• Somewhiteguy@reddthat.com
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    24 hours ago

    How much money would one presume 5 beers would that it would cover this many beers? Even if you’re buying at a local convenience store or at your local alcohol store this would be around $50? Who walks up to a place, sees an order of what they assume is 5 beers for that price and thinks, “Yeah that’s a fair price.”

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      23 hours ago

      Counterpoint: a lot of people on ski slopes make enough money to legitimately not even concern themselves with prices

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        17 hours ago

        As long as there’s snow, sure. I’m literally in a ski town right now that got fucked because of this. But don’t worry, climate change is just a hoax…

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      12 hours ago

      I mean you’re probably right but at least for where I live, your numbers are WAY off. Looks like this is four 24 packs, which where I live goes for around $60 on the cheap end. So that’s $240 at a minimum. Assuming they do a bulk discount, maybe an even $200 if it’s cheap beer. On the other extreme, basically any restaurant here charges $9-10 for standard domestic beer, and obviously more for imported or premium. So that’s looking at close to $1,000 for all that. A bundle discount might bring it down to $900 or $850 or something. And then I guess you could go even further and talk about higher end beers which are oftentimes $20 here, or more probably too. So double the previous numbers.

      All that’s to say, even on the low end of $200, that’s still nuts for 5 beers. That would be $40 per beer, which even high end at a specialty restaurant I wouldn’t expect to see that high. Hell, even at a stadium, I think I’ve only seen as high as $25-30 for a single high end beer. I just checked online actually and I could get a 5L keg of Heineken at my local liquor store for $42. And for high end stuff, the most expensive individual beer I could get right now is $34, and that’s for 750ml which is larger than what’s shown in the picture.

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      24 hours ago

      I came here to say there was probably a context clue or three, namely the price.

      I don’t know this fella, but he is either so out of touch with how much things cost that he doesn’t pay even the slightest attention, or (gasp) he is making up a story for the Internet.

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        18 hours ago

        he is making up a story for the Internet.

        Or for his wife. “I swear babe, I thought it was only like, 5 beers! Oh well, now that we paid for it…”

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        23 hours ago

        so out of touch with how much things cost that he doesn’t pay even the slightest attention

        I live in high-end tourist destination and encounter these people all the time.

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      Looks to be about 90 beers and they’re all tall boys. Don’t know where you’re from, but at the cheapest -we’re talking dog piss beer or malt liquor- around here, that’d be at least $150. I imagine the markup at a ski lodge would make it at least double that. Your point still stands. OP gotta be full of shit.

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        22 hours ago

        Less than $5/beer at a ski lodge would be unheard of, so this is like $450+. They thought one beer was $90??

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      21 hours ago
      1. I don’t know where you are that a sled full of beers looks like $50. I don’t think I could even get that many Coors banquets for $50.
      2. Beers at a brewery or stadium can easily be $10-20 each. I wouldn’t be surprised to find similar prices at a ski lodge.
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      24 hours ago

      I mean, going skiing costs an arm and a leg to begin with. $10 for a large beer at the mountain doesn’t sound outrageous to me.

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          Depends on where you go. Vail and Icon own most resorts and are expensive af. But there are more locally owned places where prices are still reasonable as of a month ago.

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          19 hours ago

          Season 1, Episode 3, titled “Bringing Up Buster,” which originally aired on November 16, 2003

          Your results

          £18.46

          What cost £10.00 in 2003 would cost £18.46 in January 2026. Change in value: 84.6% Average annual inflation: 2.70%

          Jesus fucking christ.

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      22 hours ago

      I think the tone the tweeter/Xeeter wrote in implies he’s disappointed, flabagasted, maybe a little angry. This would imply he spent more money than he needed to and got more beer than he wanted, like you assume.

      But for this to occur and him to actually agree to pay, what must’ve happened is:

      • “Hey, can I check how much beer you get in a sled of beer?”
      • "Yes sir, you get 96 beers in the sled of beer
      • “Excellent. I’ll take one sled of beer, please”

      Or maybe it’s a reduction for clearing out stock.