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- patbon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+80What about condoms?
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59I guess you've never seen a world where $30 might actually be a meaningful amount of money worth keeping. I hope you never do. But it worries me that you can't imagine delaying a purchase to save money.
$30 can buy a week's worth of decent food, if you know what you're doing. Some people actually need the food more than the game. - Noctem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47For the lazy!
Books
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Kids Toys
Jewelry
Sports Equipment
Timeshares
Cars
Software, Console Games
Office Furniture
Hand Tools - actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47So according to this article I shouldn't buy a wedding ring new? Nothing says "I love you" like someone else's resold jewelery!
- spoier, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Nothing says "I love you" like a piece of overpriced glass-like substance that probably came from somewhere with lots of poverty, child soldiers, and other horrible stuff, yeah.....
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid buddy - nzjake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29"I just turn them inside out and use them again. Recycle brother!"
- thebaconmonster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31$30 can buy a lot more than a weeks worth of food. I could feed myself for a few weeks with that kind of money.
Just don't let it near my gas tank.... - Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26When I think of books, I think of the books you have to buy in college. Definitly not worth buying them new.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Actionscripted said:
"So according to this article I shouldn't buy a wedding ring new? Nothing says "I love you" like someone else's resold jewelery!"
Shhh, she doesn't have to know...
...plus you can spend the rest on a "new" used car, spruce up the office with "new" used furniture and buy "new" toys for the kids, and every console that you missed out on during your childhood. - gothfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21If my wife-to-be was so concerned about the price I paid for the piece of jewelry I would most probably quickly reconsider the whole marriage idea.
"I love you" says "I love you", not some fruit of foreign slave labour, pre-owned or not. - DNABeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21My wife was delighted to receive an engagement ring that was second hand. It turns out it was 80 years old with a history to it rather than some dull factory made piece of crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20someone should tell this lady about cd keys and how they work
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Maybe for the causual gamer deciding between Madden 06 and Madden 07?
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18You've never heard this before? You buy jewelry from a retail jewelry store, you get ripped off. It's not romantic, it's finantic. (If you will.)
If the jewelry comes with initials in it, don't buy it. But otherwise, how will she know? - robwolf100, on 10/12/2007, -20/+36I cant imagine what it must be like to make yourself wait a year for a game to get it 30 bucks cheaper. If you want it, go get it.
- DrVital, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18A lot of marketing dollars have been spent convincing folks that diamonds are valuable. But ask any jewler and you'll learn that once they're sold diamonds have very little resale value. Jewlers won't touch them.
- SP33DFR34K, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Underwear is something you SHOULD defiantly buy new.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Absolutely, plus used college textbooks with well marked notes take a lot of trouble out of it.
I also buy old tests and old homeworks. Many professors are too lazy to come up with new ones year after year. - Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Defiantly? Is that the word your spellchecker went with?
- Chrysalid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I wonder when we are going to get Top Ten List of Top Ten Top Ten Lists here in Digg.
- Archon810, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14If you only knew how many books I've read while taking a dump, you'd probably change your mind...
- kozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is definitely something to think about, I'd rather buy a stone/ring second hand, and then have it remade.
About the children soldiers and poverty etc. I live in South-Africa, and we have a huge diamond and gold industry going here. It one of our greatest assets, that makes our country more prosperous, not less... - TheCookieMaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9we got one like 2 months ago
http://www.digg.com/gadgets/The_Top_Ten_List_Of_Top_Ten_Lists - Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13From article: "Hand tools. Well-made tools with few or no moving parts -- like hammers, wrenches, shovels, hoes, etc. -- can last decades with proper maintenance and are relatively easy to find at yard sales. If you're not going to use a tool frequently, you may be able to rent it or borrow from a friend or neighbor rather than buying something else to clutter up your garage. (Some neighborhoods even run tool-sharing cooperatives.)"
***** that! There's nothing like a new tool, especially allen wrenches. - spoier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I don't buy hardly anything new. Let some other sucker pay for the depreciation. I have lots of computers, gadgets, 2 fast cars, and by sort of saving for a year with a moderately well paying IT job it let me go bum around New Zealand for a whole year. For that, I can live without the "new car smell". I can't believe how much money people waste by not doing any reasearch (ie checking eBay) or being "first adopters" for crap like plasma TVs. I bet the people that payed 10g for their TVs a few years ago feel pretty dumb now.
- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Don't buy them. An old sock will do just fine. Now -that- is saving money!
- Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Unless you're getting it from a vending machine in Japan.
- RegisteredUser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Some people have low attention spans. They'll play a game for a month or two, get bored with it, trade it or sell it, and get a new game. So you really don't have to wait a year afterall.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7hey, the man has a point, anything I buy new, I do so defiantly.
- Jeebugorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6or you could marry a girl that happens to be a geek as well. get yourself a couple of "the one ring" from lord of the rings, spend about $200 on both of them, give the ole "one ring to bind them" speech, and call it a day.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i don't know about cars...
i LIKE the new car smell...eventhough they may give you cancer....
also don't buy office chair used....the cushion is all worn out and flat...who wants to sit on hard plastic for 8 hours a day? - kolywater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5depends on the car, and if it is being replaced with a revampled model. for instance, m3's have a high resale value, as do bmw's in general. the nissan 350z also does well. there are plenty of brands that hold their value quite well.
me? i go with with the 1 year old car with around 12k miles. still smells new, drives well, under warranty and has already depreciated the most (1st year). =) - Ashex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Used Books > New Books, big time.
I made the mistake of buying all the books on my list for a class last year, i never touched any of them. But since i bought them all used, I only lost like 15 bucks (They cost a total of 110, new would have been 250).
In fact, only an idiot buys a new textbook, you use it for what, 3 months? - comradechimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Eh? I buy second hand PC games all the time (plus often sell ones I'm no longer playing on eBay).
- Misos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Didn't you know that chicks digital devices more than they do jewellery these days? You get her a ring of any sort instead of a new iPod she'll be pissed.
- Misos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Insert "digg" between "chicks" and "digital" in my above post. Thanks. =)
- berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7anyone who buys a new car in america is a sucker. it loses value as soon as you drive it off the lot!! in 5 years that $30k vehicle wont be worth $10k on the used market. easily. people are CRAZY!! and we wonder why america is in friggin debt.
- covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@Ashex
"In fact, only an idiot buys a new textbook, you use it for what, 3 months?"
Depends whether you study just to get a piece of paper, or study for the love of learning. I still use many of my university textbooks as references, 7 years after graduating. Never crossed my mind even once that they were a waste of money. - defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Good article. I almost went out to the Apple store to pick up some new in-ear headphones for $40, but found the same thing on ebay for $10. Freshly packaged, but no box. Oh well!
- cjnapolitano, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11don't buy used toilet paper
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what about the top ten, top ten lists that show the top ten things to make top ten lists about...
of course, then we'd need to make top ten lists about those too - mcnugget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm inspired to defiantly buy my underwear new from now on
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5no, its completely different.
In the piracy world, 1 copy of a game is purchased and then multiplied over the internet to sometimes hundreds or thousands of people.
buying a used game means the game was bought new once, resold once or twice and only one copy of the game still exists.
Granted, they don't profit from the resale of the game, but most of the time when people buy used its because A) they can't afford new, or B) they don't think the game is worth the price of new. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm primarily a PC gamer but when I saw a Gamecube smiling at me through my favourite used game store (Gamerama, Yonge + Eglinton, Toronto) glass counter I just had to adopt him! For under $150 with tax I got the system, 4 games, and a memory card. I was apprehensive about the used gamepad but the used system comes with a 6 month in-store warranty so I can just trade in the gamepad if it gets soft too quickly.
This is a great article and I Dugg it with my second hand! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3great, you buy something new and I'll buy it from you when your done with it, sound fair?
- verde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3great logic... So basically, I should feel bad for Ford when I buy a used Mustang, because "not one dollar of [my] money goes to the [car maker]. So effectively it's the same as pirating it."
Wow, and I really wanted that '67 Mustang... but I can't be a pirate by buying it used. That would be wrong. - Jeebugorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3unfortunately, my college seems to get a newer edition of a book or change to another book all-together every quarter.
- nonsequitor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@verde
Someone should lock you up for stealing from Ford. You have cost them a sale through your actions. Why do you hate America? - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WHAT are y'all eating???
$30 lasts you weeks? - taotehue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3a dirty sock, or a clean sock?
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