At the peril of sounding like a classist rich asshole (not from America) it actually is like that though. If you go to a shop without marked prices in some cou

At the peril of sounding like a classist rich asshole (not from America) it actually is like that though. If you go to a shop without marked prices in some country, you can either compare to an equivalent item at home, or to something from a different country that's not up to the prices at home, and still easily be off by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude. And that's even without the "I don't even want to haggle for that amount". But let's say that mug would cost you 5$ in the gift shop in the neighboring city what is it worth to you in the vacation place? Either you don't care, hand them 5$ and think: maybe that will 4$ I overpaid will help you more than my next coffee at home, or you think: I've seen this exact mug at the seemingly more honest shop next door for 1$ - so you'll think that is a fair price? And then you might notice that they would sell it for 20ct to a local, apparently still making some sort of profit. In which scenario does the "ridiculously high" price start? Bonus points if you had already purchased a mug for 10$ in the same country, but in the capital city. My personal opinion for that would be that I'd prefer to give 1$ over haggling down to the local 20ct, which can still be a ridiculous 500% - but it simply won't hurt me. Of course I can stomach the 5$, but it already seems like a bit of a ripoff.