In some cases it's because these custom features work only some of the time.

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Your spouse may just agree to spending a pretty penny on one of these decked-out cars because these very features are there with your safety in mind.

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Customers now expect to have the same features as hotels and only pay hostel prices, because of the large number of beds these hostels sometimes hold they are very profitable businesses.

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