1: This girl seems cool.
2: BATTERIES ARE $220 NOW?!?!
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Just paid 350 canuck bucks for an AGM battery for a regular old RAV4.
This world is cruel
I replaced my car battery a few years ago thinking it was just going to be $50. $175 later...
Can confirm, am also RAV4 owner who had to pay $350 for an AGM battery.
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To be fair, they seem to be better than they used to. My car hit 200k not too long ago and still has its original battery. I have no problems with it but I remember having much newer batteries where it was a gamble on cold mornings if it would start. Purely anecdotal though.
My car has 130k and I keep wondering when the battery is going to die, because when I was younger they didn't last this long and I just kinda forgot about it until it occurred to me recently.
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I just paid ~650usd for a new battery for my Toyota. Though I bought an extra expensive one to have good enough amps for starting in -40c and colder.
Fun fact: -40c = -40f
It's a couple of hunks of lead, copper, and sulfuric acid. You got robbed.
You can get AGM or even lion batteries which cost a little more and are a bit more involved but 600 still sounds high.
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Went to check if they were cheaper at Walmart, found they were 70-140 for a normal lead acid battery.
It popped up with an ad asking me to do a free month trial of Walmart+ or what not. I was like why would I want this. And the FIRST line wasn't about free delivery, cheaper gas prices or some shit, it was 25% percent off Burger King daily. (Guessing they say daily so you don't stand outside and give everyone 25% off on the drive thru.). But still... Why the fuck is fast food charging so much that they can afford to throw another 25% to Walmart.
Another reason to love Costco.
Don't ever buy batteries from an auto parts store. Find a hole in the wall hardware store or a rural king or something like that and you'll get them way cheaper
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They were never cheap...
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When you try to hit on someone but your charisma is −5.
Being a shitty warlock is a hard life.
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Wait that’s more expensive per unit than one. Ya gotta throw a dog a bone in bulk.
She’s seems cool tho
This comment has "what English sounds like to non-english speakers" vibes.
The price per battery goes up if you buy in bulk? WTF?
This is probably some US nonsense where the battery was $220 without tax, and the value at the register for the 99 batteries was with tax.
Needless to say: 🤢
Or OP meant to say one was $230 and 99 was $22,000.
I feel the math is wrong but maybe I just don’t know enough about car batteries
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i remember when the same fucking battery was $80
Seriously though, have there been battery advances that warrant that price increase or is it just capitalism rearing its ugly head again?
no. they'll rip you off because you can't go without a battery
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I think it was 5 years ago.
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Thought for sure this was a Dull Men's Club post
-5.6% "discount" lol.
My guess is they had 6% sales tax and she rounded down on the output.
I did something similar in the early '90s, but it was a carved wooden eagle at Busch Gardens. When I hit the sub total button the P.O.S. system for the whole park crashed because it was around a million dollars. lmao
I don't know why this is so funny but I'm cackling like a fool.
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