 There are phone cases out there that offer a rudimentary protection for your device from short drops and scratches in your pocket. Those cost a few bucks. There are phone cases out there that do that, and look kinda cool. I'm partial to the ones that look like Game Boys or NES controllers on the back. Those cost a few bucks more. Moving up in price, we've got ones with enhanced functionality, more durability, built-in card wallets, bottle openers, or multi-tools, you know, everyday stuff. But hold on a second, Linus. I mean, sure, some of those cost over $100, but arguably that's useful stuff. Why is it in this segment? It's not. Today's featured product is the result of my effort to find the lowest utility-to-cost ratio iPhone case I possibly could on Amazon.ca. And so, I present to you the shop-ready, luminous, handcrafted luxury Bling Swarovski Crystal Sparkling Full Glitter Ryan Stone's Back Snap-On Protective Hard Case Cover for iPhone 6S by Playbling. A $250 US dollar iPhone case covered in crystals. Cooler Master's MasterCase Maker 5 features their freeform modular system allowing you to customize, adjust, and upgrade. Make it yours at the link in the video description. So the price is unmistakably over $100, but how do you prove that something is useless or that it's a very poor value? In the case of the $1,000 HDMI cable from the last episode, which you can check out here by the way, I reviewed the manufacturer's claims about the value of the product, like noticeably better sound and video quality, then tested it at very high data rates against a generic cable, and observed that there was not indeed any discernible or measurable difference. Easy. So let's take the same approach here by finding the actual manufacturer's product page, where the price is a still outlandish, but at least significantly lower $235 US dollars. So there are apparently Swarovski crystals, which in case you were wondering means glass in the shape of crystals made by a company in Austria. Apparently Eastern Europeans are good at glass crystal work. Who knew? Nothing to do with usefulness though. Other benefits of this fine product include each crystal being 100% handset by a skilled craftsman. And if there are any women working on them, I'm throwing a fit just saying that it contains over 1,000 crystals and that the adhesive glue is ROHS compliant. Well, I'm not much of a glue expert. Hey, get out! Get out of here! But I did manage to count the crystals and there are indeed over a thousand of them. So full marks there, although none of that has anything to do with usefulness. Okay, it's presented in a premium gift set. This is a little debatable since the packaging is almost as horrible as the gigantic paper warning about never taking the case off once it's installed in case all the rhinestones start falling off. And finally, it is perfect for parties and balls. Again, I'm hardly a leading authority on party going, having never been invited to one, and my attempts to use it on my balls eclipsed all other failures I have ever broadcast on this show. So then given that the manufacturer actually makes no claims whatsoever about the items utility, I don't really have to prove that it's useless. I only have to prove that I can get something equally useless for less. Time for a field trip to the dollar store. Rock on, wow! Everything's a buck 25. Fishing supplies. Shockingly few jewels in the hair accessories department. This has promise. Still no jewels. A million hair bands and no jewels. Starting to lose hope. Damn, I overpaid for my case. Ooh, maybe these are, ooh, those are like gel. Arts and crafts aisle? Oh, we're close. I definitely gotta have some of these. Rock on, I have painstakingly extracted all the hematite beads. Ooh, acrylic crystals. You have got to be kidding me. This looks easier. So there we have it. Everything I need to recreate the functionality of this case for under $50 US. So I need you to evaluate two things for me on a scale out of 10. Number one. Oh my God. Wow. Five out of 10. Five out of 10. Okay, I'll be right back. Six. I give it a one. I think this is like maybe worse. Seven out of 10. Seven out of 10. I give that like a like an eight. Yeah. Five and a half. Zero. So then here's the bottom line. For a fifth of the price and about 40 minutes, you can achieve the same goal of looking like a tool who is in your 20s or 30s and still wants to play princess dress up on the weekend. And you can do this without also looking like you have more money in your wallet than cents in your head. Because remember, there is expensive crap that you can buy if you just have money burning a hole in your pocket that actually retains its value. So maybe look into that so you can look like a baller without also looking like an idiot. 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