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Friday Poll: Where do you draw the line on luxury?

by Leslie Katz
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News.com Poll

Going glitzy
Where do you draw the line on luxury?

Glass speakers ($168,000)
100-inch display ($40,000)
Bed from aircraft parts ($35,000)
Solid-gold USB drive ($599)
Give me a solid-gold customized bed with built-in glass speakers any day
Dude, a 99 cent iPhone app is a luxury for me



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Gold USB drive (Credit: Super Talent)

This week, as word came that November job cuts represented the biggest one-month decline in more than 30 years, we also brought you news of some serious gadget glitz.

Our most recent luxury reportage focused on items including $168,000 glass speakers, swank gold speakers, a $40,000 100-inch display, and a rare flying car (up for auction for $3.5 million) that will probably never hit the clouds, but may impress your friends. It appears some gadget makers just aren't reading those Labor Department memos.

So bearing in mind that we all have different budgets and priorities, here's what we want to know: how much is too much when it comes to luxury?

Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie.
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by inachu December 5, 2008 1:44 PM PST
Gold plated furniture and faucets in the bathroom.
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by Fil0403 December 6, 2008 3:17 AM PST
iPhone (that is, as in an over-expensive, over-hyped, and feature-less gadget that I do not have, need, or want, LOL).
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by PhaseDMA December 6, 2008 5:15 AM PST
I'd like to think that I buy what ever I want. My problem (thank goodness) is I don't buy $100 items typically until I've researched them so much it doesn't seem like a good purchase anymore.

That way only the best items hold up. Like the iPod Touch.
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by Heebee Jeebies December 6, 2008 8:35 AM PST
Of the items listed for the poll the only one that isn't crap is the iPhone app. I just dumped my iPhone for a blackberry and I would still choose that over any of the other items in the poll. How about doing a poll with items a normal person might want but would be consider a luxury at this time.

A new sports car
A nice but modest TV (something in the $2000 to $3000 range)
High end Wolf Appliances

You know things that WE might want instead of things that Ted Turner would buy. We all know that you can't trust his taste just look at the hair of his. It looks like he had a rabid cat on his head looking for mice. Yuck!

Robert
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by Heebee Jeebies December 6, 2008 8:37 AM PST
Damit this would have been a better comment had I got the rich creep right. That should be Donald Trump not poor old Ted.

Robert
by Mikebanks December 6, 2008 1:02 PM PST
There's a line?! (I'll let you know as soon as I collect lthe royalties from my New York Times bestseller.)
--Mike On the Way to the Web
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