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[derspiess]

God I loved the sears catalogs.

How old are you spiess, you must be older than I was thinking?

39.  With 2 older brothers, I was a bit precocious.  And I have a pretty solid memory starting with when I was 3 years old.  So I consider myself a child of both the 70s and 80s.

[derspiess]

Btw, holy shit.  A 25" color TV cost $500 in 1979, or over $1500 adjusted for inflation.  I suppose that seems about right, but still, yikes.

[Habbaku]

Btw, holy shit.  A 25" color TV cost $500 in 1979, or over $1500 adjusted for inflation.  I suppose that seems about right, but still, yikes.

It's times like these that I wish I could find CdM's hysterics over the Supreme Court ruling about per se price-arrangements in consumer items.  I distinctly recall him saying that TVs would be many thousands of dollars or somesuch, and he wasn't the only one freaking out.

[garbon]

God I loved the sears catalogs.

I did that as well in the early 90s.

[CountDeMoney]

God I loved the sears catalogs.

I used to open them from the other end, and read them like the Torah, because all the toy stuff was in the back. 

[CountDeMoney]

Btw, holy shit.  A 25" color TV cost $500 in 1979, or over $1500 adjusted for inflation.  I suppose that seems about right, but still, yikes.

It's times like these that I wish I could find CdM's hysterics over the Supreme Court ruling about per se price-arrangements in consumer items.  I distinctly recall him saying that TVs would be many thousands of dollars or somesuch, and he wasn't the only one freaking out.

Price-fixing gouging motherfuckers

[Admiral Yi]

The appeal of the Sear's catalogue diminished quite a bit when they started printing lingerie ads in newspapers.

[derspiess]

The appeal of the Sear's catalogue diminished quite a bit when they started printing lingerie ads in newspapers.

I remember discovering the lingerie section of department store catalogs when I was in third grade.  I still started at the toy section like Seedy, but made sure to hit lingerie before I closed it up.

[Ed Anger]

Service Merchandise was my poison.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/decline-and-fall/thrift-store-sightings/attachment/service-merchandise-catalog-intellivison-ad/

[Ed Anger]

Watching the Gen Xers get old is sad. 

You will enjoy it mister, or else.

[derspiess]

Service Merchandise was my poison.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/decline-and-fall/thrift-store-sightings/attachment/service-merchandise-catalog-intellivison-ad/

I bought my first gun there

[Ed Anger]

I bought my 5 1/4" disks there for my rampant C-64 piracy.

[derspiess]

I bought my 5 1/4" disks there for my rampant C-64 piracy.

Auto-Nibbler FTW

[Ed Anger]

I bought my 5 1/4" disks there for my rampant C-64 piracy.

Auto-Nibbler FTW

PARAMETERS.

Or nibblers if the easy stuff didn't work. 

[derspiess]

Btw, $269 for an Intellivision in 1980 is $755 in 2012 dollars.  Games were about $30 apiece, which equates to $84.22 today.  Yowza, no wonder dad always bitched about how expensive that stuff was.