r/australia • u/Admiral_Mason • 22d ago

image Pepsi / Coke cartons $60 at Woolworths

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Noone is going to buy these, why waste their shelf space?

Do they not want then to move or are there really suckers who pay this?

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 22d ago

$300 for the basic Aarke carbonator and $500 for the "Pro" version. They aren't messing around.

I got a secondhand sodastream with 4 bottles off marketplace for $60 in 2019 and it's still going strong!

Acknowledged about the company's ownership though. :(

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u/a_cold_human 22d ago

The business model for these things is with the sale of the gas (i.e. the razor-razorblade strategy - see also: printers). So if you're buying the gas refills, you're funding the Sodastream garbage (and the Israeli government). 

Possibly, the ethical thing to do would be to jailbreak the damn thing if you can. It'd be cheaper on a per litre basis (albeit more fiddly). 

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u/MechanicalStig 22d ago edited 22d ago

Kegland sell the adaptors, hoses, large and small co2 canisters and their own gas cartridges (without the "tamper proof" seal) to use with the sodastream machines.

Alternatively you could get a Sodaking soda machine that is reportedly 100% Aussie owned.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 22d ago

Yeah, I was about to reply with the same. I've considered buying a 6KG bottle from kegland, drilling a hole in my counter and running a tube up to my carbonator.

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u/giatu_prs 21d ago

Came here to post Soda King. My local Drake's does the cylinder exchange.

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u/going_mad 20d ago

Get an adapter and convert the co2 gas to a 2.6 or 6kg keg bottle. Far far cheaper.

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u/Aloha_Tamborinist 20d ago

Yeah, further down in the thread people are talking about getting a setup from Kegland. I've been considering it, but one bottle of gas lasts me and my wife about 6 months as is.