Have you noticed any prices going DOWN?

Oaktree · Mar 16, 2022

ultrarunner said:
TV prices keep falling like for like...

Electronics in general. I remember buying a pocket calculator in the mid 70s for a bit over $100 (~$600 in today's dollars). Today one with equal capabilities goes for $5.

Hay Dude · Mar 16, 2022

3gunr said:
How can they prove he got covid from dressing a deer. They cant even tell you if you have covid with any certainty,and no one has gotten cwd from eating venison.

He read it in Mother Earth News lol

Alan W. · Mar 16, 2022

Oaktree said:
Electronics in general. I remember buying a pocket calculator in the mid 70s for a bit over $100 (~$600 in today's dollars). Today one with equal capabilities goes for $5.

Still have my brothers and it works fine.

And yes it was costly for my parents at the time.

5030 · Mar 16, 2022

I have the same on and I bought it new. Amazing how cheap they got...

Fuel came down a tad here, just a tad (ORD), but nowhere near what it was a year ago.

ultrarunner · Mar 17, 2022

Yep my HP SR11

Oaktree said:
Electronics in general. I remember buying a pocket calculator in the mid 70s for a bit over $100 (~$600 in today's dollars). Today one with equal capabilities goes for $5.

JDZ735M · Mar 17, 2022

jyoutz said:
A lot of items at the dollar store are now $1.50.

Our Dollar Store only went up to $1.25.

Oaktree · Mar 17, 2022

Alan W. said:
Still have my brothers and it works fine.

And yes it was costly for my parents at the time.

I think mine was a Casio. Still have it somewhere. Still works, but some of the buttons are flakey.
Got this one specifically because the numbers are blue/green...much easier for me to see than red.

Jstpssng · Mar 17, 2022

I had a nice HP11C, but accidentally dropped it into an open #4 double coil spring... dead center on the pan. It didn’t work very well after that but I was able to send it away and they replaced it. I had written a program to check the error of closure for surveys when I was laying out precommercial thinning blocks. This saved me going back and running it through their computer to make sure it was OK.

A coworker decided they needed it more than I did, and they were no longer offered.