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Chroming... Why so expensive??

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lcfc:
WTF is it with chrome platers wanting to charge what they do when i just saw a brand new bmx in a sports shop for £70, the make is not important what is though is that it had the dogs chrome job on it.
I mean ffs. i got a chrome plated broom handle with a head on it as well for a £1!! at wilko's, there has to be at least 1/3 of a frames worth of chrome on it so why dont it cost £3 for a frame??
I know you all must be thinking :Aresehole: but you really think about it. Most items in your bathroom/kitchen and many other items in and around our homes are chrome plated and they do not cost fortunes. I even got a free upgrade from orange the other week and got the new motorola razor (shite) btw, and its in fooking black chrome!! :rant:

kirk:
Easy, UK Worker in a plating business needs £6 7 8 9 10+ per hour just to live in this country, raw materials are expensive here due to tax, business rates, I could go on.....

All the goods in wilco are made in China etc by a little bloke who gets paid a bag of beans a day, who lives in a shed and the company just pumps out lots of cr ap and has no hse policy or pays stupid taxes to a greedy government who is skint, because they are paying to keep the immigrants in houses, and teenage mums in flats. so just remember next time your paying the chromer £45 to chrome a bolt your keeping scum bags comfy.

lcfc:

  It still dont add up though does it? even at £10p/h materials/ transport............ me thinks we are all getting fooked with a big stick!!

Moose:
How much do you think special waste costs these days?

munners:
Its because the manufacturer gets huge discount for volumes. They just dont chrome 1 at a time! :LolLolLolLol:

Whenever i go into my chromers they always have thousand and thousands of a particular chrome light fitting that they chrome for a manufacturer who probably pays no where near what they would charge us to do just one.

We are the little fiddly jobs that they can charge what they like for really.

Chromers cannot compete with China for chroming though!

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