Comment by ssl-3
4 days ago
I'd like to present a newspaper insert from Circuit City in 1997 that advertised the televisions they offered: https://web.archive.org/web/20261025051358/https://i.ebayimg...
Front page at https://web.archive.org/web/20261025052016/https://i.ebayimg...
A 35-inch Sony TV was $1.4k, or ~$2.9k today.
25-inch GE sets were $219, or ~$458 today.
And the original comment was the "median price of $4k".
Yep. And to be justifiably curt: It's fucking bullshit.
At best, it's deliberately manipulative. At worst, it's a pack of lies.
The median bullshit quotient here is: Festering.