"WHAT?! Okay, let me get this straight, not only did I pay your goddamn tuition, that allowed you to sell something actually useful in the first place, and not only are you selling this new item that you learned how to sell, which, I think I really need to stress, I PAID FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE, but it's actually worth SEVEN times your college tuition which, I can't possibly stress enough, I PAID FOR. And bear in mind, it's ONLY seven times as much because I died a couple of times, this shit is normally TEN times the amount I paid to send you to school."
Eda: I'll give you ten snails.
Tibbles: Add two more zeros and it's a deal.
Eda: A thousand snails? What kind of game are you playing?
Tibbles: Capitalism. Where everyone wins... except you.
Tibbles: Add two more zeros and it's a deal.
Eda: A thousand snails? What kind of game are you playing?
Tibbles: Capitalism. Where everyone wins... except you.
"Look, all I know is, I keep making up the most ridiculous price I can think of, and you keep payin' it! So I ask you, who's the foo'?"
— Bosco, Sam & Max: Freelance Police
There's some shop with items I can't afford.
So grind for money, you won't be bored!
So grind for money, you won't be bored!
— Scott The Woz, "Why Don't You Play Them", You're Not an RPG Guy
"9,000,000 zenny! I know it's one of the final upgrades to the Shining Laser, one of the strongest weapons in the game, but sti— 9,000,000 zenny?! Do you know how many of those gold birds I gotta farm just to reach half of that shit?! Uh-uh, no. Some of that money is being used for something else; Tron was right! I'm privy to your hustle and bustle, Roll. I see the way you look at me, giving me that side eye like a cat that just shat on the floor. Probably thinks I'm a gullible loser! You're right, but fuck. I-I make you breakfast, and shit..."
— SomecallmeJohnny on Roll Caskett in Mega Man Legends 2
"We got the for-profit mini-bar, the for-profit toilet, the machine that charges you to pay to use the toilet and the mini-bar..."
— Lt. Jr. Grade Brad Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"
Executive: That Shipment of imported Spices will be in your grocery stores by morning.
Shere Khan: Are we the only stores offering Nutmeg?
Executive: Why, yes sir.
Shere Khan: Good. Raise the price Twenty-Five Cents a tin.
Executive: But sir, won't the consumers be upset over the-
Shere Khan: Yes, but they'll pay anyway.
Shere Khan: Are we the only stores offering Nutmeg?
Executive: Why, yes sir.
Shere Khan: Good. Raise the price Twenty-Five Cents a tin.
Executive: But sir, won't the consumers be upset over the-
Shere Khan: Yes, but they'll pay anyway.
— TaleSpin
