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| james_s:
Well whatever, there is no art in the world that brings me $1,000 worth of joy. There are plenty of nice looking paintings and such that are virtually worthless, I'd take a $30 thrift store artwork and virtually anything remotely useful that the other $970 could buy. To each their own but I will never understand why anyone would pay thousands of dollars for a painting. I can't tell the difference between one that's worth thousands and one that's worth next to nothing. |
| MrMobodies:
--- Quote from: perdrix on September 09, 2021, 01:31:46 am ---The worst one I saw was a serious audiophool exploitation device - a mains lead with a kettle plug on one end a standard mains plug on the other using some rather fancy silver plated cable and some caps/inductors on a boxed PCB in the middle. A steal at a mere $1400. --- End quote --- and the stands to lift them off the floor to eliminate "static". |
| Ground_Loop:
--- Quote from: james_s on September 08, 2021, 09:28:17 pm ---It's just the Apple of outdoor gear, it's decent stuff but it's also a status symbol. If you wish you were selling this sort of stuff what's stopping you? Design something "high end" and sell it, there are lots of people out there who have plenty of money and there is certainly less useful stuff to buy than an expensive cooler or whatever. I'd spend whatever it costs on a Yeti cooler a long time before I'd spend $1,000 on a painting or sculpture and there are paintings and sculptures that sell for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. For something that has no function at all beyond being a high priced status symbol. --- End quote --- Expensive art nearly always appreciates, YETIs don't. I'd buy the art. |
| Gregg:
I recently had a nice gold tooth implant that did come in a very low tech box in its place as part of a plaster cast of the rest of my teeth. By the time it was installed the bill was over $4K. Did I get my money’s worth; probably in the long run. |
| harerod:
--- Quote from: octillion on September 08, 2021, 05:34:02 am ---Quote from: NiHaoMike on 2021-09-08, 05:30:39 Some high end Agilent/Keysight scopes use a power cord that has a notch so that regular computer type power cords won't fit. I haven't looked up the cost for a replacement power cord for one of those scopes but I would imagine it's easily more than 10x the cost to make it. A hobbyist who ends up with one of those scopes could probably just cut a notch in a standard cord to make it fit, or cut out the key in the socket so that it will accept regular power cords. --- End quote --- I'm not sure why Keysight does this (I don't know that there is a legitimate reason to), but that notch is a standard IEC connector for high temperature use. Power cords that include connectors with this notch are rated for higher temperature, and are readily available outside of Keysight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320 --- End quote --- Thank you. We call those without the notch "Kaltgerätestecker" in German. I was going to comment that there is a wiki without English translation: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger%C3%A4testecker#Kaltger%C3%A4testecker_(IEC-60320_C13/C14) --- End quote --- |
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