List of Absurd Prices for Items - Fun thread for obviously enthusiastic expectations

[Pekka72]

Lucky to get 25 cents for VHS tapes these days. Heck, people are unloading their CDs and DVDs now.

I have a niece and nephew in high school who buy used CD’s even though they have Spotify streaming on a family plan.

 

[tourmax]

That comment was in 2017. Things have changed a bit since then and physical media is having a bit of a resurgence as of late.

So your niece and nephew are right “on trend”…

 

[kwayde]

I have a niece and nephew in high school who buy used CD’s even though they have Spotify streaming on a family plan.

CD's sound better than Spotify so they're hearing the difference.

 

[Chris __R]

Bargain hunters take note:

 

[pauldrewry]

 

[kwayde]

 

[kwayde]

Saw a set for less than $250. This listing is for five speakers.

 

[Chris __R]

Saw a set for less than $250. This listing is for five speakers.

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Yes, but these are Exceptional.

 

[kwayde]

 

[Romeo Wolf]

I forgot to snap a photo of the price but I remember this record player costing something along the lines of $700-something dollars....

 

[Mr.Jim]

It is cool. Maybe $100 cool.

 

[satellite65]

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For that price the silver face better be several pounds of pure silver.

 

[Sansuiman]

@satellite65, no doubt. We hear about the "Marantz tax" (which is absolutely real) but the Pioneer tax and the Sansui tax are just as real, even if the amounts differ..

 

[SaturationPt]

It’s the nostalgia tax, you see it everywhere in vintage/collectible goods.

 

[painttoad]

 

[SaturationPt]

The Pontiac Aztec remained at the top of the Ugliest Car list for so long in one particular car magazine that after enough years they decided it was no longer eligible, just so that they could pick a new Ugliest Car.

Yet, there had to be someone out there who felt that he could make one uglier.

 

[Lavane]

The Pontiac Aztec remained at the top of the Ugliest Car list for so long in one particular car magazine that after enough years they decided it was no longer eligible, just so that they could pick a new Ugliest Car.

Yet, there had to be someone out there who felt that he could make one uglier.

I did kind of like the optional rear hatch pop out tent you could get with them. The rest of the car was designed by someone on crack!

 

[Sansuiman]

Functionally, the Aztek wasn't a bad idea. The execution was seriously lacking, however.

 

[Yodathedog]

Someone thought it up. Someone approved. Someone built it. Someone bought it. Someone had the audacity to customize it.

Where will the madness end??

 

[Lavane]

Someone thought it up. Someone approved. Someone built it. Someone bought it. Someone had the audacity to customize it.

Where will the madness end??

Man, I've seen pictures of some really strange choices of vehicles over the years that big money was spent on. Here locally someone took one of those cheap 70's Japanese economy cars that looks like a box and put a big wind up key on the trunk connected to an electric motor in the trunk to turn it. It looked like a big wind up toy. That one was money well spent. It was funny.