It’s not unnuanced. It’s the correct answer. If you can’t afford to pay cash you can’t afford a quickly depreciating luxury good. And if the financing rate is below the risk free market rate - the lender is subsidizing the deal another way, usually by a higher purchase price. Lenders aren’t in the business for the fun…

Make deal first, tell how your going to py for it at the end of the deal was what I’ve always been taught (and read here before)

Invest in what exactly. 0.8% savings, a highly unpredictable stock market, Iffy bonds? This is profit taking from stocks over the past 10 years. A new car would be a better investment (how sad is that) then my 16yo Outback.

The reason you’ll make more with the investment is that it’s a risk. It may be a low risk, but it’s still a risk. There’s nothing un-silly about preferring to own the car outright and not risking it even if you pay a little more for it vs the outcome of most of your future timelines.

I kinda feel bad for insulting a Transformer movie.

What Transformers movie was that from?

Meh, what do you expect? Change for the sake of change....

See, that’s why I want a Mitsubishi mirage: I want people to think I have a massive hog

This reads more as a pitch to never buy a Rover vs. a reason to buy the extended.

Honestly, how many Land Rover owners even own their car longer than the standard warranty? 5%? 10%?

I bet they managed to get you to pay for it without even noticing. Finance departments are sly like that.

Buy up as many items of a single product as possible, create a false scarcity, and sell them at a higher price to make a huge profit.

IMO this is all cover for Nvidia severely under-producing. Botting happens at all launches, some are more manageable than others.

I think it’s more about the fraud than anything to do with the hoverboard. He just drew a lot of attention that made some people look a little deeper and find illegal activities.

So......Let me just say, I LOVE PHEVs. I think that anyone looking for a new car should consider one over a hybrid or EV. A typical person can drive all week long, charge at night, and never burn a drop of gas, meanwhile, they always have a working car for long trips, power outages/natural disasters, and those nights…

FYI if you were following the nvidia subreddit/forums,  someone made a bot to autobid every scalper to insane prices with no intention of paying, in order to screw them over.

Will the bidder actually go through with the purchase though?

Exactly.

You’re missing the point: OP was saying that people need to get a little perspective if they’re somehow butthurt over such a mundane problem when so many others are struggling to make ends meet. Nobody’s saying you shouldn’t be able buy a console if you want; just that there are too many people making a massive deal…