[svandamme]

restaurant prices are not at all representative
they speculate when they buy em, and them hype the stuff so they get a good margin on the bottles, the fancier the restaurant , the more they can hype a bottle and the more ridiculous the pricing becomes... And they can do it, because there are people who go to restaurants , who don't mind paying the prices, because it makes em look like movers and shakers

just look at those Rappers who spend stupid amounts of money , splashing out on bottles of "Crystal" , coz no playa will mess around with anything else, boasting how it costs 8 grand a bottle and what not

well, that one bottle is really worth 189 Euro's if you buy em elsewhere
it's really great doing business, if you can put a 4000% profit margin , and your clientèle thinks it's awesome to throw money down the drain.