# What Goods or Services Would You Buy That are Not Currently Available? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634 "2008-04-24T02:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/1 "2008-04-24T02:21:35Z")
What would you happpily hand over money to have (or have done for you), that is not available where you live, wildly impractical, far too expensive, or just does not exist. Durian flavored toothpaste, a guy who retrieves your car from the really remote parking lot at work, human size scratching posts, a drive through barber shop. Whatever you think would have a chance at competing for your hard-earned dollar. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/2 "2008-04-24T02:25:26Z")
Ohhh, I have a good one, but I don’t want anyone to steal my business idea! Oh, ok. Tickler. Back, feet, arms, side, face, it all feels soooooo nice. I would pay to get someone to do it, and have almost half seriously contemplated what it would take to start a business like that up. I wonder how hard it would be to keep the perverts away from my ‘tickle parlor’? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/3 "2008-04-24T02:36:39Z")
I would pay someone to cut out all my patterns and fabric for me for clothing projects. I’m working on a [simple knit dress](http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=6748) right now, and it had only eight pieces to cut out. ( It’s a dead easy pattern, but it took me about four hours to cut everything out, because I _hate it._ ( I’ve logged about an hour of sewing time on the dress, and I’m a third of the way done. ) If I were a cutter in a costume shop, I would go shortly mad. So if I could find someone to cut things out for me for a reasonable price (minimum wage?), I would be all over that like wet on water. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/4 "2008-04-24T10:51:16Z")
Burritos. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/5 "2008-04-24T11:26:39Z")
Kentucky Fried Passenger Pigeon? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/6 "2008-04-24T12:13:20Z")
[QUOTE=EmAnJ] Oh, ok. Tickler. Back, feet, arms, side, face, it all feels soooooo nice. I would pay to get someone to do it, and have almost half seriously contemplated what it would take to start a business like that up. [/QUOTE] First reply, and someone stole mine. As an ex of mine said: “I’d never pay someone for sex, but I _would_ pay someone to play with my hair, scratch my back, just generally touch me”. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/7 "2008-04-24T14:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] Burritos. [/QUOTE] Totally. Meat, cheese, AND bean. I’d pay real money for a decent pair of galoshes. Not the boots or foot condoms or rain boots that you can get today. I want the loose-fitting, buckle-up things that we had back in the late 60s. You just can’t find them anymore! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/8 "2008-04-24T14:11:38Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] First reply, and someone stole mine. As an ex of mine said: “I’d never pay someone for sex, but I _would_ pay someone to play with my hair, scratch my back, just generally touch me”. Me too. [/QUOTE] I don’t get why there are no professional back-scratchers. It feels so satisfying, I’d gladly pay a dollar per minute for the service. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/9 "2008-04-24T14:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] Burritos. [/QUOTE] ditto ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/10 "2008-04-24T14:39:05Z")
Longer-living pets. Just buried a ferret buddy we had loved for for 6 1/2 years (cancer of the spleen and liver). The two remaining cats and the remaining ferret seem lost and confused,too, as they didn’t see him die; just saw us leave the house with a live,though weak, buddy and come back with something in a blanket that we cried over before burying it in the flowerbed. My old Ford Ranger has about 5 more good years left and I would like to buy a new one in 2013, but Ford is discontinuing the vehicle post-2009. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/11 "2008-04-24T14:42:05Z")
Fabric with a kind of finish that repelled pet-hair. Or at the very least a some kind of tag that listed if a certain fabric (bedding, clothes, furniture upholstery) attracted or repelled pet hair. I can’t say how ofter I bought bedding that siad it had a “satin finish” only to find out it was a cat hair magnet. Laundry detergent that dissolved pet hair. And, as a recent thread described, a kind of “pod” on airports that allowed the traveller to sleep for a couple hours and safeguard his luggage, but cheaper then a hotel. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/12 "2008-04-24T14:42:18Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] First reply, and someone stole mine. As an ex of mine said: “I’d never pay someone for sex, but I _would_ pay someone to play with my hair, scratch my back, just generally touch me”. Me too. [/QUOTE] My boyfriend and I always joke about hiring the other to do this - since we live 2 hours apart we only get to be together 2 weekends a month or so, and we both love our hair played with, backrubs etc. “You can quit school, move out here and I will pay you to rub my back all day.” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/13 "2008-04-24T15:26:08Z")
Sometimes I’m reading headlines on CNN and thinking “Gee, I really wish I could get this headline [on a t-shirt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=465287)” (Not really, but this is the first time a “sequential thread” has made me laugh) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/14 "2008-04-24T20:49:53Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] …And, as a recent thread described, a kind of “pod” on airports that allowed the traveller to sleep for a couple hours and safeguard his luggage, but cheaper then a hotel. [/QUOTE] Doesn’t Japan have those, but only for men? ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/15 "2008-04-24T21:12:14Z")
Good high quality imported cheese. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/16 "2008-04-24T21:12:45Z")
[Jian Bing](http://www.plateoftheday.com/17/), I’ve yet to find it anywhere in the US. The superhero and I have discussed trying to make it, but what is the tasty brown sauce? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/17 "2008-04-24T21:46:46Z")
I suspect, once the technology gets here, Ivylad will want a holodeck. Me, I want an in home transporter. Zap me to work and back so I don’t have to drive. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/18 "2008-04-24T21:56:13Z")
Off-world Transport. Intensive Psychological Telepathy. No more talking things out for years with a shrink (which I don’t do right now, but have in the past), just dive right in, straight past those mental blocks and so forth, and get to the truth of things. Then map out a program for me to dissolve the knots. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/19 "2008-04-24T21:57:20Z")
I want the human-sized scratching post. Failing that, I would like to be able to hire someone to walk or stand behind me and rub the small of my back all day. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634/20 "2008-04-24T21:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=zenith] Longer-living pets. Just buried a ferret buddy we had loved for for 6 1/2 years (cancer of the spleen and liver). The two remaining cats and the remaining ferret seem lost and confused,too, as they didn’t see him die; just saw us leave the house with a live,though weak, buddy and come back with something in a blanket that we cried over before burying it in the flowerbed. My old Ford Ranger has about 5 more good years left and I would like to buy a new one in 2013, but Ford is discontinuing the vehicle post-2009. [/QUOTE] No kidding - if you could just hit “refresh” on your pets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goods-or-services-would-you-buy-that-are-not-currently-available/446634.md?page=2)