Old Time Prices.

OleBoot

I stumbled across this while looking for an old email. It's an order confirmation for what was then a reasonably esoteric piece of equipment. It went up in smoke (literally) maybe two years later and was unsavable. Anybody else got some old pricing examples?

mhardy6647

All y'all've seen my Model 7A (demos) receipt from Soundscape. A proudly retained relic. The receipt that is, not the loudspeakers -- they're not relics, at least in my estimation.

xschop

Nice nostalgia @mhardy6647. What is the current tax rate for that area now? Looks like it was only 5% at the time.

I miss 2016-2020's effective tax rate and goods/services prices myself.

msg

I keep a bunch of trivial stuff like this. I'll have to dig through my old tub 'nostalgia, and see what I have in there. A few things come to mind.

OleBoot

msg wrote: »

I keep a bunch of trivial stuff like this. I'll have to dig through my old tub 'nostalgia, and see what I have in there. A few things come to mind.

Most of the prices weren't trivial to me at the time !!

mhardy6647

xschop wrote: »

Nice nostalgia @mhardy6647. What is the current tax rate for that area now? Looks like it was only 5% at the time.

I miss 2016-2020's effective tax rate and goods/services prices myself.

I don't know what it is now More than 5%.
Where we live now, it's zero percent.

tonyp063

FWIW, the sales tax rate here in Charm City is 6%

boston1450

mhardy6647 wrote: »

xschop wrote: »

Nice nostalgia @mhardy6647. What is the current tax rate for that area now? Looks like it was only 5% at the time.

I miss 2016-2020's effective tax rate and goods/services prices myself.

I don't know what it is now More than 5%.
Where we live now, it's zero percent.

NH is the go to state to shop for us in Maine. We go to Portsmouth 4 times a year to buy clothes electronics appliances. It's worth the 1+ hour ride & we usually make a day event & stop at the Kittery Trading Post / York Animal Park. Sometimes we stop at the Liquor Store as well

msg

Did you just allude to bootlegging there, Bandit?

ken brydson

tonyp063 wrote: »

FWIW, the sales tax rate here in Charm City is 6%

10.2 here...😕

ken brydson

motorstereo

I saved myself $635.00 in taxes when I bought my Mcintosh amps in NH as opposed to here in Ct. 5 years ago. That was well worth the 2 hour trip to Nashua.
Gas used to be cheaper in NH but now is about the same price as here in Ct. I have heard cigs and liquor are still a lot cheaper.
Also Ct's fireworks are pale in comparison to the good stuff that the granite state has. In 2008 I brought home several hundred $ worth of the good stuff and I had by far the best display around. I swore if I made it through that 4th without getting arrested I'd never bring any more back. Thankfully I didn't get pinched and that was the last of the illegal NH fireworks here.

tonyp063

ken brydson wrote: »

AND you got free steak knives!

treitz3

Along with a vehicle check...

Tom

boston1450

Remember pulling into a gas station. Full service. Washed the windows. Checked the oil. Added air to the tires. That was service. I remember the paper oil cans with tin top/bottom & the spout they jab'd into it top & poured it into the oil fill. Gas was so cheap we didn't even pay attn to the price EDIT well I was only 8 lol

boston1450

ken brydson wrote: »

I don't recall any self serve up here in the 70's. We were always last.

treitz3

The last time I was up north? They wanted almost $5 or $6 a gallon and I was not allowed to pump my own gas.

I drove to a different state to fill up. That was bonkers to me. No service.....this was just to fill your tank.

Tom

xschop

In '91 petro was $1.15 here stateside. When I went on a desert vacation to Saudi Arabia, it was $0.11

msg

Yeah, these days I don't think I'd trust anyone to put my gas cap back on, let alone fuel it. It'd be like some version of

BlueBirdMusic

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