Old Time Prices.

OleBoot
OleBoot Posts: 2,683
edited August 3 in The Clubhouse
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?


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    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.

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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    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.
    Don't take experimental gene therapies from known eugenicists.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    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.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,683
    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 !!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,727
    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. B)
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,081
    FWIW, the sales tax rate here in Charm City is 6%
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,610
    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. B)

    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
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    Did you just allude to bootlegging there, Bandit?
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,751
    tonyp063 wrote: »
    FWIW, the sales tax rate here in Charm City is 6%

    10.2 here...😕
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,751
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,125
    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.
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,081
    ken brydson wrote: »
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    AND you got free steak knives!
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,994
    Along with a vehicle check...

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,610
    edited August 6
    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
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,610
    ken brydson wrote: »
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    I don't recall any self serve up here in the 70's. We were always last.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,994
    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
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    In '91 petro was $1.15 here stateside. When I went on a desert vacation to Saudi Arabia, it was $0.11
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,987
    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
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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