[SSharon]

With gas prices in the US steadily climbing every day feels like it is the most I have ever paid for a gallon of gas. Then I got to thinking about the tons of products/services I feel like I have been ripped off on in the past and how $4.50 for a gallon of gas isn't such a big deal.

So what is the most you have ever paid for every day items?
$4 for a bottle of water at a baseball game or amusement park? Over $1000 for an airline ticket? How about over $100,000 for a car?

[moonmonkey]

19,000$ for a computer, that's my record.

[MacosNerd]

I spent $24,000 for a truck, that's by far my most expensive purchase aside from my house.

I live modestly, so in general I don't pay a premium for every day items. My biggest weakness I suppose is coffee and I spend 2 dollars a day for a cup of dunkin donuts coffee in the morning.

[Mastrap]

$700 to have an IKEA kitchen cabinet put together - it took the installer just over 3 hours.

[Randman]

I sold my soul to the Devil for rhythm but all I got back was the blues.

[MacosNerd]

Originally Posted by Mastrap 

$700 to have an IKEA kitchen cabinet put together - it took the installer just over 3 hours.

So you basically paid someone 233 dollars an our to assemble cabinets - Wow that's kind of extreme if you don't mind me saying.

I could understand kitchen-aide cabinets or something else but IKEA is designed for the consumer to assemble and then install.

[64stang06]

I used to pay $19.95/month for web hosting (MacDock) before I saw the light and went to TotalChoice Hosting. ($4/month)

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

19,000$ for a computer, that's my record.

Yikes, that is an expensive machine. What year was that purchase in?

[osiris]

over $5000 for a camera (early Sony DV).
Recently over $3000 for a week at a really nice hotel, which would've been more had I not brought in my own booze. Damn minibar prices are criminal!

[RAzaRazor]

I always thought those comparisons about gas prices were kind of silly. News stations like to report that White Out is like $90 a gallon or Printer Ink is $4500 a gallon, so gas prices really aren't that bad after all.

That may be true, but I I don't go through 40 gallons of inkjet ink a month, nor is ink backed by a global supply chain designed to handle hundreds of millions of gallons of the stuff a day.

</Rant>

The most expensive thing I have had to do lately is $2300 bucks to replace a water supply pipe to my house with $30 worth of PEX pipe. Could have done that myself if I had a backhoe.

[gofridge]

gofridge eats a lot, so gofridge's grocery bills are always high.

[Randman]

On my first trip to Dubai, my wife and I were eager to check out the Burj Al-Arab, the 7-star swankiest hotel in the world.

Trouble is you need a reservation to even get in. So we finally got in on the cheapest dinner buffet available. It was still US$300 per and that didn't count drinks or tip.

That said, even being a "low-end" buffet, the food was some of the best, amazing variety and the service was best evah. That and having drinks at the top of the hotel made it money well-spent.

[wallinbl]

$5500 for round trip airfare to Hong Kong
$125 for five cigars (Cuban Cohibas)
$13 for cotton candy
$9 for lemonade

(I have a piano that's worth $125K, but didn't have to pay for it)

[Andy8]

Originally Posted by SSharon 

Yikes, that is an expensive machine. What year was that purchase in?

Quotes in Hong Kong Dollars perhaps?

[subego]

Originally Posted by wallinbl 

$5500 for round trip airfare to Hong Kong
$125 for five cigars
$13 for cotton candy
$9 for lemonade

The look on the face of those Chinese people seeing me with lemonade in one hand, cotton candy in the other, puffing on five cigars at once?

Priceless.

[MacNNUK]

£1,000,000 to buy technical equipment to set up a Breakfast TV programme / Transmission Studio.

Not my money though.

Had the cheque in my hand for a short while.

[rickey939]

$800 for a Henderson '77 Chong RC.

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by wallinbl 

(I have a piano that's worth $125K, but didn't have to pay for it)

What kind of piano is it? I have a Steinway grand piano and it is nowhere near that much. Is it the concert grand or an antique or something?

Originally Posted by Andy8 

Quotes in Hong Kong Dollars perhaps?

Be careful, pretty soon you will be joking about real US dollars.

Originally Posted by subego 

The look on the face of those Chinese people seeing me with lemonade in one hand, cotton candy in the other, puffing on five cigars at once?

Priceless.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by subego 

The look on the face of those Chinese people seeing me with lemonade in one hand, cotton candy in the other, puffing on five cigars at once?

Priceless.

Actually, I did buy the cigars in China.

[wallinbl]

Originally Posted by SSharon 

What kind of piano is it? I have a Steinway grand piano and it is nowhere near that much. Is it the concert grand or an antique or something?

Yes, all three of those! It's an 1886 Steinway Concert Grand (Model C), Brazilian Rosewood. It's gorgeous. I never paid it much attention until it moved into our house, but it's ornate and monstrous.

[scaught]

Originally Posted by rickey939 

$800 for a Henderson '77 Chong RC.

What's it worth now?

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by wallinbl 

Yes, all three of those! It's an 1886 Steinway Concert Grand (Model C), Brazilian Rosewood. It's gorgeous. I never paid it much attention until it moved into our house, but it's ornate and monstrous.

Got any pics? It sounds amazing and I hope it is well insured. Do you keep it in tune and play it regularly or just keep it in tune (not keeping it in tune is simply not an option)?

But to keep on topic I spent $600 on a cell phone just last year and now it is only $200. Yea, I know electronics get cheaper, etc., but I had never spent more than $50 on a phone so it was a big adjustment.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by scaught 

what's It Worth Now?

$1300+

[scaught]

Then $800 wasn't that much...

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by scaught 

Then $800 wasn't that much...

It was at the time, but I knew the ROI was going to be stellar in the long run.

[Eug]

$600 for 1X CD-ROM drive.

[Shaddim]

$45K for my HT speakers.

[BasketofPuppies]

$600 for a watch.

[subego]

$325 to replace a (singular) diamond earring that the dog ate.

[phantomdragonz]

Originally Posted by subego 

$325 to replace a (singular) diamond earring that the dog ate.

I would of given my dog some doggy ex lax and found it... damn gross I would imagine, but worth it! i would have paid for professional cleaning before I gave it back to the S.O. though

-Zach

[subego]

We carefully massaged each poobag, but alas, no luck.

[phantomdragonz]

Originally Posted by subego 

We carefully massaged each poobag, but alas, no luck.

get his stomach x-rayed... it might still be there???

-Zach

[Shaddim]

Originally Posted by phantomdragonz 

get his stomach x-rayed... it might still be there???

-Zach

It's not as if it's a tin of baked beans! What do you mean "open him up"?

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by Shaddim 

$45K for my HT speakers.

Uh, that means $45,000 doesn't it? For some speakers? Do you own a night club or something?

[analogika]

Originally Posted by RAzaRazor 

I always thought those comparisons about gas prices were kind of silly. News stations like to report that White Out is like $90 a gallon or Printer Ink is $4500 a gallon, so gas prices really aren't that bad after all.

That may be true, but I I don't go through 40 gallons of inkjet ink a month, nor is ink backed by a global supply chain designed to handle hundreds of millions of gallons of the stuff a day.

Nor is it subject to rampant investment speculation, which is the single major factor driving up prices.

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by Shaddim 

It's not as if it's a tin of baked beans! What do you mean "open him up"?

Well played.

[Goldfinger]

20 euro for a coke

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

Uh, that means $45,000 doesn't it? For some speakers? Do you own a night club or something?

Not necessarily. Watch this YouTube video. Somewhere along the line the people get asked how much they spent on their audio equipment. Some of them spent upwards of € 100,000 on speakers and turntables alone. Fun to look at their wives' faces as they rattle off the amount of money spent.

[Arkham_c]

I paid $200 for a USED 8 MB SIMM once, and thought it was a good deal at the time.

[residentEvil]

can't say that i have ever paid for X, or sex, which is how i read the title every time.

[paul w]

One time way back when I was really stoned I paid a guy 5 bucks for a single Twinkie.

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by Person Man 

Not necessarily. Watch this YouTube video. Somewhere along the line the people get asked how much they spent on their audio equipment. Some of them spent upwards of € 100,000 on speakers and turntables alone. Fun to look at their wives' faces as they rattle off the amount of money spent.

They're sick. They need treatment. I hope that their families aren't wanting for anything. Funny how one of the guys didn't understand the questions about being crazy, but understood how to give a value to his equipment.

[slugslugslug]

I'm not sure how much my bicycle cost, because I paid for it in little bits, but it must have been well over $3500. And I built it.

But at least I got taught how to braze in the process, and I got wholesale prices on the components. And the frame is one-of-a-kind.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by SSharon 

Yikes, that is an expensive machine. What year was that purchase in?

2008, Hong Kong Dollars im afraid.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

They're sick. They need treatment. I hope that their families aren't wanting for anything. Funny how one of the guys didn't understand the questions about being crazy, but understood how to give a value to his equipment.

I'd MUCH rather spend that kind of money (if I had it to splurge) on a stereo than on a car.

To each his own, I suppose - but I somehow doubt you'd consider someone "sick" or in need of "treatment" for owning a high-end Mercedes or Aston.

[Kerrigan]

X is pretty cheap where I live, but I don't do it much.

[BasketofPuppies]

Originally Posted by analogika 

I'd MUCH rather spend that kind of money (if I had it to splurge) on a stereo than on a car.

To each his own, I suppose - but I somehow doubt you'd consider someone "sick" or in need of "treatment" for owning a high-end Mercedes or Aston.

Did you watch the video?

Those people were constantly buying and replacing new, ultra-expensive audio equipment. (Isn't Greece a poor country?)

It's the difference between having a hobby and being a fanatic.

[analogika]

So? How many people do you know who're constantly fiddling with their cars as a "hobby"?

(And wtf about Greece being a poor country? Large parts of the USA are a "poor country", no?)

[Kerrigan]

Greece is an awful country, "full of dust and homosexuals".

[hayesk]

I have to roll my eyes every time Americans complain about high gas prices. Canadians have it worse, and Europeans have it a lot worse. Outside of Arab countries.