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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 10, 2019 9:42:07 GMT -5
My dad once budgeted $500 or so for a washing machine and had me go to the store with him I guess as a lesson on how to make sure you don’t get screwed over by a salesman or just because he was lonely. By the end of it he was signed up to pay $1,000+ for the washing machine.
I guess he had some sense though as he later canceled that order.
Yep, son. That’s [not] how you do it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 9:49:55 GMT -5
I paid 180 quid for a Nine inch nails ticket, when the cover price was 30 quid. Seems a lot then, but now, rather bargainous.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Feb 10, 2019 11:37:05 GMT -5
A couple dollars worth of Miller Lite for ten bucks at a Mavericks game. Haven’t been to a Cowboys one since they moved into a new stadium but I bet it’s even worse.
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Post by chrom on Feb 10, 2019 11:39:52 GMT -5
There's a sucker born every minute afterall
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Post by The Ichi on Feb 10, 2019 11:51:49 GMT -5
I work in a pretty posh supermarket, so I regularly get 400-500 quid weekly shops.
Most I've spent myself is probably a 3 week vacation to Florida. Plane plus theme park tickets alone was probably a year of wages.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 10, 2019 12:01:35 GMT -5
My buddy paid a ridiculous amount of money for a stuffed animal monkey at FAO Schwarz when he went to New York.
Like a normal sized stuffed animal. He told me to guess how much he paid, and I started at $40. He said higher. I said $50. He said I was close. I asked how much, and he said he was embarrassed to say.
So, I didn't get the exact price, but anything over $20 for a stuffed animal is insane to me. And it was for him, not a gift for somebody.
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 10, 2019 12:45:44 GMT -5
Honestly...because I'm a whore for them, some of the amiibo that I've gotten would probably qualify.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Feb 10, 2019 14:51:45 GMT -5
While in Vegas at a dueling piano bar, my friends and I befriended this older Australian dude who put down near a grand to get his dueling piano to play “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey.
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Post by Display Name on Feb 10, 2019 15:29:47 GMT -5
While in Vegas at a dueling piano bar, my friends and I befriended this older Australian dude who put down near a grand to get his dueling piano to play “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey. What a dumbass. That annoying ass song is guaranteed to be played at least twice a night at a piano bar ha.
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Post by Paul on Feb 10, 2019 15:51:00 GMT -5
I paid $8 for a fruit smoothie drink at Jamba Juice. Like, it was okay, but not "$8 okay", you know?
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 10, 2019 15:53:10 GMT -5
Friend of mine paid full price for Fallout 76.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 10, 2019 16:04:11 GMT -5
Friend of mine paid full price for Fallout 76. Someone you know PAID for Fallout 76?
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Post by Larryhausen on Feb 10, 2019 19:51:30 GMT -5
Once took an Uber to a bar, ordered a beer, then realized I left my wallet at home.
Opened a tab, took another Uber back home, then back to the bar.
That one beer cost me like 40 bucks.
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Post by ERON on Feb 10, 2019 22:21:00 GMT -5
At one point I was determined to have every available sci-fi movie from the '50s in my DVD collection. To this end, I paid $80 for a copy of Beginning of the End.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 11, 2019 17:30:34 GMT -5
Once took an Uber to a bar, ordered a beer, then realized I left my wallet at home. Opened a tab, took another Uber back home, then back to the bar. That one beer cost me like 40 bucks. I once was staying in a hotel and realized I lost my lighter. I didn’t feel like driving and went to the pub across the street to get matches. I realized I couldn’t well ask for matches and just leave. So I ordered a drink gulped it down and left. Paid like $5 plus tip for free matches.
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Post by ayumidah on Feb 11, 2019 18:22:40 GMT -5
My mother spent weeks complaining about how tight my doorknob felt, that she was having trouble opening my bedroom door. Kept telling her to stop being so rough with it. Well, the day came when she opened the door and the knob fell apart in her hand.
Would've been ok except the goof proceeded to close the door with me inside and it stuck with no way to open it since both knobs were off by then. She refused to help me get out through my window and ended up paying a repair guy $100 to jimmy the door open, buy a new doorknob and install it. She was a bit annoyed when I told her I'd been looking at similar doorknobs for $15, heh.
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Post by Powerline on Feb 12, 2019 6:58:10 GMT -5
I used to work with someone who was a total shyster when it came to selling stuff. It was always odd stuff (comic book merchandise, game consoles with odd, 3rd party accessories) and he'd talk them up and then want prices way out of range. I remember the one he always tried to push on me (other than a used PS4 and one $15-20 3rd party game for the same price as one of those new PS4s bundled with a high-demand game) he wanted to sell a Walking Dead sword and would tell me (and everyone else) it was, like $500 and 1 of 500. If you looked on eBay, you'd find the exact same sword , but that it was 1 in 1,500 and sold for about $200. But it was always stuff like that; insane markups and false info. And he'd worked at the store for years so people who didn't have a clue or the foresight to look it up themselves would think he was being honest. He's got a rep for being honest and hardworking with customers, but had a rep with anyone...ANYONE...that ever worked with the guy for being lazy and a total weasel.
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Post by CMPunkyBrewster on Feb 12, 2019 7:16:07 GMT -5
On kind of the same page, my mom's husband (who is a great guy) tends to screw himself out of things by being misguided. My favorite example:
He's a musician, like myself. He has this bass cabinet that is really rare because it runs at like, 3 ohms (most amps run at either 4, 8, or 16 ohms). Problem is, there is absolutely NO demand in the world for this cabinet because the only amps it's actually compatible with were discontinued YEARS ago (along with the cabinets), and never really took off anyway because, well, they run at 3 ohms and don't work correctly with anything else.
He has tried to sell this thing for YEARS (probably 10+ at this point) and wants WAY too much money for it because it's rare. But he can't grasp that it is rare because nobody wanted it when it was new, let alone now that it's 20+ years old and has completely disappeared from the world.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Feb 12, 2019 8:03:43 GMT -5
My sister owns such expensive shit that are quite frankly so ugly.
Personally I buy stuff new despite finding a perfectly acceptable used alternative.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 21, 2019 7:36:48 GMT -5
On kind of the same page, my mom's husband (who is a great guy) tends to screw himself out of things by being misguided. My favorite example: He's a musician, like myself. He has this bass cabinet that is really rare because it runs at like, 3 ohms (most amps run at either 4, 8, or 16 ohms). Problem is, there is absolutely NO demand in the world for this cabinet because the only amps it's actually compatible with were discontinued YEARS ago (along with the cabinets), and never really took off anyway because, well, they run at 3 ohms and don't work correctly with anything else. He has tried to sell this thing for YEARS (probably 10+ at this point) and wants WAY too much money for it because it's rare. But he can't grasp that it is rare because nobody wanted it when it was new, let alone now that it's 20+ years old and has completely disappeared from the world. Stuff like that is super annoying, especially for your mom's husband. It's like you can see the big profit if you get just one buyer. Just one. But you could be waiting as long time. Or forever.
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