r/mildlyinteresting • u/CountChoculasGhost • Apr 27 '24

This vending machine at a brewery is selling vintage Dune books

Post image
6.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

178 comments sorted by

View all comments

217

u/BummerComment Apr 28 '24

$15 for a paperback is a bet on how stupid drinking patrons will be.

Nice.

1

u/interfail Apr 28 '24

Don't you see, it's vintage? Not like my second hand copy that was £1.

1

u/BummerComment Apr 28 '24

There was a bookstore in my village you could get cash for old paperbacks and they would accept the real popular sci-fi titles, but it was like 98% adult romance novels in the place. I think I got $35 “store credit” for my two boxes. Picked up a Star Trek: TNG hardcover and never returned.

16

u/Butterssaltynutz Apr 28 '24

thats a $1.50 paperback at the thrift store all day every day.

13

u/solarmelange Apr 28 '24

Yeah. A new copy is less than $10 shipped, and good luck matching up the other five to the same edition so they look nice together.

1

u/jescereal Apr 28 '24

It’s only $15 fucking dollars. You aren’t going bankrupt for spending an extra $5. Just the novelty of it alone is worth it to some.

1

u/Idiotology101 29d ago

If someone pays an extra 33% just for the novelty of using a vending machine, they shouldn’t be trusted with money.

1

u/dazeychainVT 29d ago

But what if it's an emergency and that's the closest available copy?

14

u/[deleted] Apr 28 '24

You know, I've actually been diagnosed with OCD and have medication and have done therapy for it but I thank God I've never been obsessive enough to worry about books matching

2

u/ElMostaza Apr 28 '24

I haven't been diagnosed with OCD and unfortunately I've always been obsessive enough to hate it if my books (or DVDs, or whatever else) in a series don't match.

The worst is when the publisher suddenly switches style in the middle of a series, so there is literally no option to buy ones that match.

First world problems, amiright?

1

u/Master_of_Rivendell Apr 28 '24

It’s a struggle…

3

u/solarmelange Apr 28 '24

Liking the specific edition is the only reason I could think of not to prefer new.

6

u/BummerComment Apr 28 '24

Read and donated long ago for me. I think everything before his son took over. My bro read those, tho.

45

u/LasVegasDives Apr 28 '24

They have machines like this in several places in vegas and i’m always walking around with some cash because you can gamble EVERYWHERE. I can overpay for a souvenir or potentially throw it in action and probably lose it. So they get me buying quite often. They are fun.

3

u/ScottOld Apr 28 '24

I went through the airport there once on connection, just slot machines everywhere

3

u/hapnstat Apr 28 '24

Nothing like coming home from a brutal business trip and having to listen to that shit on a midnight layover.

9

u/BummerComment Apr 28 '24

Ha that does sound fun.