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The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of
Hanzo writes "So, you need a desk. With mood lighting. And a pop-up LCD monitor. It even just so happens you like Space Ghost. Well, for a mere $39,995(USD), you can have exactly what you need. ?" They still aren't selling powerbands or insect musicians, but I figure it's only a matter of time now.
Reconstituted wood with a lick of paint, lcd and fridge! A bargain at only $40k
I suspect that these products are vastly expesive as they have been designed but never prototyped.
The idea is probably to get a certain ammount of orders placed before a design is actually built. Judging by the lack of Real Life(tm) photos as opposed to the CG ones, they aren't getting very many orders.
I mean - would you pay $99,995 so your kid could live in Dexter's bedroom??
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Thanks to the Bush economy, I can barely afford a Meatwad Plush Doll!
I am really amazed at how many people are actually complaining about the price! I really should collect all of your names so that I can have a really fun first of April...
And even if you did get the joke, it is hardly worth the bandwidth. I would complain that /. has gone down the tubes, but hasn't it always been like this?
The more I sift out the bad jokes, and on slashdot there are only bad jokes (more acurately, the same bad jokes repeated endlessly), the more I am merely left with the original post, a reply shouting out that it has been /.'ed, and a follow-up listing the mirror.
I hope that once the US is done "disarming" Iraq they can take a moment to disarm all geeks or their joke rendering portions of their brain.
To be more accurate, I think we may need to do some research as geeks (as represented on slashdot) clearly do not have that portion of the brain to generate jokes, but instead have something severely wrong with some other part of their heads...
-- T.bias
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Saint Turpentine Rock'n'Roll Drugged-Out Monster Music!
It's an advertising ploy.
Neiman-Marcus has been doing this with their Christmas catalogs for years. They always include one or two outrageous gifts. His and her helicopters, anyone? Your own oil derrick? Dinner with Walter Cronkite?
They don't actually want anyone to order the stuff, thats why the price is so ridiculous. If you're willing to pay $40K, they'll probably be willing to hire someone to craft a custom, one-of-a-kind desk, and pocket the change. Same thing with the other gifts.
The idea is to drive traffic to the site, which seems to have worked. People go to see the Powerpuff girls bedroom, but while they're there they see DVD's, t-shirts, games... more mundane stuff. And some of them will buy.
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
You know, it seems like we could just have a standard slashdot meta-tag whose meaning is "well, I could do it more cheaply." We sure hear that refrain a whole bunch.
By your logic, Nude in a Black Armchair (Picasso) is clearly not worth $45M because it only took 50 cents of materials and 2-3 hours of labor to make it.
It's ART. Deal with it.
The fact that you know these things (or I'm assuming you do... I have no idea), tells me that you spend too much time in front of your TV. Put down the Twinkies, and back sloowly away from your TV.