Monday, July 9, 2012

$15?!

That's outrageous!  I won't PAY it.



I got nothing so I scanned a Sears catalog from 1908.  $15 for a pocket hammerless.  Sheesh.  And $.90 per magazine...

I was LOOKING for old typewriters.  Hmph.

6 comments:

jon spencer said...

That $15 is about $350 in todays money.
So it looks like things have stayed about the same.

Bubblehead Les. said...

Yeah, but that $15 dollars could have been paid with One GOLD Coin, and you could have gotten SILVER in Change. Nowadays, we pay with NEGATIVE $15 TRILLION Dollar Paper IOUs from the Federale Gooberment.

Tam said...

You used to be able to buy a brand-new Colt's Peacemaker for a shiny $20 gold coin.

Nowadays you still can. ;)

Old NFO said...

Tam beat me to it, kinda sorta... It would actually take about THREE $20 gold coins for a Peacemaker today (if it was a gen 1)...

Tam said...

Old NFO,

Well, I meant an ounce of gold for a new Peacemaker. :o

(Although I suppose you can get a new Colt's for a bit less than MSRP...)

Roberta X said...

And Federal felonies sold for only 75¢!