I saw this comment that justified someone asking 59€ to install a screen protector on a phone and I thought it’ll be interesting to do a survey of experiences of people from inexpensive places that made them surprised after hearing quotes for services in Finland.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/s/e4Yv8eNstg

What are some of the surprising quotes you’ve received for services in Finland?

For me, it was knowing the normal price for a single body composition measurement at fitness24x7 is 24€, when the self-operated machine they use can be bought under 100€.

https://www.k-citymarket.fi/tuote/omron-bf-508-kehoanalyysivaaka-4015672103870

by unemployed_MLE

11 comments

  1. Holy shit, 59 € installing screen protector to a phone? Jaysis, lived her all my life and that shit sounds absurd!

  2. To be fair the omron device is on a whole different category with the inbody measuring devices that for example fitness247 uses. For example inbody 770 costs 17k€ new.

  3. I tried of justifying it. Couldn’t at all. There is no world where that markup makes sense, unless the margins are negative and there is nothing else bringing money in.

  4. Well, buy the machine for yourself and start a service.

    You’re not actually paying for the service, you’re paying for the time and money you save when you don’t have to do things for yourself.

    Most people won’t be buying a €100 (useless) gadget, they opt to pay €24 instead.

  5. Finland is an expensive country in more ways that one but I think it’s a good pay off for the infrastructure, education and quality of life here. Also pay is much better here than my home country so that’s appealing.

  6. 59euro seriously!! In my country people start a small screen protector business with that money

  7. I’m more sad that for these prices I usually receive a pretty bad service. It might be my luck though.

    From recent Finnish service fuck ups of this year:

    1. Screen protector of my Honor V2 was applied badly, resulting in a need of a new screen. When that was installed, the front screen was not glued properly, so needed to reattach it.

    2. Ventilation inspection in the whole yhtio went badly, in my apartment company screwed up recently painted wall, in all yhtio filters were installed incorrectly.

    3. In spring official dealer of Honda bikes forgot to screw the oil nut during official service. On my other bike the belt was tightened incorrectly, retightened it myself.

    4. During my car service Toyota failed to reset the service meter and messed up my seat memory module.

  8. Botox injections, whether for medical or aesthetic purposes. I suffer from TMJ which leads me to have really bad migraines, and botox is the only thing that has helped me. It’s about ~65€ in Korea and ~400€ in Finland even after kelakorvaus.

  9. I remember asking about getting a suit dry cleaned on my first trip to Finland in 88. Can’t recall exactly what they quoted me but it was definitely more than what  I paid for the suit… 😛 

  10. Being from Ukraine everything is pricy. Food, rent, medical services. But considering that you don’t hear russian drones and missiles exploding around you every night, it is kinda worth it.
    Anyway when I will need tooth implant I will go to Romania or somewhere.

  11. Acrylic nails cost 90-130€ for the first time and 65-80€ for the maintaining. Pretty much everywhere else it’s around 30-35€ for the 1st time or retouch. And finnish technicians are painfully slow too, it takes 1,5h??? It should be 45mins with a good filing.

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