re: What product did you pay too much for eary in its life

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In 2006, I bought my first flat screen TV. It was a Sharp, LCD, not plasma. 52" Sharp HD. HD was early in its life. I had just won a wad of cash and used it to put a TV/entertainment system in my living room

Paid $5500 for that TV.

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Where the hell did you buy that? I bought a 55" Sony LCD TV in 2005 and paid like $2299 at Best Buy. All told I think I walked out the door at $2695 total.

So my TV was bigger (no big deal) and half the cost of yours, I bought it a year before you, and it wasn't on sale or anything.

Bought a Mitsubishi projection tv in the early 2000’s right when the plasmas were coming out. The plasma tv was like 15k and small.

I paid like $2400 I think for a 55 and it was the big bulky kind with built in speakers. One of the bigger tvs they made at the time. Good picture but it’s crazy how cheap they are now.

1978 microwave $300. Big enough to cook a turkey.

I had a house built in 2007 and the market collapsed right after closing.

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1978 microwave Big enough to cook a turkey.

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It was cooking your turkey that wasn't in the microwave, just extremely slowly. Those old ones were leaky as hell. Don't you feel that weird warmth in your glands?

I think the Oakleys I bought for $135 in the 90s while I was making $4.75 an hour at McDonalds were probably it. Of course, any rando working retail now has a $1,000 phone and a $1,000 car payment.

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What did you pay way too much for but did it anyway

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A GE Advantium

Had to put an extra 220 into the wall behind it to run it on its own circuit but that was at least a quarter century ago and I love that sumb*tch. Put a halogen cooktop in at the same time and it is like cooking with gas but does not turn the kitchen walls brown over time. Still the best way to make microwave biscuits from scratch that come out with a beautiful brown top like they came out of the oven.

Either they were too pricy or a burn hazard (lawsuits) but they did not make it, but mine is still running after all these years. Still have to put on extended full hand and forearm oven mitts when I use it, but what comes out.



Back in the 70's I won an early microwave in the fish fry raffle at church (confession and fish fry make being a Catholic awesome) so it cost me 50 cents (still money back then). It is still in my kitchen after all these years. All my kitchen stuff is GE and most dates back to the 80's or 70's but they all are still working.

That idiot that turned GE from one of the greatest diversified industrial corporations in the world to a finance company may burn in hell for all I care. Short term greed is how you assure not to make America great.

TI calculators that just did basic add/subtract/multiply/divide functions were approx $200 in the 70s.

I bought a portable cellular phone in 1992. It had a full-sized handset and a faux leather bag to carry. I added a car antenna and a handset mount and wired it into the fuse box of my car. I thought I was something. It costs 25 cents/minute to make or receive a call. I paid over $750 back then (~$1700 today) for the setup.

I paid $2400 for a 720i plasma tv from Gateway (remember them?) In 1999.

Got ten years from it.

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Meanwhile i discovered yesterday one of our disposable outdoor TVs died - ordered a sub 300 replacement. Averaging 2-3 year lifespan. A Samsung patio costs like 9 disposable TCL/Hisense.

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Check out Toshiba, I have had one on the patio for 5 years now and it's still going. Recently cleaned it up and moved it inside to the spare bedroom. I think it was around $250.