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It's funny that they thought a $10,000 a week rental made it any more affordable than the $800,000 price tag. The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is

It's funny that they thought a $10,000 a week rental made it any more affordable than the $800,000 price tag. The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
>The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle. The Venn diagram of people who can justify each option to their spouse is not a circle though. They're probably almost doubling the number of potential customers by offering it both ways.
- FabHK 6y ago
  That reminds me of the time my colleague came to work with a nice shiny new Apple laptop (it was a Titanium PowerBook, long time ago), and said "12,000 bucks". We couldn't believe it, until he added "well, I had to buy my wife a new kitchen to get permission to buy it..."
Jestar342 6y ago
$10k to rent for one week in a novelty once-in-a-lifetime Heli-Home? I've seen people spend more on their bachelor party weekends in vegas and they can't even remember what they did. Those same people don't even spend $800k on their house.
- yodon 6y ago
  Those are 1975 dollars they are talking about so roughly $50,000/week or $4M purchase price today.
  - Jestar342 6y ago
    In league with the price to rent/hire a private jet, and the price to own a private jet. There is a big market of people hiring private jets.
  - stronglikedan 6y ago
    > Even a base model would run you around $880,000 in today's money, and a top of the line version was $1.4 million when adjusted for inflation.
peteretep 6y ago
I have spent £10,000 on a one week holiday, and I neither can nor would spend £800,000 on this.
Stevvo 6y ago
Plenty of people will charter a yacht for anywhere from $10000 to a million a week.
- Theodores 6y ago
  Compared to HyperCar from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Pagani, Koennigsegg and others the HeliHome is a bargain. Hypercars didn't exist in 1977 and wealth inequality wasn't what it is today. Maybe Winnebago were just ahead of their time with this product?
  - Stevvo 6y ago
    I don't know. A helicopter of that size today, operating costs are going to be in excess of $10000 an hour. A hypercar is a heck of a lot cheaper than that.
Element_ 6y ago
It says it can sleep 6 people. $1,666 per person per week sounds pretty reasonable compared to other popular vacation options like cruises etc...

It's funny that they thought a $10,000 a week rental made it any more affordable than the $800,000 price tag. The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

>The Venn diagram of people who can afford those is a circle. The Venn diagram of people who can justify each option to their spouse is not a circle though. They're probably almost doubling the number of potential customers by offering it both ways.

FabHK 6y ago
That reminds me of the time my colleague came to work with a nice shiny new Apple laptop (it was a Titanium PowerBook, long time ago), and said "12,000 bucks". We couldn't believe it, until he added "well, I had to buy my wife a new kitchen to get permission to buy it..."

Jestar342 6y ago

$10k to rent for one week in a novelty once-in-a-lifetime Heli-Home? I've seen people spend more on their bachelor party weekends in vegas and they can't even remember what they did. Those same people don't even spend $800k on their house.

yodon 6y ago
Those are 1975 dollars they are talking about so roughly $50,000/week or $4M purchase price today.
- Jestar342 6y ago
  In league with the price to rent/hire a private jet, and the price to own a private jet. There is a big market of people hiring private jets.
- stronglikedan 6y ago
  > Even a base model would run you around $880,000 in today's money, and a top of the line version was $1.4 million when adjusted for inflation.

peteretep 6y ago

I have spent £10,000 on a one week holiday, and I neither can nor would spend £800,000 on this.

Stevvo 6y ago

Plenty of people will charter a yacht for anywhere from $10000 to a million a week.

Theodores 6y ago
Compared to HyperCar from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Pagani, Koennigsegg and others the HeliHome is a bargain. Hypercars didn't exist in 1977 and wealth inequality wasn't what it is today. Maybe Winnebago were just ahead of their time with this product?
- Stevvo 6y ago
  I don't know. A helicopter of that size today, operating costs are going to be in excess of $10000 an hour. A hypercar is a heck of a lot cheaper than that.

Element_ 6y ago

It says it can sleep 6 people. $1,666 per person per week sounds pretty reasonable compared to other popular vacation options like cruises etc...