{"id":1028,"date":"2007-02-27T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/02\/27\/paying-for-something-you-dont-use\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:59:13","slug":"paying-for-something-you-dont-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/02\/27\/paying-for-something-you-dont-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying for something you don’t use"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last night, a USA-based company phoned me with a vacation offer. I could stay with my family of five for 7 days in Orlando, Florida and<\/em> go on a 7-day cruise to the Bahamas for only $899.<\/p>\n After enduring their sales pitches for many minutes, they finally asked me when I will I be going. I told them I am not going. They asked me if I thought it was a good deal. I told them I thought it was a good deal for someone who regualrly travels to Orlando or goes on crusises.<\/p>\n It certainly wasn’t a good deal for me. I would have had to spend $900 (not including travel expenses to get to Orlando from Lethbridge) in order to enjoy a vacation I never do. I never go to Orlando, and I never go on cruises.<\/p>\n It’s like going to the grocery and seeing a 1 L jar of sauerkraut on sale for only $5. If I regularly buy sauerkraut for $5 for 500 mL, then this is a good deal. If I never buy sauerkraut, then this is a terrible deal: I have to spend $5 more dollars than I would have spent otherwise.<\/p>\n This vacation package was the same thing. I took having a “manager” come on the phone to try closing the deal before I finally got it through their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, a USA-based company phoned me with a vacation offer. I could stay with my family of five for … Continue reading Paying for something you don’t use<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-lethbridge"],"yoast_head":"\n