Very Expensive Swiss Kit bags

[Space Kadet]

Hello everyone,

I work in London and the other day I was sitting on the tube train on my way to work when I saw a man with a bag made of that material they use to make caving bags out of - great I though I could do with a new bag - I made a note of the name of the maker and soon found the location of the shop in London that sold them.

According to the website these bags were made from the recycled material from the sides of lorries and trucks- even better they are bound to be quite cheap then!

Now working in London I am used to expensive prices, the pub next to work sells ale for seven ponds a pint!! but how could a bag made from the worn out sides of lorries be expensive.

I was very wrong, a carrier bag made from what looked like old tackle sack cost ?68,00 and a courier bag cost ?398,00... I just hope Warmbac and the like don't find out and put there prices up.

Anyway the bags are made by a Swiss company called Freitag.  There website shows prices in Swiss Franks but Britain being a rip off the shop just turned Franks into pounds with no conversion.

This is not really caving related but though you all my be interested in what an old tackle sack is really worth.  www.freitag.ch 

 

[Laurie]

Where can we buy some old lorry sides and an industrial sewing machine?  :

 

[Duncan Price]

Warmbac will make you a very nice shopping bag for ?25.  I had Kermit make me a bag to take my rebreather underground, it fitted nicely in a Lidl shopping bag and this was used as a template (with added cover flap etc.).  His staff saw it and asked for plain shopping bags out of tacklesack material and I bought one.  Not so much as a "bag for life" but a "bag for ever" and of course v. cool to take to the supermarket.

 

[paul]

Never mind the bag, what about " the pub next to work sells ale for seven pounds a pint!! " 

 

[Pitlamp]

Never mind the bag, what about " the pub next to work sells ale for seven pounds a pint!! " 

'Ow much?! They'll not be selling me any!

 

[matthewjc]

I work for a haulage firm who run a couple of hundred curtainsided trailers, ill have to get a sideline going...!

 

[underground]

London is ace though, let's not forget! I work for a firm based there, and I bloody love it! ?7.50 a pint is not unusual even in Sheffield, if you're talking craft beer and not mass produced piss

 

[dunc]

I can get a decent pint of ale for about ?3, London and other such places can keep their overpriced pints!

 

[Pitlamp]

What?! "London is ace"?

I'm sorry . . . ?

 

[Blakethwaite]

Hmm, my local has Copper Dragon, Black Sheep, Theakston's & Camerons ales as its permanent beers at just shy of three quid a go.

That or seven quid for a pint of headless cockney ditchwater... tough choice...

 

[Aubrey]

Roger has just put beer up to ?3 per pint, so the London beer price is 2.5 times that at the center of the universe.
A bag at ?68 is similarly marked up from the Warmbac price.
Do you get paid 2.5 times Somerset wages?

 

[Joe90]

That's a rediculas price tag for a pint. I can get a perfectly good or better local ale down in Devon for 3.20 sorry London, I do like you but not that much.
Now I think of it I could get westons stowford press in muscat, Oman for less than a pint in London.

 

[Space Kadet]

Never mind the beer what about paying all that cash for a bloody bag!

 

[AR]

London is ace though, let's not forget! I work for a firm based there, and I bloody love it! ?7.50 a pint is not unusual even in Sheffield, if you're talking craft beer and not mass produced piss

Excuse me?? Any Sheffield pub trying to sting you ?7.50 for a pint would become a large barbecue very quickly, and while a few of the overhyped and overpriced eateries round the city centre might try and charge gullible people that much, anyone with any sense (i.e. Yorkshire folk) will be supping in a proper craft beer pub like the Fat Cat and paying around three quid a pint.

 

[Chocolate fireguard]

London is ace though, let's not forget! I work for a firm based there, and I bloody love it! ?7.50 a pint is not unusual even in Sheffield, if you're talking craft beer and not mass produced piss

Excuse me?? Any Sheffield pub trying to sting you ?7.50 for a pint would become a large barbecue very quickly, and while a few of the overhyped and overpriced eateries round the city centre might try and charge gullible people that much, anyone with any sense (i.e. Yorkshire folk) will be supping in a proper craft beer pub like the Fat Cat and paying around three quid a pint.

I have only been a serious beer drinker for about 45 years so I am still learning. What`s a craft beer?

In Sheffield I can get 4 pints, a good eat-in curry with popadoms and a starter, the bus fare home, and still have change from ?17.
OK, the bus pass amd free popadoms help!

 

[Bob Smith]

Is craft beer like Kraft cheese?

 

[underground]

London is ace though, let's not forget! I work for a firm based there, and I bloody love it! ?7.50 a pint is not unusual even in Sheffield, if you're talking craft beer and not mass produced piss

Excuse me?? Any Sheffield pub trying to sting you ?7.50 for a pint would become a large barbecue very quickly, and while a few of the overhyped and overpriced eateries round the city centre might try and charge gullible people that much, anyone with any sense (i.e. Yorkshire folk) will be supping in a proper craft beer pub like the Fat Cat and paying around three quid a pint.

Adam.. I was on about the Sheff Tap, they know how to charge. I suppose it's one of those 'small demand, higher price' things, like Adam Smith's invisible hand is supposed to control. A craft beer being something other than your average pint. But believe me, folks will pay it, there's a few minted buggers up here... and a lot of people passing through what with it being a railway boozer. Even so most pints are upwards of 4 quid in All Bar One and it's always rammed. And that includes the mass produced piss. And personally, I find places like the Fat Cat (and spare me by not mentioning the Three Stags cunting Heads) opressive, miserable shitholes. I've lost count of the times I've heard 'the landlord at the 3 stags will only serve you if he likes you' or 'pulls  gun out if you ask for lager' what an arsehole. Give me a big bright milf filled chain boozer any day if that's the alternative.

You and me should probs meet up over a pint to discuss this, since I'm an ex BA colleague of yours... but the Washington's beer is always tainted by the vile air freshener they put in the pissers....

 

[underground]

London is ace though, let's not forget! I work for a firm based there, and I bloody love it! ?7.50 a pint is not unusual even in Sheffield, if you're talking craft beer and not mass produced piss

Excuse me?? Any Sheffield pub trying to sting you ?7.50 for a pint would become a large barbecue very quickly, and while a few of the overhyped and overpriced eateries round the city centre might try and charge gullible people that much, anyone with any sense (i.e. Yorkshire folk) will be supping in a proper craft beer pub like the Fat Cat and paying around three quid a pint.

I have only been a serious beer drinker for about 45 years so I am still learning. What`s a craft beer?

In Sheffield I can get 4 pints, a good eat-in curry with popadoms and a starter, the bus fare home, and still have change from ?17.
OK, the bus pass amd free popadoms help!

Really? Tell me your sources as I'd love to do the same. I must admit, the Brown Bear on Surrey Street is a bargain. Last time I asked for 2 pints of best the barmaid said '?2.48 love' and I said 'sorry love, I asked for 2 pints' - 'aye, it's ?1.24 a pint love'....
To all - I wasn't suggesting that 'a pint' in Sheff costs ?7.50, just that it *is* possible to pay it for a beer from a brewery that makes beers that are small production, different to the norm, and take a bit of effort - that's where the 'craft' comes in. Some are worth it, some are a ripoff, IMO

 

[underground]

What?! "London is ace"?

I'm sorry . . . ?

John, I honestly think it is, so vibrant, loads going on, I'm always so excited to go there for work or leisure. Did you not contribute to any builds there? That said it's different working there, depends what you're up to I guess, luckily my role allows me to enjoy it, but I'm always grateful that I can enjoy hotels and restaurants for a couple of days, pretend to live the London life, and come back up North for reality. My wife is from London and my father in law still lives in the East End, and it's a bit grim really...

 

[underground]

Roger has just put beer up to ?3 per pint, so the London beer price is 2.5 times that at the center of the universe.
A bag at ?68 is similarly marked up from the Warmbac price.
Do you get paid 2.5 times Somerset wages?

How much are Somerset wages?