Things that cost way more than they should.

[PHiuR]

cigarettes

 

[videogames101]

DVI Cables @ best buy,

$20 for 3ft, are you kidding me?

 

[RaistlinZ]

Ground beef. I'm seeing 1.33lb of 92% lean selling for $6.50-$7.00 here in northern VA.

 

[IronWing]

Depends

 

[KlokWyze]

rent!

+ electric bill. We were 2 weeks past the due date & they came in shut our power off without warning..... in December! Luckily it was a nice day, but still...

 

[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).

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Video games. It costs $.50-$1 to print and package a CD, then maybe another $2 to ship the game to the store. I know that development/marketing costs are high, but if developers would just use decent anti-piracy measures (think Stardock's approach), then it wouldn't really be a problem. Or put some advertising/product placement in games to reduce the price - I don't mind paying $20 instead of $50 if I have to see a few billboards/an ad during loading.

 

[iRONic]

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.

Bad bad idea. Think "Give 'em an inch..." You don't want to fly on a carrier with that policy.

<-------Aircraft maintenance technician

 

[Svnla]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Oranges/orange juice. $5-$7 a gallon now. WTF???

Text messages. These cost cell phone companies near ZERO because it's small data packets travelling over an existing paid for data network. I read somewhere it's 4x more expensive per character to send a text message than to get information from the Hubble telescope.

You must be buying from brand name OJ such as MinuteMaid.

I almost always bought store brands and they are pretty good tastewise. Just bought 1 gal of OJ from Brookshire <regional store> for $2.89 plus sale taxes.

Expensive texting? SERO FTW.

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Video games. It costs $.50-$1 to print and package a CD, then maybe another $2 to ship the game to the store. I know that development/marketing costs are high, but if developers would just use decent anti-piracy measures (think Stardock's approach), then it wouldn't really be a problem. Or put some advertising/product placement in games to reduce the price - I don't mind paying $20 instead of $50 if I have to see a few billboards/an ad during loading.

You do know that a pirated copy != a potential sale?

And that stardock might as well have shot itself?


I agree on ads though.

 

[Baked]

Everything made by Apple.

 

[CPA]

n/m

 

[Spook]

any EE processors.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: KlokWyze
rent!

+ electric bill. We were 2 weeks past the due date & they came in shut our power off without warning..... in December! Luckily it was a nice day, but still...

Pay your bills you fucking deadbeat.

 

[videogames101]

Apple products.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: iRONic

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.

Bad bad idea. Think "Give 'em an inch..." You don't want to fly on a carrier with that policy.

<-------Aircraft maintenance technician

No I want you guys to have the highest standards but as far as customer service, comfort, etc., do away with all of it. If a carrier like Air Asia can get me from Malaysia to London for something like $350 it makes me wonder what airlines like United are blowing their money on that makes their fares so much more expensive.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Monster Cables. Fuck them.

/thread

 

[venkman]

diesel jeans and bulk beef

 

[TheInternet1980]

Originally posted by: savoyboy
women

Chillin' in the backseat of a cop car?

 

[silverpig]

Fucking movie theater popcorn. $6 for 4c worth of corn.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: savoyboy
women

If you knew how to get one, you wouldn't have to pay for a hooker.

 

[Shadow Conception]

guitar capos

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: savoyboy

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: savoyboy
women

If you knew how to get one, you wouldn't have to pay for a hooker.

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I think what he was saying was that you wouldn't have to pay those girls there to take pictures with them and handcuff them

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: chin311
draft beer in restaurants

here mother fucking here

6 dollars for a fucking Draft? are you serious?

 

[venkman]

op's mom

 

[DVad3r]

American Cars