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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

My guess is they had 6% sales tax and she rounded down on the output.

[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

When you try to hit on someone but your charisma is −5.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

literally me except the hitting on someone part

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Being a shitty warlock is a hard life.

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[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 day ago (34 children)

1: This girl seems cool.

2: BATTERIES ARE $220 NOW?!?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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 add 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Just go to Walmart lol there's always like 100 free ones in the parking lot

Just need a crowbar and you're golden

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Just paid 350 canuck bucks for an AGM battery for a regular old RAV4.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

270k checking in, factory battery

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Thought for sure this was a Dull Men's Club post

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is that with sales tax included?

220 x 99 = 21,780

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

5.6% sales tax?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The price per battery goes up if you buy in bulk? WTF?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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: 🤢

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or OP meant to say one was $230 and 99 was $22,000.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like this train of thought, but 99 x 230 = 22,770

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The unstated premise being that $22,000 is discounted from $22,770 or OP just remembered the first two digits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh yeah, I like this hypothesis

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait that’s more expensive per unit than one. Ya gotta throw a dog a bone in bulk.

She’s seems cool tho

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

As a native english speaker this

Ya gotta they’re a dog a bone at bulk

is just [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I feel the math is wrong but maybe I just don’t know enough about car batteries

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[–] solsangraal 38 points 1 day ago (12 children)

i remember when the same fucking battery was $80

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