Things that are just bafflingly expensive

xp ginger wine a grand contender for the 'bafflingly cheap' thread (which I think did get started)

Coffee Table Books of Photography

The most expensive paper money can buy (and the accountants will approve) plus 12 rounds of color correction to print a final print run of maybe 3500 copies IF YOU'RE LUCKY that will never ever earn out the advance paid to the author even if you priced it at $150, which you can't because the market won't bear it. So you price it at $80 or something instead and hope for the most devoted devotees.

They are just really expensive to make and only purchased by a tiny fraction of customers so there's no volume to amortize the costs over.

Yeah, I read this thing about Steidl and how a few evergreen sellers in their catalog (like Robert Frank's the Americans) basically subsidize every other photography book they put out

God bless 'em

1. Truffles. Please explain why they go for such an astonishingly high price.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:50 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-21/truffle-boom-brings-la-dolce-vita-amid-italy-s-economic-slump.html

had truffle not so long ago but it is a source of intense annoyance and regret that I forget what it was like

Was the flavor strong enough to cut through the camambert and chocolate?

After one listentaste I think that 'solid' is the best word to describe this albumfoodstuff

― paolo, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:38 (1 minute ago)

yeah but didn't quite breach the red mullet

i had forgotten you had a thing for redheads

lol

so the carpet did match the drapes?

jfc

Very approrpriate dn

honest question: is this some "impz in your brain" thing that makes you set yourself up for this kind of teasing/jokes?

literally chose a strong-tasting fish at random

my epitaph

honest question: is this some "impz in your brain" thing that makes you set yourself up for this kind of teasing/jokes?

― sarahell, Saturday, 25 October 2014 22:34 (1 minute ago)

'When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.'

otm

many avians are dissatisfied when "breached" with something sardine-sized

:O

what if it is trawler-sized, and what come tail-flickeringly from its dispensation outlet are correspondingly scaled-up so as to be sardine-sized

sorry that's the worst post ever but it's all that sarahel deserves for this grotesque impropriety >:|

imago is this what you mean?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vs8fwgwk0

paulinho

sorry that's the worst post ever but it's all that sarahel deserves for this grotesque impropriety >:|

― pecker shrivellage (imago), Saturday, October 25, 2014 3:06 PM (5 minutes ago)

that doesn't even come close to being your worst post ever

at "Oh! Didn't even tell you" I laughed very hard

i have no fucking idea what that means