Maybe she needed a laptop today, not three years from now after scrimping and saving? Maybe she wanted one with at least some kind of warranty rather then a 4 year old mac that has nothing but duct tape and a wing and a prayer keeping it together.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Constance Warner <cawar...@his.com> wrote: > Shopping with a budget and a list? I shop with a wing and a prayer. Car > dealers [and other purveyors of big-ticket items] would hate me, because if > something costs more than I can afford [most of the time, BTW] I just don't > buy. The purchase of a Mac laptop [I do have a relatively new one now] is > something that was planned for, and schemed for, for years before I FINALLY > got it. Before that, my laptops were used [including my first Mac laptop, > my beloved $25 clamshell]; one was rescued FROM THE TRASH--I got there > minutes before the cleaning crew would have chucked it into the trash bin on > the cleaning cart. [No, the cleaners--whom I had gotten to know fairly > well--couldn't have used the computer themselves.] > > My point is that Lady Shopright COULD have had a Mac laptop, IF she hadn't > wanted to pay a Wal-Mart discount price for a fancy, premium new machine. > Which is pretty unrealistic--if she had done 5 minutes' worth of research > on the Net, she would have known that. No need for even a pretend visit to > the Apple Store. > > --Constance Warner > > On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: > > Constance I am not sure how you shop but I shop with a budget and a list. >> >> I have a preconceived idea of what I need and want before I go shopping. >> Ever go to a grocery store without a list? How much do you spend without a >> list versus with a list. >> >> When I go shopping for a car I have a budget and a needs list. (4 door, >> automatic (I like clutches but my wife dose not) power seats, power windows >> etc.) >> >> If I did not find a car within my budget I either revise my budget or I >> revise my needs list. >> >> Car dealers love folks like you because they can over sell a car to you >> because you will take what they tell you, you need. >> >> By the way I will not pay more for a foreign car just because it is >> foreign. It better give me a lot more for my buck than a domestic car or I >> am not buying it. >> >> I have owned a couple of foreign cars but European cars not Japanese. (I >> am not prejudiced as I realize that most American cars sold are multi >> national cars. I have just been bitten by repair facilities over charging >> for fixing foreign cars.) >> >> Price is at one point important, but at another point just part of the >> equation. >> >> The point of the Ad (it was not a documentary it is placed as an ad, that >> is like calling these paid advertisements on TV documentaries.) was that you >> could not buy a Mac Notebook for under $1,000.00. That was the main point >> they wanted to make. All sorts of assumptions have been made on what they >> were trying to say. But you know what they say about assumptions. :-) >> >> Stewart >> >> >> At 09:00 AM 3/30/2009, you wrote: >> >>> I still say, that going shopping with preconceived notions and >>> requirements is fundamentally unrealistic. The real world does not >>> organize itself according to our wishes. If she's even thinking of >>> buying a Mac [which from context it's clear that she's NOT] she >>> needs to look at Macs overall--quality, price, everything. If price >>> is the only criterion, well, that's her choice; but if she wants a >>> Mac at an unrealistically low price--well, that's just wishful thinking. >>> >>> Cubic zirconia isn't fake anything; it's real cubic zirconia, and a >>> lot of fun. And an HP isn't a fake computer, but then a Tata Nano >>> isn't a fake car, either. It's just not the same as a Toyota or a >>> Honda, for which one can expect to pay a bit more. >>> >>> --Constance Warner >>> >> >> >> >> Rev. Stewart A. Marshall >> mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net >> Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org >> Ozark, AL SL 82 >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
