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RE: Re: The price of hifi...


  • Subject: RE: Re: The price of hifi...
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:31:51 +0100


Watches?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Smith [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 07 May 2004 09:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: The price of hifi...
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> Hi,
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> 	I'd say batteries, just looking in the rapid catalogue=20
> they range from just 10p to over =A3130 and I bet you can get=20
> some much more expensive than that.
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> Regards,
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> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yhkeppy [mailto:keith@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 May 2004 08:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: The price of hifi...
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> The ultimate has to be houses - =A35,000 for a skuzz-bucket in=20
> <insert least favorite town> to c=A31bn for Buckingham Palace.
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> k
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark Harrison \(Yahoo!\)"
<mph@a...>
> wrote:
> > Is there any other type of product where the range in price from
> cheapest-dearest is so big?
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> > We were invited to an evening with Meridian and Dynaudio on
> tuesday, and jolly good fun it was, too.
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> > However, it struck me that one can go into Richer Sounds, and buy
> a pair of speakers for, say, =A350. Alternatively, the most=20
> expensive pair I've heard to date was the Dynaudio Evidence=20
> Master, which cost a cool =A351,000 per pair.
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> > I'm hard pressed to think of ANY other type of new, commodity,
> purchase where you get a range of 1,000-fold from the=20
> cheapest to the most expensive.
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> > New cars, for instance, start at around the =A35k mark for a
Perodua
> thingy... but the most expensive new cars are around the=20
> =A3300k mark -  "only" 60 times more expensive...
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> > Laptops are even more closely bunched.... an "el cheapo end
of
> line", but nonetheless new, laptop can be had for =A3350...
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> you're hard pressed to find anything on the market for more=20
> than 20 times that.
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> > Anything? Boats, maybe?
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> > Mark
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> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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