"People are always asking me why I charge so much, but you'll see when it's finished that it's worth it," he promised.
UAL is by no means the only institution which charges so much; I graduated from King's College London this summer, and had to fork out £75 on three guest tickets.
George Colony, the chief executive of Forrester, picked up Mr. McQuivey's point and said Apple was "blowing it" by charging so much.
Lovely as they are, is it necessary to charge so much when, there are many lovely cats who really need homes and are being left to fend for themselves, following their owners being hit by the credit-crunch?
He imagines a 21st century in which people are born "into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die/Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty/Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed/Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes".
As high school seniors narrow their choices for college and parents gingerly peek at the price tags, they're asking themselves: How is it possible that colleges charge so much?
While the line between mixtape and album has been blurred by increasingly polished offerings – think A$AP Rocky's 2011 LiveLoveA$AP and Chance The Rapper's 2013 Acid Rap – can it still be a mixtape if you charge so much for it?
Is Hulu charging so much because it thinks it can get away with a higher subscription fee in Japan or did it have to pay through the nose for international licensing rights and has no other choice?
One thing that was fantastic was the coffee, smooth, rich in flavor – I understand why Peet's was charging so much for it.
"If Google had stayed, Baidu wouldn't have become so strong and it wouldn't be able to charge so much for online advertising," Long says, referring to China's largest online search company, which now holds a 63% share of the market according to analytics firm CNZZ.
