Apparently my Starman.net signature was over the chara limit

I don't care that someone's selling Lloyd and Jeff, both 11 and 13 respectively, explosives and other dangerous weapons, it's just that the prices are so gosh darned inflated. In Earthbound, the Multi Bottle Rocket costs $2139 and that's about five bottle rockets, right? When I was in 7th grade, I made a bottle rocket for a school project for about 13.25 (counting the sharpies and construction paper used to make it pretty). If we were to do some math here, 2139/13.25 = ~161.43. And 161.43/5 = 32.28.
What does this mean, you ask? Well, this means that the average Earthboundian Bottle Rocket costs 32.28x more than a normal bottle rocket (about 30% of that 13 dollar budget was on getting that blue sharpie, too!).
Having the highest Wisdom/IQ growth in game, Lloyd and/or Jeff would eventually learn that they could make their own bottle rocket with 10 dollars instead of buying five for 2000 dollars, right?