I posted this in the wrong forum before, hopefully someone deletes it.

I need to have this program display rental rates in a listbox when a button is pressed, and then allow the user to select which item they want to rent and if it's for a full day or a half day. When you click the "bill" button it should automatically enter a $30 deposit as well as the item you rented, and how much it is based on a full or half day rental.

For now, is it alright for me to just hard code the rental rates into the first listbox or must I have them be read from a text file? I don't like doing that much but I'm not sure if I can then have the bill reflect the choices that are picked without having it read them from a file. Is it still fairly easy to get the bill totaled up this way, by using if statements or maybe the case statements? I haven't written the function for determining the bill yet. Here is my sample code for the first listbox.

Code:
  Private Sub btnDisplay_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnDisplay.Click

        With lstRates.Items
            .Add("Price of Equipment    " & "Half-day    " & "Full-Day")
            .Add("1. " & "Rug cleaner        " & "$16.00      " & "$24.00")
            .Add("2. " & "Lawn mower         " & "$12.00      " & "$18.00")
            .Add("3. " & "Paint sprayer      " & "$20.00      " & "$30.00")

        End With
    End Sub
End Class
And this is the way the program looks when it is run just so you can get a better idea what I'm talking about.