Oh....my bad.
Just give me another year, I'll make sure, in the midst of managing my finances... in the midst of budgeting for things like insurance, food, etc, I'll make sure to put aside 3 dollars or so for a year so I can have 40 dollars to spend on Buzzerbeater.
Ugh. Did you not read that I wrote this:
We all understand it's a flat rate.
I was just explaining the point Yuck was making. It's clear that even if you understand it, you don't agree with the logic, so fine.
However, I disagree with your examples of retail products like coats or pants because those items ARE investments because they are designed to last a good amount of time. Yuck used the Starbucks example because you pay 5 bucks for something you're done with in 15 minutes. I'm guessing you wouldn't buy a coat for $150 if it was going to last 15 minutes. Personally I wouldn't even it they lasted one year. Your planning on it lasting a while, but you never really know for sure.But I do know that I'd be a lot more likely to spend $150 on a coat if it will last 3-5 years, than if it will last 1 year. And I'd be more likely to do that because the VALUE is higher. More bang for the buck.
With Buzzerbeater, you KNOW for a fact it will last one year. Thus, it is more reasonable to divide by those 12 months to see what the value is a month. And the point that Yuck is making, that I happen to agree with, is that the VALUE for one year is good.
Now, back to the original topic. TRAINING AHHHHHH!
If for some reason, you still are having trouble following. This fellow here talks about Buzzerbeater being a durable good and some comparison about Starbucks that I made no mention of or did not refute in any way.
My post was exactly.
It's much more plausible that I just pay 40 dollars and be done with it....and at the end of the day, that 40 dollars will be just like any 40 dollars I spent on ANY other durable good.
Fortunately for me, I have enough common sense to realize that things aren't best looked at from the incredibly inane scope of costs per month.
Hey! I bought a winter coat, it was 150 dollars but that's only like 12.50 per month!
Hey I bought a pair of sneakers for 60 dollars. It's only 5 dollars per month! That's nothing.
Where the HELL did I say or refute anything about BB being good value relative to Starbucks?
Oh that's right I didn't. In fact, I found both analogies to be inane and meaningless.
In fact, it's almost as if he didn't even read the part that he mysteriously left out of quoting. I clearly stated that coats, etc, are durable goods...yet he finds it necessary to go on some tangent about how long coats last you. Seriously WTF?
What I DID say, was that you'd have to have borderline SPED IQ and ass-backwards, TV commercial salesman type of logic to quantify flat rates on a per month basis just because it is a durable good. No one does budgeting that way. It's ****ing stupid. I'm not paying 3.50 per month. I'm paying 40 dollars. Period. That's $36.5 that I don't have immediately following the transaction.....there's a DIFFERENCE FOR GOD'S SAKE.
And to be honest, it appears I'm not the one that needs to be reading posts here.
Last edited by Amarestars at 11/4/2011 5:19:45 PM