Original covers online: $96. This set: $170. It is hard to justify spending that much for something we already have, or could get much cheaper with the normal covers.
The question is this: will my children and their children take as much pleasure in owning the limited edition alternate cover slipcase set as I will? I hope so because it's coming out of their college fund.
Well, $170 for the set...
Let's see. You go to classes for 8 months of the year and each of your five classes has 80 hours. For 650 hours of class time per year.
At the current rate of tuition in a might be $6000-$7000, unless they're going someplace prestigious. That's roughly a cost of $10/hour.
A $170 gift set is 170hours of schooling. That's just over a week of classes out of their entire 32 months of schooling, or 0.65% of their entire tuition for a four year bachelor's degree.
And that's assuming your kids are going to school right away, because that cost is going up faster than inflation.
If the set is a meaningful dip into the college fund, you really need to start investing more...