[lug] CPU comparisons

[Zan Lynx]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 15:49 -0600, George Sexton wrote:

> Believe it. I would spend 8.7% more to deal with a company that think is 
> more honest.

Ok.  You and I disagree on what honesty is.  For me, if they list an
item at $250 and they sell it to me at $250, it is an honest price.

If I know that I can get it for $50 elsewhere, I may think they are
crazy or greedy, but I don't think they're dishonest.

As a matter of fact, the "value" of an item is SET by how much you can
get someone to pay for it.  You can't say a set of rails is worth $50 if
someone is willing to pay $250 for it.  It's only worth $50 to you,
maybe.  If enough people pay $250 for it, its economic value IS $250.

If I can get someone to pay me a $300/hr consulting fee, it isn't
dishonest even if you're doing exactly the same or better work for $100.

EVERYBODY knows about sales tactics.  The $8 pizza with $2 delivery fee.
The $2.99 used book with $3 shipping.  Buy one get one free coupons.

I'm surprised now that you don't consider $2.99 dishonest since it's
really $3. Plus tax.

*shrug*

We just disagree on defining honesty.  But whatever, it's off topic for
Linux and I have said all my opinions so I'll stop now.

> If someone is trying to mislead me on the price, then I have to ask 
> myself in what other ways are they going to mislead me? The warranty? 
> The on-site repair policy? The quality of the goods?
> 
> If someone is dishonest in one way, they will be dishonest in others. 
> It's just a fact of life.
> 
> One of the lessons that I taught my daughter is that if a person will 
> screw someone else over, you shouldn't have anything to do with them. 
> After all, if they screwed someone else over, why do you think they 
> won't screw you over?
> 
> Note that I didn't quote an obscure moral, religious, or ethical reason 
> to not do business with that person. It's as practical as life gets. 
> Don't deal with dishonest people because, duh, they're dishonest.
> 
> Deal with who you want, but don't expect sympathy when someone cheats you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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