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swimbaitWed Jan-05-05 01:22 PM
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#432, "Dateline 20/20 - Lure Prices Drive Fishermen to a Frenz..."


  

          

Dateline 20/20 ... or is that 22-4? Anyway ...This just in:
breaking news ... breaking news ... breaking news ... breaking news

A new fishing lure released by 3:16 Lure Company has anglers up in arms over it's high price. The aptly named Armageddon Swimbait retails for $250, easily eclipsing competitors pricing and approaching the stratospheric prices attained by the original Castaic Hardbait produced in the mid 90's which frequently exceeds $300 on online auction sites such as Ebay.

Some may ask, why are fisherman so distraught over the price of a lure? Anglers discussing this topic online have this to say:

"Making an original plus all the testing and fine tunning takes a ton of time. Then you have to make molds and figure out how to produce them. It also has a very good looking paint job." - Mattlures

"I guess if the people of japan pay 50 bucks for a bag of oranges they'll pay 250 for some plastic.He will never make decent sales here in the states with that type of gouging,even if it is a sick bait.I'll wait til someone copies it for half the price and then i'll get one just like it." - swimbaitking805

"All I have to say it get used to the high prices guys I garuntee this is where the industry is heading...just look at cars. 10 years ago you could buy a stripped down Toyota pick up for under 10K. Now you'll be lucky to find one for under 17K." - magmaster

"This is funny" - woodchucker

Businessmen outside the fishing industry are baffled. We interviewed employees at major electronics retailers and asked them if they have seen anything like this in electronics. Al Pine at Circuit City said, "Well man if people want the stereo with the DVD and the GPS they expect to pay a premium. We don't get a lot of complaints because people can always just buy a cheap deck for 99 bucks. At least we can rape them on the installation."

While getting our receipt checked at Costco we asked TP Wiper if he hears people complaining about prices at Costco. TP's reply was, "Well just look in those baskets there, you see that? That's the 1 ply toilet paper, one our hottest selling items. Sure you could wipe with the good stuff but people are cheap and they don't want to fork out the money just to wipe their ass. They have options and they choose the 1 ply 9 tiems out of 10"

Investigating further, we checked out some commodity items, namely gasoline. At the local 76, our helpful attendant GS Pump said, "Complain about gas prices? You betcha, that's all people want to do. But they're screwed, 87 octane is 87 octane. It's not like you can put propane in your car if it happens to be cheaper!"

In fact the only businessmen... if you can call them that... that we could find who could tell us a similar stories were some crack dealers down in South Central. A Mr. Crak Head (who witheld his real identiy) told us, "Oh you should see 'em when the price of crack goes up. Makes 'em crazy I tell ya. I mean, they could just quit smokin the crack or smoke some weed instead but instead they just get crazy when the price goes up and start wanting to bust heads!".

Our only conclusion we can make here at 20/20 is that fishermen must be so addicted to fishing lures that they act as some sort of drug to them. Barbara Walters has recommended contacting Homeland Security in case rowdy fishermen start robbing banks in droves to finance their lure purchasing habits. Says John Stossel, "Supplies of this Armageddon fishing lure are running dangerously low online and National Security may be threatened as frenzied fishermen upset by the high price go on reckless rampages!"

Editors Note: No animals were harmed during the making of this report ... well except that chicken I ate in my taco at taco bell. Oh yeah, and this is all completely made up except for the first quotes.

  

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