Originally posted by: KlokWyze
rent!
+ electric bill. We were 2 weeks past the due date & they came in shut our power off without warning.....
Originally posted by: JS80
Nothing is technically "over-priced" except for monopoly goods such as Microsoft products and some utilities.
This thread is full of commie idiots.
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: KlokWyze
rent!
+ electric bill. We were 2 weeks past the due date & they came in shut our power off without warning.....
You had 2 weeks' warning, what do you expect?
Originally posted by: JS80
Nothing is technically "over-priced" except for monopoly goods such as Microsoft products and some utilities.
This thread is full of commie idiots.
Microsoft is a monopoly? Not for decades.
Apple bundles MUCH more software into their OS (you know, the behavior that got MS in trouble back in the day) than Microsoft EVER did.
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: pontifex
guns, especially after Nov. 4th 2008.
food and drinks at amusement parks/events/etc.
i was at a gun show at the Harrisburg Farm Show Complex and the soda machines wanted $3.00 for a 20 oz. soda (even bottled water).
WTF?
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: gorcorps
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: pontifex
guns, especially after Nov. 4th 2008.
food and drinks at amusement parks/events/etc.
i was at a gun show at the Harrisburg Farm Show Complex and the soda machines wanted $3.00 for a 20 oz. soda (even bottled water).
WTF?
What? He's right. Anti-gun democrat got elected, so guns started being bought up like crazy in case Obama changes/bans gun sales. Simple supply/demand increases price. What's the big deal?
Despite all of the times Obama has mentioned that he has no desire to take away anyone's guns, I remain baffled as to how this BS propagates itself. Are people still clinging to that "guns and religion" comment? You realize that had nothing to do with gun restrictions; he was characterizing how certain people react in fear to desperate situations. which was quite apt.
well hell, look up there. You even said "in case." you peons can't even make up your own minds about someone without assuming the democrat label means anti-gun. what the hell.
the prices may have gone up, but only because of the pea-brained reactionists making baseless assumptions. In no way is that Obama's fault.
Do a Google search for "DIY Fleshlight" and click "I'm feeling lucky".Originally posted by: Newbian
Fleshlights.
Where can you get used ones for cheaper prices?
Originally posted by: her209
Do a Google search for "DIY Fleshlight" and click "I'm feeling lucky".Originally posted by: Newbian
Fleshlights.
Where can you get used ones for cheaper prices?
Originally posted by: Farang
airfare. more bare bones carriers are needed.. safety standards need to be reduced for everything except things required to make the aircraft run. Let me go on an airline whose planes are an empty shell and i am strapped to the floor, as long as its cheap.
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: techs
Cereal. How the heck can a box of cornflakes cost 4-5 dollars? The corn and ingredients don't cost 10 cents. The production, packaging and shipping can't cost more than a 25 cents.
It's insane that they charge 4-5 dollars for a box of cornflakes.
Tony the Tiger gets a really high salary. A box of store brand cornflakes is usually under $2. Production, packaging, shipping (and advertising) cost a lot more than you think.
Originally posted by: oddyager
Food in general. They attributed the soaring prices to the rise in fuel costs yet with fuel now at half at what it was, food prices stayed the same.
You think that during the last 6 weeks, they planted a crop of wheat, fertilized the crop of wheat, applied insecticides to the crop of wheat, harvested the wheat, produced flour from the wheat, produced cereal from the flour... all in 6 weeks? Transporting the product to the grocery store is just one part of the fuel required. Food takes a while to grow.
Grain prices have only recently begun to fall. It's going to take a while before that "works its way through the system." The beef you're eating today has been eating that expensive grain for 2 years. Just because grain prices are down 25% in the last 2 months, doesn't mean that it cost the rancher 25% less to produce his cattle over the last 2 years.
Originally posted by: Eeezee
Broadband internet is way too expensive for the services provided. Go anywhere else in the world and you get more for less. Countries with comparable broadband speeds to the average US figure pay considerably less for those speeds.
Health care costs are insane, and there's absolutely no reason for that. Research costs can be high for certain drugs, but those costs are often recouped in the first year of sale. Yet the pill's price never seems to go down. And then the company developing the pill complains about everyone buying a generic brand. If you want to increase demand for your product, lower your price! And let's not get into the other costs that are way overinflated.
Has anyone mentioned diamonds? They're not particularly rare, but diamond suppliers make believe otherwise.
A lot of people are complaining about airfare, but you may be surprised exactly how much it really costs to run an airline. Planes aren't cheap, and neither are the countless people required to service them, deal with customer complaints, etc. Someone suggested "just tie me to the floor of the plane" but that would actually decrease profits, since it's more efficient to place people in chairs (each chair having a negligible cost compared to the rest of the plane) than to sprawl them all around the plane's floor.
Originally posted by: puffff
But what about all the research for drugs that never made it past the development stages? Not every effort churns out a blockbuster. Not only does a drug need to recoup its own cost, it has to fund the next few dozen efforts, not all of which will be successful.
Originally posted by: vi edit
Cooktops. An electric cooktop by itself is like $600. The same frigging thing INCLUDING an oven is like $450.
How does that make sense?
Originally posted by: theblackbox
Originally posted by: vi edit
Cooktops. An electric cooktop by itself is like $600. The same frigging thing INCLUDING an oven is like $450.
How does that make sense?
dude. i love Restore. they usually have some good tops cheap. I just picked up a kohler iron sink with a nice moen faucet for 35 bucks. (all black) looked like it was pulled from a new house because someone didn't want black or wanted something else.
But at least the one in the springs always has some nice cooktops fairly cheap.
Restore is a great place to shop.
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: theblackbox
Originally posted by: vi edit
Cooktops. An electric cooktop by itself is like $600. The same frigging thing INCLUDING an oven is like $450.
How does that make sense?
dude. i love Restore. they usually have some good tops cheap. I just picked up a kohler iron sink with a nice moen faucet for 35 bucks. (all black) looked like it was pulled from a new house because someone didn't want black or wanted something else.
But at least the one in the springs always has some nice cooktops fairly cheap.
Restore is a great place to shop.
Nice, I've been meaning to visit the ReStores here. I didn't think they had appliances...