Whoever priced this needs to be beaten with the cup
With our current currency valuation it’s more like 300usd, but yeah, insane scam even if it’s really hand carved.
Souvenirs in normal souvenir shops are already overpriced. Buying souvenirs (or anything really) at the airport is madness.
4000KR???? i have like 3 of those stashed in a cupboard that ive gotten for free from school events😨
Must be a typo? Probably costs 339
WHAT
Pfffthaha!
Yeah, so, you can get those cups for $10-20. No, they’re not gonna be “hand carved” – but you wanna know the real kicker? We Norwegians would rather have those anyway, because nobody wants to pay a $380 premium to have someone’s dirty fingers all over their drinking mug. That’s “authentic”.
you get similar cups for 199,- NOK at XXL, no chance that isn’t a typo
That must be a typo!
There is also an airport shuttle bus company in Trondheim which scams tourists and nobody cares.
Kriminelt
What’s that thing costing 1200?
That has to be price gouging.
Wtf
Moxnes could get a nice 5-finger discount on that one!
Made in China?
Cmon must be a mistake or smth
So now I see why sperm price is also decent, because it is hand made!
That better be signed by every norwegian monarch in history
I get these for free when I donate blood. That price is insane. Google says these cups are commonly priced at 2-400 NOK.
There is one reasonable explanation, and that is if that’s a real handmade [guksi](https://nn.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guksi), made from a birch burl (unlike those cheap ones you buy from XXL). An excellent quality with the ones made from burls is that they don’t crack from use with fluids, unlike wooden cups made from straight pieces.
To have this quality they have to be handmade, as this is the only way to hollow the burl out in the right way. Machine working a burl is dangerous: the piece might jump of the grips because of tension in the burled wood.
Finding burls with the right size and quality is rare, and they also need to be stored just right for years in a sequence of storages before being worked.
Combined these steps make for expensive and beautiful cups that can last for several lifetimes.
It’s Gardemoen. They give no fucks
Ni må börja pumpa mer olja för att försvara värdet på ett krona.
The cup is not the same as the ones you buy at XXL. From the picture it looks like a burl. They do grow on trees, but aren’t very common. Once it is cut down from the tree, it needs to dry for about a year before you start working it. It also looks like some kind of bone, probably reindeer or moose. However. The price is around twice as much (as everything else on Gardermoen) as if you would buy elsewhere (farmersmarket or Finn). Check out kotekopp.
Oo I carved one of these from a burl when I lived in Norway (for free)
No actually, please do buy this. You can get temu stuff here like in any other country, so if you’re gonna get something souvenir-y, get something nice that supports the locals 🇳🇴
Just in case there are foreigners paying attention to this post;
This is from XXL, a sportswear/Sportsgear shop with departments all over Norway. Do NOT buy the cup depicted here!
Suddenly Icelandic prices don’t look so insane.
Imagine being one of those humans that buy this piece of shiet
Has no one seen how much they sell brown cheese at the airport for? I don’t quite remember the price and it’s at the same shop if I’m not mistaken but it’s something crazy like 20 times more than the store for the very humble tine. Everything they have at that “gift” store is so overpriced it’s laughable
Shops in airport malls are just insane. If you get bored so easily that you enjoy shopping there before boarding your plane regardless of the absurd prices, you are the target group.
Wow, I thought I’d seen everything but that is insane. I wonder how many rich tourists they’ve conned with that.
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Whoever priced this needs to be beaten with the cup
With our current currency valuation it’s more like 300usd, but yeah, insane scam even if it’s really hand carved.
Souvenirs in normal souvenir shops are already overpriced. Buying souvenirs (or anything really) at the airport is madness.
4000KR???? i have like 3 of those stashed in a cupboard that ive gotten for free from school events😨
Must be a typo? Probably costs 339
WHAT
Pfffthaha!
Yeah, so, you can get those cups for $10-20.
No, they’re not gonna be “hand carved” – but you wanna know the real kicker?
We Norwegians would rather have those anyway, because nobody wants to pay a $380 premium to have someone’s dirty fingers all over their drinking mug. That’s “authentic”.
you get similar cups for 199,- NOK at XXL, no chance that isn’t a typo
That must be a typo!
There is also an airport shuttle bus company in Trondheim which scams tourists and nobody cares.
Kriminelt
What’s that thing costing 1200?
That has to be price gouging.
Wtf
Moxnes could get a nice 5-finger discount on that one!
Made in China?
Cmon must be a mistake or smth
So now I see why sperm price is also decent, because it is hand made!
That better be signed by every norwegian monarch in history
I get these for free when I donate blood. That price is insane. Google says these cups are commonly priced at 2-400 NOK.
There is one reasonable explanation, and that is if that’s a real handmade [guksi](https://nn.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guksi), made from a birch burl (unlike those cheap ones you buy from XXL). An excellent quality with the ones made from burls is that they don’t crack from use with fluids, unlike wooden cups made from straight pieces.
To have this quality they have to be handmade, as this is the only way to hollow the burl out in the right way. Machine working a burl is dangerous: the piece might jump of the grips because of tension in the burled wood.
Finding burls with the right size and quality is rare, and they also need to be stored just right for years in a sequence of storages before being worked.
Combined these steps make for expensive and beautiful cups that can last for several lifetimes.
It’s Gardemoen. They give no fucks
Ni må börja pumpa mer olja för att försvara värdet på ett krona.
The cup is not the same as the ones you buy at XXL. From the picture it looks like a burl. They do grow on trees, but aren’t very common. Once it is cut down from the tree, it needs to dry for about a year before you start working it. It also looks like some kind of bone, probably reindeer or moose. However. The price is around twice as much (as everything else on Gardermoen) as if you would buy elsewhere (farmersmarket or Finn). Check out kotekopp.
Oo I carved one of these from a burl when I lived in Norway (for free)
No actually, please do buy this. You can get temu stuff here like in any other country, so if you’re gonna get something souvenir-y, get something nice that supports the locals 🇳🇴
Just in case there are foreigners paying attention to this post;
[https://www.xxl.no/eagle-products-wooden-cup-two-fingers-trekopp/p/1103729_1_Style](https://www.xxl.no/eagle-products-wooden-cup-two-fingers-trekopp/p/1103729_1_Style)
This is from XXL, a sportswear/Sportsgear shop with departments all over Norway.
Do NOT buy the cup depicted here!
Suddenly Icelandic prices don’t look so insane.
Imagine being one of those humans that buy this piece of shiet
Has no one seen how much they sell brown cheese at the airport for? I don’t quite remember the price and it’s at the same shop if I’m not mistaken but it’s something crazy like 20 times more than the store for the very humble tine. Everything they have at that “gift” store is so overpriced it’s laughable
Shops in airport malls are just insane. If you get bored so easily that you enjoy shopping there before boarding your plane regardless of the absurd prices, you are the target group.
Wow, I thought I’d seen everything but that is insane. I wonder how many rich tourists they’ve conned with that.
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