In rec.food.cooking, Richard Periut > wrote:
> wrote:
> > In rec.food.cooking, Richard Periut > wrote:
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> >>Why, cause they are working their
> >>long hours (asses) (both husband, and wife,) to pay for their lame
> >>attempt to live like "kings."
> >
> >
> >>I have a car that I lease (I trade it in every 4 years because I like
> >>having something brand new,)
> >
> >
> > My Irony Meter just hit the peg.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>main reason is the extra protection it offers for my family.
> >
> >
> > That's what they all say.
> >
> >
> >
> >>abolished, I'm planning on buying a car with my Amex card,
> >
> >
> > If the dealer lets you do that, it is only because you overpaid enough
> > already to cover the merchant fee.
> Your generalizations amuse me. You know nothing of who I am, or what I'm
> worth, and you post wantonly. I've purchased medical equipment worth 40K
> with my AMEX. They usually have me call to verify the purchase and ask
> me some questions to confirm ID. Of course, that is way beyond your realm.
Again my irony meter hits the peg. The juxtoposition of "You know
nothing of who I am..." with "...that is way beyond your realm." is
priceless.
When you bought that medical equipment, the purchase price included the
merchant fee the seller had to fork over to Amex. Cars rarely have
enough margin to include such fees, unless, as I said before, you overpay
for the car. Give them sticker price, and they will grab your Amex out
of your hand and ring it up. Give them $500 over cost, and they will
insist on other payment mechanisms.
> I don't lease the Audi to show off to others,
No, you do it because "I like having something brand new", even as you
lambast your neighbors for "their lame attempts to live like 'kings'".
Those who wish to minimize their total cost of ownership buy cars for
cash and keep them past the steep part of the depreciation curve. Those
who wish to live like kings lease cars, every few years, that they
otherswise can't afford.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, so long as those folks don't
look down on their hard-working neighbors and than brag about how thrifty
they are.
I doit because of the
> quality of the car, and the hassle of having it serviced for free, as
> well as the reputation.
We all know that a late-model Audi is a car fit for a king. That is not
in dispute.
--
In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-- Dwight David Eisenhower