Small things, great profits: Why we never know what is really expensive

The smaller, the more expensive - and nobody notices how they are paying extra. Why the greatest rates of profit wait for the smallest things..

For many people, a car is the thing in life that they suddenly spend the most money on. You have to pay 10,000, 20,000 or even 50,000 euros for individual mobility when you buy it. Anyone who is not just buying a property or indulging in an extended trip around the world will never again spend on a certain thing.

But is that really true? Is your own car really the most expensive thing a normal citizen buys? Of course not - at least if you calculate the price per kilo. The smartphone is at the top of the price list: the average mobile phone costs 3,136.48 euros per kilogram, much more than the average new car, which only comes to just over 19 euros per kilo.

Wrapping paper is really expensive - more than a car

This puts the car behind ordinary wrapping paper that costs just under 20 euros per kilogram. Surprisingly, socks, which cost around 100 euros per kilo, fashionable trainers that cost almost 500 euros per kilo, and ballpoint pens are also much more expensive: one kilogram comes to a proud price of 2,621.23 euros.

The mass makes it, and you don't notice it in everyday life. This is also the trade secret that gives the providers of mini-packs, for example with sugar, creamer, salt or pepper, higher profit margins than they do drug dealers. In the street trade with narcotics, they usually have to be satisfied with an average profit of less than 100 percent - a street vendor makes about 25 percent profit with cannabis, with cocaine it is around 50 to 70 percent at best.

Sugar brings in more than drugs

Given the risk of being caught, charged, and imprisoned, the effort the dealers put into is hardly justifiable with regard to other product groups. Because the profit rates when selling mini-packs of salt, sugar, coffee cream or pepper are much higher: a thousand four-gram sugar sachets cost around 13 euros, a kilo price of around 3.25 euros - the same amount of sugar in a kilo bag costs just 1 ,20 Euros. That makes an incredible 250 percent profit.

And that is still a little compared to the coffee creamer that restaurants offer. There are 240 pieces of 7.5 g each for just under 12 euros. A kilo price of 6.60 euros - 300 times more than a tetrapack with a liter of coffee cream costs. Salt bags are, however, even more expensive: 750 pieces are available for 7.22 euros, a kilo price of 9.63 euros - almost 550 times more than a kilo of salt in the supermarket. In the end, the bird shoots the pepper: 750 mini bags of 0.2 grams each cost 8.50 euros. A kilo price of 5.66. That is a thousand times more than the normal retail price for a kilo of pepper.

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