Similar to gun buyers complaining about prices and transfer costs- no concept of the work behind the scenes.

Truth be spoken!!!!

A lot of people simply do not understand the concept of a fair profit. Oddly, they're usually the folks that spend $89 on a pair of jeans with a production cost of around $15, or brand name shoes for $200 with a similar cost. But they think you should make $15/hr working on their project.

I don't have a problem with people making a fair wage, but jeeze. BTW I get a pair of pants and shoes for less than $50.

I know you're not ragging on them. Water heater costs have gone up in the recent years, so that's one reason for the cost. You can find plumbers that'll do a quick tank swap for under $1,000, or bid the job based on the actual work involved. They're out there. But the guys that'll charge, say, a flat $1200 or something, I've known a few plumbers that have that, or something close to it, as kind of a menu price. That covers them for nearly all the installs, from the ones that are easy plug-and-plays, to the ones that need to be put on a stand, put in a pan, have the T&P drain re-routed, have some 2x4's put on the wall and have earthquake straps installed, expansion tank installed, etc. The easy installs make up some slack for the harder installs.

And yeah, anybody that tells you the warranty is only covered with professional install is full of it. I've done warranty exchanges on heaters of all kinds installed by people of all kinds. The big brands, Rheem, AO Smith/State, and Bradford White (though less so for BW) are well aware that their heaters are installed by average joe's every day. They know better.

New fridge and freezer have their compressors on the top of the unit. Our old ones had their compressors on the bottom. So the appliance guys come in to install the new units and the cords coming out of the top of the units won’t reach the lower outlet location. And the goddamn factory says if you put on a longer cord it will void the warranty. So I had to move both outlets up 7 feet. Who is the hell has outlets 84” off the floor for their fridge and freezer? Assholes.

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And here come the increases.

Just on the Radio.

520 and other pay to go tolls are going up.

Less traffic = higher cost per user

You'd think it'd be less wear and tear as well, thus, lower costs, but they don't look at it that way. They see that they made X$, and anything less than X$ is a loss.

Stop trying to justify it with simple logic --- we want to be pissed about it.... rabble rabble rabble

Ask K-mart how it worked out for them when they were getting less traffic and raised the prices to make more profit from each customer...

I'm honestly not surprised. It also worries me that they eventually want to add more tolls elsewhere.

Man I gotta quit listening to KVI

Constantine is giving the Convention Center 100 million dollars for relief funds.... RE: no conventions.

And

Wilbur just had some guy on that watches what the Wa DOR is doing and what they're taxing. He is that saying that they're looking at what they're now calling the Privilege Tax.

This tax is one that people that used to commute to work and are now working from home will pay because they're no longer using roads, HOV Lanes, buses, Bridges and Gasoline.

Holy Crap..........

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Oh and for me the Olympics are DONE.

If Ice Dancing wasnt bad enough...

(Before you get all twisted about your favorite sport...how the f do they judge Ice Dancing.)

Soooooooooooooo, How about Break Dancing as a sport?

Again a TOTALLY Subjective 'sport'.

And a "Sport"?

Really?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/o ... 849970001/

Uuhhh.... Judgilishously

Harbor freight seems to be following that same model...