..and I ain't even muslim..
Clever and Well-Designed Product eh?
So's a safety pin. Or a hasp for your shed door.
This 'shelf' is the epitome of simplicity; a few cents worth of alloy stock bent to appropriate angle and finished with routine anodising.
Now the pretty-obvious Idea Is worth *something* but ... but not-fucking-Nearly {conservatively: 80+%) of the price charged acolytes
-- who must nearly-all have 0-Sense of what a simple bent metal piece might cost, shipped from China and arrayed like a Pharaoh's mummy
-- in a graphically-correct box costing maybe half what the metal piece cost (bent.. but not yet polished and anodised.)
Thirty-fucking-Dollars USD + Tax + Shipping!?
See.. I could imagine buying this handy oversized-paper-clip, even (in some weak moment of intellectual vacancy) at an expected Steve-is-Precious/Precocious elite price of,
say ... oh.. maybe $13.95? [2-year warranty for $2.50 more.]
Y'know, like say, were I in the candy store with a friend buying a sexier iMac than my own and I Felt I needed to bring home Something-elite? and like that.
But No Way at a price which should -by-Law- demand: the affixing to my derriere at Checkout, a neatly Apple-lettered placard saying not exactly
~~ Kick Me! (but some modrin obliquely-inferential koan.)
See.. were this 'Accessory' prominently displayed on an island for impulse buyers:
I'd feel a moral imperative to be #1 in a coterie of soon-recruited fellow-pickets, equipped with sarcastic and neatly-Apple-lettered SIGNS
urging a boycott until the price was at least Halved.
Eventually.. even in Murica, abject-absurdity Must be noticed Aloud. One might think.
(And it would be more Zappa-like abject off-wall-Fun than a transistor-guitar concert, I betcha!)
Now You, Bman, have every right to assign a much-higher valuation to the convenience of this oversized paper-clip than do I.
And I could.. scrape up the price of 22 or so decent-grade cans of cat food and raise my WD Passport Elite off the deck,
to make space for another stack of unsorted notes, in its present locale. Cats win that one every time.
But tell me, please: didn't >you< feel ... just-a-teensy-bit Ripped-Off ??
-- when you sprung for this doodad? Did you not want to write a brief note (later.. on reflecting what you had done) to -->
Apple Marketing LLC / Div. of Selling the Sizzle and Screw the nonexistent-Bacon, Gmbh?
Just curious.. if I'm the only one (here, anyway) with a similar take on just this One example of, nothing exceeds like excess.
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Yeah.. yeah.. She gets a new i-5 screamer, will never calculate nondenumerable infinities while computing probabilities of a nationwide brownout occurring when Pluto is next in retrograde --and I Don't.