Some of the examples here strike me as wrong. For example: being forced between a $100 trip and a $50 trip, both of which are prepaid, if both can't be done be

Some of the examples here strike me as wrong. For example: being forced between a $100 trip and a $50 trip, both of which are prepaid, if both can't be done because they are on same day. It's not a fallacy at all to choose the $100 one - even if we are not sure in which way exactly, we are still living in a free market so if the cost was 2x without any beneficial differences, it wouldn't sustain itself - so that trip is likely to be better in some way. Not dropping out of a paid program with a lower success rate in favour of a free one with a higher success rate is a good thing: it very likely means that a free one is a cheap, bs thing that gives no real knowledge (certainly they won't teach you better for free, so if the pass rate is higher it only means that exams are simpler to please everyone). Plus, some time is already lost on the paid program, and time is money.