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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 556
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 8:14 pm: | 
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I started looking for several external speakers to buy yesterday. Could not believe that all the different kinds that I have bought for an average of $5 to $7 has gone up to an average of are you ready for this?
"$15.00" for an external speaker! I can only believe that cost of fuel has given some of these distribution companies a way to jack up prices on accessories very quickly.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 429
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:19 pm: |
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Yes, it could be./ Price of food going
up around here due to high gas pump
prices. Cost more to truck things now.
Fuel around here for my car is $2.13
for regular & will go up higher toward
Summer, according to the news reports.
JIM/ PA/ CEF 375 |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5390
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:44 pm: |
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Keith,
Shipping went SKY High way back when fuel was much cheaper.
Figure a dealer has to buy that speaker from a supplier then the supplier needs to buy it from a distributor and the distributor has to buy it from the manufacturer.
And then if it is an independent radio shop he is darn well going to make money on it or go out of business.
And guess what?
YOU are the little man at the end of the line that has to pay all of the rest of them. 
But the higher fuel prices will be handed down to everyone in the long line of products for the public. 
Makes buying your equipment from Copper with the LOW prices much more attractive for the Copper Forum Members. 
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
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477
Intermediate Member
Username: 477
Post Number: 109
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 8:47 am: |
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Subject: Just a little humor at the pump
Think a gallon of gas is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.
Compared with Gasoline ...................................
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ........ $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19...........$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ...... $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid12 oz $3.15 $33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 .... $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ..... $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ......... .. $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49..........$21.19 per gallon?!
$21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the
source. (Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, or God forbid Pepto Bismal or Nyquil.
Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...
CEF:227 Pennsylvania.
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Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5436
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:17 am: |
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And the funny thing is I have not seen any posts from people crying about the prices you posted above.
I guess if it goes in the Tummy it is ok but if it goes in the Tank LOOK OUT!
Oh you also forgot the price of Tidy Bowl Toilet Cleaner. 
We get a kick out of the people who take gallon jugs into the supermarkets here to fill them from the Water Machines at 2.50 a gallon because it says PURE WATER.
Guess they forget to look at the water line hooked to the machine from the City Water Supply pumping all that water into it.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
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Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 455
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:24 am: |
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39-49 cents a gallon here, but yes the city supply does feed the machine. |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 456
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:41 am: |
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Also makes me think, where does this Arkansas mountain spring water that I buy in six packs of 17oz. bottles at $1.00 a six pack, come from. |
Scrapiron63
Advanced Member
Username: Scrapiron63
Post Number: 805
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 11:40 am: |
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Yankee, that Arkansas Mountain Spring Water is suppose to come from the springs around Hot Springs, Arkansas. But who knows. I read not long about about one company down there that advertised their's as spring water and come to find out it was coming right from the Hot Springs City water supply, of course it was ok, just not as advertised.
Everyone to their old thinking, but I know our city water is safe where I live, and I had much rather trust it than something in a bottle I know nothing about. |
Racer_x
Intermediate Member
Username: Racer_x
Post Number: 250
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 12:25 pm: |
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Buy yourself an Reverse Osmosis water filtration system, or if you want really pure water buy a water distiller. I bought one years ago at Sears for less than $100 on sale and I've NEVER bought bottled water. |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 441
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 6:05 pm: |
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Its been on the news that soaring
diesel fuel prices is effecting food
costs and a chain reaction of other
products./ As for water, i have a water
filtration like Racer X speaks about./
Who knows where that stuff from the stores
comes from. Could come from our local creeks
as far as we know...LOL.../ 477, that gas
pump humor was a good one... LOL... Hopefully,
it never comes down to us having to fill our
tanks with Nyquil./ But, of course people
are going to cry about high prices./ You got
to remember there's less fortunate people
out there than some of us./ The person doing
his best only to find a $5.15 hr job./ Minus
cost of health insurance, minus cost of
killer gas prices just to go to work, minus
soaring house-hold bills, what! none left
for high cost of food./ How about somebody
being disabled, they didn't ask to be
that way./ Just be thankful some of us
don't have to cry about these things./ And
let those alone that just want to get it off there chest...
JIM/ PA/ CEF 375 |
Red_ranger
New member
Username: Red_ranger
Post Number: 5
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 8:24 pm: |
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Has anybody found those electromagnetic impulse generators, yet??? |
Unit199
Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 94
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 5:11 am: |
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I will try not to get carried away with my post. I have been disabled since 1995 and my check is for a whopping $409.50 a month. I have medicare which pays for 80% of my medical and leaves me 20% to pay. That may not sound like too much, but the last time I had a stroke, I was in Intensive Care in a coma for about three months at over $6000 a day. Figure 20% of that and what my end will pay. On top of this I have $595.28 a month for medicine
which thank the companies that help with medication and my family that provides my pleasures in life, like my CB & ham equipment. I just live life the best I can and leave the rest up to the Man upstairs. I may not be in excellent health, but it sure beats the alternative.
I don't have to worry about the price of gas because I can't drive anymore. So you see, they have taken almost everything from me, but they can't take my pride and dignity. Thanks Forummaster for the place to vent my frustrations.
Semper Fi!!!
Unit199
Harve
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Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 247
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:16 am: |
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Unit199 I'll be reading the mail for you sir here in Indiana. God Bless |
Redwolf_145
New member
Username: Redwolf_145
Post Number: 5
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 4:39 am: |
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409.50 Wow You Are Gettin The shaft... here in oklahoma there Getttin 500 and up i know someone that Get almost 600 a month... even at that it isn't enought to live off that is for the whole month where most poeple are getting around 800 a month... |
