Bumped into a guy on the Appalachian Trail who ranted about his broken tent pole for 20 minutes

He was using a $50 tent from a big box store and said 'I should have just bought the expensive one' but then asked me if I knew where to find a replacement pole for free, so where do you even draw the line with that logic?

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the_riley13d ago

And it's the same thing with everything now, people want top shelf results without paying top shelf prices. They'll drop money on a fancy coffee machine but balk at buying good beans, or spend hours hunting for a free pdf of a book they'd never read anyway. It's like everyone wants the shortcut to quality but refuses to actually invest in it.

adam18613d ago

@the_riley I get what you're saying, but sometimes the cheap stuff is all a person can afford.

jana50913d ago

My cousin once spent $200 on a cheap blender and it died after three smoothies.

abbyhall13d ago

Well, that's $200 worth of very expensive smoothies right there.