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> How do you deal with the rest of the consumer universe? I'm betting you get along just fine. Yes, because I couldn't care less. I do care about my laptop, th
by nkkollaw 10y ago
> How do you deal with the rest of the consumer universe? I'm betting you get along just fine.
Yes, because I couldn't care less. I do care about my laptop, though. If anything because it's 1,500 or more.
- komali2 10y agoSo, since you care, doing research to get the right one doesn't seem unreasonable at all to me. I put in a solid hour of research at least before buying a new pair of boots. It took me many hours over many days to choose a camera. Took me weeks to build my PC. Each of those products I put in an amount of research that's at least somehow correlated with the price I paid for them (boots -> 100$ -> camera 600$ -> PC $1300)
- srssays 10y agoThey are running a business. Presumably they want people to buy things. Making potential customers do research because the product line is opaque is just throwing away good leads.
- komali2 10y agoPresumably they would want to sell you the lowest-cost-to-manufacture product for the highest price. So, the more you know about the product, the worse for them, because it removes an opportunity to obfuscate. So, yea, research is a bit tricky, but that's good because the reason it's tricky is because you aren't depending on the company to tell you the real value of their product.
- vacri 10y agoThe idea of researching something that you care about... annoys you?
- nkkollaw 10y agoResearching doesn't annoy me. What annoy me are the people that are supposed to make researching easy (for their own good) but make it a lot harder than it should be.