A question for the fen.

[kengr]

You are wandering through the dealer room at a medium to large convention (Westercon, Baycon, that sort of thing).

There's a table with a couple of people wearing some pretty good spacesuit outfits, complete with mirrored helmets. Even have "translators" with an appropriately "computer" voice.

They're selling toy radio controlled flying saucers. They zip around nicely, making a humming noise much like the cars in the Jetsons.

They want $50 for them.

What do you do?

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

For $50? I ooh and aah a bit, and then continue my tour of the dealer room. At $20, or even $25, I might buy one for the novelty factor. But there's a limit to what I'm willing to spend for that, and $50 is way over that limit.

OTOH, once I got home, I'd probably go prowling the wholesale shops on Harwin to see if I *could* get one for a reasonable price. (Experience being that once you see something like that at one event, 2 months later they'll be everywhere.)