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It's not necessarily the case that paying more gives you a longer lasting product. You can pay more for a car and actually end up with the exact opposite, for e
by bigDinosaur 4y ago
It's not necessarily the case that paying more gives you a longer lasting product. You can pay more for a car and actually end up with the exact opposite, for example. Expensive often means more capacity for things to go wrong. The one thing that guarantees poor purchasing is thinking rules like 'it costs more, and is thus less likely to break' always, or even mostly, apply.
- akiselev 4y agoThe automotive equivalent to the cheap pair of boots is a beater off craigslist, not a cheaper new car from the dealer. It’s not a choice between a Toyota and an entry level BMW but between a 20 year old gas guzzler that can break down at any time and an eight year old entry level sedan from a used car dealer (or whatever the age cutoff is for used car loans). If you have a good credit score you can put down a few thousand on a down payment and get a Toyota Corolla with 50k miles for $10-15k that is likely to last for another 200k miles without major repair. If you don’t have a good credit score, the most that downpayment will buy you without a loan is a total crapshoot that can break down and total itself at any time.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI'm not really sure why you appear to have been downvoted because your point is fine. I don't entirely disagree with this. If you're in the market for nothing but lemons, and those lemons are essential, you are fairly screwed unless you can get someone else to help you (e.g. family, government).
- Al-Khwarizmi 4y agoThe ability to pay more gives you more choice and thus, in general, the option of buying better products. Of course, you can also use the extra choice to choose wrong.