Seventeen hours a day of what seem like stratospheric prices that we really shouldn't deal on but which then sell out in an hour.

Compared with the stratospheric prices for Bordeaux, these wines sell for $144 to $200 a case.

He said he would not have to worry about paying stratospheric prices in his university-owned apartment.

In the high-end market, with buyers willing to pay stratospheric prices, boards for exclusive buildings demand high net worth.

The elaborate vetting procedures and stratospheric prices are ways of creating artificial scarcity.

But high-end labels with stratospheric prices are by no means everybody's grail.

But given the stratospheric prices of Manhattan real estate, he added:

The masterpieces that are being bid up at auction to stratospheric prices were created in Europe, not America.

I wonder how much all this frippery adds to the stratospheric price of a meal.

Some buyers might be able to finance a move up but can't stomach the bidding wars and the stratospheric prices that confront them.