SortStack #612 — 2028-02-11
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A US Forever postage stamp $0.78
Forever stamps never expire and stay valid even after rate hikes — buying sheets before an increase is one of America's tiniest investments.
- One month of Netflix's standard ad-free plan $18
Netflix began in 1998 mailing DVDs in red envelopes — it shipped its final disc in 2023 after posting over five billion of them.
- A new Rolex Submariner at retail $10.8K
For years the waiting lists were so long that used Submariners sold above new ones — an inversion almost unheard of in luxury goods.
- A Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup $63K
The F-150 has been America's best-selling vehicle for over four decades — Ford sells one roughly every minute of every day.
- The record bluefin tuna sold at Tokyo's New Year fish auction $3.1M
The 278 kg fish was bought in 2019 by a sushi chain owner known as the 'Tuna King' — the first auction of the year is partly a publicity ritual.
- The International Space Station $150B
Often called the most expensive object ever built, the ISS has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000 and orbits Earth about sixteen times a day.