself with such a big cumbersome shit like a handbag. Just use your pockets, trousers and jackets have them for a reason.
 

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Parasondox said:
lechat said:
Parasondox said:
One example, period pain tablets, costing a heck of a lot of money despite the fact that it has the same ingredients as something costing 75p. Not just that, from razors to shows to anything pink to appeal to girls coat most than things targeted to boys.
I actually got into a debate about this the other day (moreso about branded versus generic) but if you are too dumb to read the list of active ingredients then you deserve to pay more. The funny thing is though that once you factor in the placebo effect you might get more value out of a fancy period tablet or high class pain killer even if it has exactly the same ingredients.
The Placebo effect does come into it too. They look at the shiny well presented packaging, then the price and think, "must work faster and more effective because the pain I am going through now is killing me", and then goes for that. Adding to the value for money thought process.
Yup. Ironically a cosmetics company actually tanked because of this. They put out their brand which was of equivalent quality as top priced stuff but priced a lot lower because they didn't like the price gouging. No one bought it because the perception was because it was so cheap was because it was poor quality.
 

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they've lasted more than 18 months to far, though I am disgustingly beardy).
You can just take it off you know, there are strings at the sides, in case you've forgotten.
 

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LordLundar said:
Yup. Ironically a cosmetics company actually tanked because of this. They put out their brand which was of equivalent quality as top priced stuff but priced a lot lower because they didn't like the price gouging. No one bought it because the perception was because it was so cheap was because it was poor quality.
For being the species with the highest intellect we sure can be mind blowingly stupid sometimes.
 

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As has been mentioned many times already, women's products are more expensive because they often expect higher quality and/or additional functionality from these products. After all, if both products really are identical in all but packaging and marketing then why can't women just buy the men's products as well? Will the police arrest them for using a men's razor?
If there were any women's products that were cheaper than the equivalent men's product I'd be more than willing to switch to it; but it's not the same product.
LordLundar said:
Yup. Ironically a cosmetics company actually tanked because of this. They put out their brand which was of equivalent quality as top priced stuff but priced a lot lower because they didn't like the price gouging. No one bought it because the perception was because it was so cheap was because it was poor quality.
Also, this. It's no secret that men tend to care less about such products and are therefore less willing to pay extra, and while this seems to be changing to some extent, in general women seek out more expensive hygiene products.