Cordless telephones

[Ralph Mowery]

Now they probably do not make that much. The gas was at one time much profit as when the gas was about $ 0.20 a gallon or less. That was what ? around 2% more.

[Ralph Mowery]

Like you hardly sell anything at $ .25 but you can if they are 3 for a dollar.

[Ralph Mowery]

Have not seen a phone booth in years.

I have not tried it,but they say most cell phones will call 911 even if they are not activated.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So it is free then?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

You'd have to be pretty stupid to fall for that.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

an I presume you don't have 0.1 cent coins?

business's taxes slightly by charging 0.99c for stuff.

I'm 42 and the cheapest I remember was =A31 a gallon. 2 star!

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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

It's a wonder anyone files their taxes correctly. This all sounds impossible to calculate.

[clare]

They round down as much as up If it comes out to .96 or .97 they only get .95.

If it's .03 , 02, or .01 they get nothing, if it's .04 they get .05

[James Wilkinson Sword]

It's sold on Ebay in the UK, dunno about over there. It's made in Australia I believe, so probably available worldwide.

I don't much like the flavour of most alcoholic drinks, so I make alcohol with no flavour and add things like orange juice.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So not only can't you guys speak English properly, the politicians don't even speak American.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

ean I presume you don't have 0.1 cent coins?

r business's taxes slightly by charging 0.99c for stuff.

How unexpectedly honest of them!

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[Ed Pawlowski]

People had dumb perceptions about price. I kew a guy that got in early in the packing tape business. He could sell tape at half the price of the 3M stuff. Sales though, were rather dismal. He raised the price to be 15% less and sales tripled overnight. The half price stuff just could not be good enough, but the higher priced stuff was.

[Ralph Mowery]

You are not near old enough to have gone throught the big gas shortage in the US. Not sure what was going on in the other parts of the world.

I really remember buying gas for just under $ 0.30 per gallon. Telling my age of 67. It was less than that before I started driving. Some service stations would give you things from time to time just to get you to stop in. Then they had 'price wars' where the different companies would lower the price to get you to their station. Nothing like that in

50 years.

A big part of that was tax, so gas was probably 10 to 15 cents a gallon without tax, so that extra $ .009 made a lot of extra in those years.

Now not so much as the gas is around $ 2.30 in this area now, and going up because of the flood in Texas where many refineries are. That is going to make a gas shortage or maybe as back in the 1970's a created shortage so the price can go up.

[clare]

I remember $2.65 a liter in 1973/74 on Zambia (conversion from Z Kwacha)

I remember gas wars in the sixties where one station actually paid 2 cents a gallon to people who filled their tanks for a few hours one day. $0.43 per gallon was pretty normal, with under $0.25 per gallon not out of the ordinary

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I had a colleague who shopped like that. If he wanted quality, he looked at the prices. Mind you, he always bought the most expensive, which would have been the 3M. Your guy should have made it cost more than 3M.

Mind you, I can't work out why 3M is still in business. You have to take out a mortgage just to buy a pack of their postit notes. It's just paper and glue, why do they cost so much?

[Ed Pawlowski]

Bought my first car in 1963. Cheapest I recall is 19.9 at the Merit Station, 2 cents more across the street at the Esso. This was full service, of course. Merit stations also sold re-refined oil too. Back then it was common to burn a quart in less than 1000 miles.

Got married in '66 and our first dishes were from the Chevron station. You got a dish with a fill up of 8 gallons or more.

[Mark Lloyd]

Modern pay phones let you dial 911 without coins.

Anyway I don't mean a per-call charge, but a monthly charge on your bill regardless of how many calls you made.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Mobiles don't if you don't know the screen unlock sequence. I ain't letting any old person use my mobile. You can't see the numbers to dial 911 until you unlock the screen.

So you're paying for other peoples' 911 calls? That's theft.

[Unquestionably Confused]

As in a surcharge (tax, a rose by any other name) to fund the toys and goodies the emergency services require to perform their job (and then some, a LOT of then some).

Maybe they don't do that in the UK, but I'll bet if you look hard enough you'll find that all your free shit isn't free and, likely, it's just as shitty as our "free" stuff.

Between the unions (public sector here which represent something on the order of 34%-35% of the employees vs.