[speaker001:] okay well have you bought anything recently and uh if so do you find it to your liking do you think it's worth the money
[speaker002:] I bought I haven't returned it but I bought a I went down to San Marcos to the Coach Store and bought a Coach handbag
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I've had it now for two months and I have owned Coach products before that's why I love them so much and uh I am going to have to take this back to have it repaired after two months I am so peeved
[speaker001:] oh really yeah I can imagine
[speaker002:] I I think it's
[speaker001:] because they're not cheap
[speaker002:] no they're not not even at twenty five percent off so um I just uh and I've owned many before I'm just really not a bit happy with it I don't know if they've gotten too big or too popular or or what but you expect when you
[speaker001:] well I know that in going out and and looking at clothes uh even going to expensive stores the clothes look to me so sleazy any more I don't know whether it's the type of materials they're using
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] is it you know is it supposed to be you know crepe or what and or if it's a case now I've seen Dillard's in an area
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and they hadn't even they'd hung the clothes out but they hadn't even pressed them so they didn't look good to begin with and uh you know and they looked cheap and they were you know they weren't cheap they were hundred and thirty nine hundred hundred and fifty
[speaker002:] I saw that um-hum
[speaker001:] you know you don't buy find cheap dresses any more even at Penney's
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] especially at Penney's they've upgraded considerably
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] and uh the only thing that I know that we have uh uh televisions
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] we have have gotten real good televisions we have had real good luck with televisions and I just wanna I think that their I think their quality is better
[speaker002:] but to see you can buy you could you could you pay the same price for a new television as you do for a new suit a man's suit you know
[speaker001:] well that's true that's true that's true you do you you can buy a portable cheaper than you can buy a man's suit
[speaker002:] oh you exactly I was uh I had I bought something the other day and I thought well I've been wanting this new whatever and I did this this is my new brand I know what it was I was wanting this new television and this is this is my new TV and it was like three pairs of shoes and a you know and I've gone to the outlet to buy the shoes so so
[speaker001:] I know well I know that uh our son for Christmas we usually for Christmas we will give him a suit and we try to you know stay around two hundred and something on them we you can't find a suit any more for two hundred and something
[speaker002:] um-hum huh even even at uh the Men's Warehouse and things like that
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum you know I could you know for what some of the suits cost they had just moved into a new house I could buy them a a small new refrigerator almost as cheap as what the suits are
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] and that's utterly ridiculous clothing has just gotten totally out of sight and I hate to spend you know a hundred and fifty dollars for a dress that's made in Taiwan
[speaker002:] that the you have to pay five dollars to have cleaned every two times you wear it or something and
[speaker001:] yes yes yes very definitely so uh
[speaker002:] I just
[speaker001:] you know I I other than the TV's uh TV's I I do think here are made pretty good uh but I don't think cars are made that well any more
[speaker002:] hum I am real happy with my car
[speaker001:] now what is it what car do you a Ford
[speaker002:] a Ford yeah I I think everything's it's oh four and a half years old and everything works on it and nothing's fallen off or broken I know friends with Chryslers that haven't had that luck and
[speaker001:] oh that's good
[speaker002:] Toyotas that haven't had that luck and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh no I think I think you're right the electronics seem to be of decent quality
[speaker001:] um-hum I don't know whether competition is so stiff between Japan and and the US or I don't know what it is but you know the electronics seem to be you know pretty good value for their money
[speaker002:] and going down in price too
[speaker001:] yes yes definitely because I know the price of the big screen TV's you know they're going down you know compared to what they were three years ago
[speaker002:] oh and I bought a little camera about six years ago that I just thought was the the bee's knees or whatever it just I mean just wonderful and now I can get it for fifty dollars less the same model and for the same price I can get one that does a lot more
[speaker001:] same model um-hum um-hum the only thing I'm not seeing going go down that much is the camcorders the video tape recorders things
[speaker002:] oh well not a lot no
[speaker001:] uh uh they've gone down a little bit we just bought one we kept thinking they would get much cheaper you know like somewhere around five or six hundred dollars but they're still right up there around nine eight or nine hundred dollars
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker001:] you know which kind of surprised me because the how long have they been out now almost ten years
[speaker002:] oh yeah my brother has an old one
[speaker001:] you know uh-huh and uh so uh
[speaker002:] they've gotten smaller though and
[speaker001:] that's true and maybe that's what it is maybe they're just coming you know they're constantly working on them and so therefore they keep changing and they don't have any reason yet to