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Agree, good coolers but I will never spend that unless I was camping or something. Your missing the point on the bucket, the additional 33 bucks is because it says "YETI"....consider yourself officially enlightened.This is what I saw at bass pro shop a few weeks ago. What makes the Yeti bucket worth almost secen times more than the bass pro bucket?
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I assumed the label accounted for the cost difference but have a hard time believing that many consumers would spend that much more money on a 5 gallon bucket branded yeti, especially when they I can get an orange one that says Home Depot on it for $5 And pep boys sometimes includes one For free with the purchase of goods from them. At the same time, I recall seeing a $400 pair of Louie Vuitton (sp?) flip flops that looked a lot like the flip flops Nike sells for under $50, Under armour sells for $30 and my wife gets for free after a pedicure. I can only attribute such behavior to Different strokes for different folks.Agree, good coolers but I will never spend that unless I was camping or something. Your missing the point on the bucket, the additional 33 bucks is because it says "YETI"....consider yourself officially enlightened.
I have a Rec Tec and love itWell towing the boat through Georgia, and liking to smoke food. This is what happens when you stop at Rec Tec. Top pic is unloading it at my house. Towed fine with the extra 500lbs of mostly tongue weight.View attachment 126346View attachment 126347View attachment 126348
That would be the first and last one I ever paid....The “luxury” tax bills for my boat and 2003 waverunner. I’m always disappointed although not surprised to see how little, if any, of this money ia allocated to boating related items.
This year I’m also thinking about all of the CA citizens that bought new boats. I bet many will be surprised when they get their first “luxury” tax bill and even more surprised when they realize they will get one every year they own their boats and CA doesn’t depreciate their values as quickly as the market does.
quick calc: a $70k boat will result is a tax bill of $880.67 @1.2581%tax rate.
You probably have good reason to worry. Why because it is expensive to repair vehicles. For instance I just had new brakes, etc put on my truck at the tune of 2500.00. Now someone might be able to do the work cheaper but that is not the point. If you can't afford the repair you most likely are going to continue to drive your car and hope for the best.I found these two parts in the street in front of my house, they are not from any of my vehicles but make me question more often the road worthiness of the vehicles around me.