Since the boxset will cost roughly 400 dollars, and weighs about 10 pounds, let's just round that off to an even 40 dollars a pound.
Let's compare the price of the Sopranos box set by pound to other commodities:
Note: Some of these figures may be off due to the age of some of the sources, so if something looks really wrong, that would be the reason.
Tap Water: approaching $0.00
Steel: ~$0.55
Gasoline (at $4 a gallon and 6lb/gallon): $0.67
Turkey(2005): $0.81
Crude Oil: $0.97
American Pennies: $1.82
Budweiser: $2.27
Ground Beef: $2.50
Maxwell House coffee: ~$4
American Nickels: $4.54
Stephen King's The Stand (Modern Classics Edition): $4.54
2008 Kia Spectra: $5.02
Twix Bars: $7.97
Dunkin Donuts Original Blend coffee: ~$8
Boneless Rib-eye Steak: $8.92
2008 Toyota Prius: $10.02
Smoked Salmon: $18
American Dimes: $20.02
American Quarters: $20.02
Helium: $23.61
Freon: ~$28
Mercury: $31
Sopranos Box Set: $40
Omaha Steaks Bacon-wrapped Filets: $40.44
Uranium: $57
Truffles: $60 to start
2008 Ferrari 599 GTB: $81.30
Kopi Luwak coffee beans: $160
Human Blood(based on US Processing Fee): $171.53
Silver(16 oz pound): $275.84
Kobe Beef: $300
US 1 dollar bills: $454
A Boeing 747-400: $602
Ink Jet printer Ink: ~$700
Saffron: $800
Gold(16 oz pound): $14640
Platinum: $32848
So, do you think The Sopranos is worth how much HBO is selling it for per pound? I guess that is a question you will have to answer for yourself.
Tags:
7 comments:
I like the Sopranos and HBO, but I won't buy the set. I always thought the boxsets were too high from HBO.
Then there's the notion of the way it ended as a series...
I'm faaaar to broke to buy box sets unless they're really priced down. I bought S2 of Lost for around 28€ (instead of the 50€ it started with). Weeds s1 (10x 40min) for 25€.
400€ is way out of my league. Time to burn some dvd's, got all seasons still on my pc..IIRC
That's pretty funny. Now I am going to look up why the hell saffron costs $800.
Semaj: Because HBO is pay tv, they expect that their product should have a premium on whatever medium it is on. Thus the high prices.
Arjan: Europeans get the shaft when it comes to pricing of not just DVD's but CD's, don't they? I remember reading ads in Uncut magazine for cds, and the prices were the same numerical amount as they were here, but in pounds. That is insane.
Megan: Saffron is produced from a very small segment of a particular flower, and thus, requires between 75K-225K flowers to produce a pound of the spice.
You know what I don't get? How can gas ($0.67) be cheaper than crude ($0.97)?
According to this site, 42-gallon barrel of crude yields just over 44 gallons of petroleum products. So how does that math work out?
a new cd overhere costs between 16-22 € (x1,5 for US $). I don't know what the prices are in London..but if what you say is right..I won't buy any cd's across the channel anytime soon.
Paul: Hopefully I did my math right on that one... it did seem to be a little out of whack to me as well.
Arjan: Things may have changed though... my British music mags are from 2001-2, so things could be different now.
Post a Comment