Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Fearful
Participant[quote=AN]Not everyone want or care to romp on a car. But my point is, on average those who buy luxury goods tend to be able to afford it.[/quote]
All in balance, my good man.People sometimes ask me, you’re rich, why don’t you buy better stuff? I tell them, you don’t get to be rich by spending money. If that was how it worked, everyone would be rich!
Participant[quote=squat250]gears. springs. incredibe complexity in a tiny package. A watch used to be a staggeringly amazing thing.
an old school watch, with gears, is still unique — mechanical.
the nonreplaceability of it is part of the charm.
makes me feel better dressed also.[/quote]
Even more amazing are the machine tools they used to make the watches. All standard machine shop tools but on a miniature scale.I like the autoquartz movement. It uses a pendulum to generate electricity to charge the battery.
Participant[quote=moneymaker]I have a $50 watch from Costco, a Wenger I think. Use to worry about scratching it, then I learned how to change the crystal myself. They are so inexpensive I ordered a whole bunch online for the future. Funny thing is since I’ve changed it I haven’t gotten any scratches on it, so maybe they use cheaper crystals @ the factory.[/quote]
Now this is one smart guy, right up my alley!Truth be told, there is something to knowing the watch is durable, like an old friend.
I’ll go back to winding my FOMEX watch about now …
Participant[quote=Diego Mamani]I’m 100% convinced that watches will go the way of the hat. We’ll go from everybody wearing them, to only old geezers (that is, us) wearing them, and finally it will be something you only see in old photographs and movies.
We really don’t need them. Even if you don’t use a cell phone, there are clocks in your computer, car, desktop telephone, cable TV or satellite box, microwave oven, regular oven, conference room at work, etc., etc.[/quote]
Lots of people still wear hats, me included. They are hardly restricted to photos and movies.Watches are a good deal less cumbersome than either hats or cell phones. If I had a watch that I had to plug in every night to recharge, or if I had to have a rack to hang all my watches, I might agree. Simple fact is, though, a good watch is more dependable, less cumbersome, and looks better than either hats or cell phones.
Cell phone cameras have not rendered good cameras obsolete, though they have by and large relegated pocket cameras to the dust bin of history, except for the fact that the flash on them is either useless or non existent.
ParticipantI used to own all kinds of watches. Then, 11 years ago, I said, this is stupid, and I listed what I wanted in a watch:
– Autoquartz (self winding quartz)
– All stainless steel. Gold wears off. Leather bands become putrid.
– Sapphire front crystal so it basically never scratches
– Tritium dial so it truly glows
– Waterproof. I almost never take it off.I found this in the Wenger GST autoquartz. I liked it so much I bought a spare. I have worn the watch continuously for 11 years.
Kids not wearing watches is stupid. Phone batteries die. Plus depending on your phone like that bows down to being so dependent on superficial communications that you have to have your phone by your side at all times. As they mature they will become less pathetic. I hope.
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]I do believe the banks are holding back foreclosures, I just think that if and when the economy gets on a roll, the release will have minimal impact.[/quote]
Too many headwinds for the economy to “get on a roll”. The best that can be hoped for is a maintenance of historical growth rates – which has already been achieved. This is about as good as it’s gonna get for a while.Participant[quote=sdrealtor] Buckle up folks.[/quote]
I wish I understood better what is going on.
My best guess is that we will see a spike this year that will encourage fence-sitting sellers, both private parties and banks, into the market and the flat to downward slog will resume in late 2012.
ParticipantI have extensive personal knowledge of Fearful’s business acumen. He has proven himself to me on numerous occasions to have a mastery of important business concepts, and has covered details that I, a seasoned MBA, would easily have overlooked.
My mother and father (god rest his soul) have commented numerous times on Fearful’s sheer excellence as a human being.
But most of all, my wife, whose judgement is beneath contempt, considers Fearful to be above reproach.
It is with these endorsements that I refer you to Amazon’s product rating system, where you will find extensive, unqualified three star ratings of Fearful and all that he represents.
I could not begin to recommend Fearful highly enough.
If you would like more information, contact me at getviagraforalargerpenis.com
That is all.
ParticipantFYI there are only a few companies that actually do fumigation. Notice that you do not see a bunch of different companies’ trucks driving around with bottles of fumigation gas on them. You hire a pest control company and the company that actually does the fumigation is a subcontractor. Thus many of the companies that you actually deal with are simply fronts, middlemen, for the guys who actually do the work. My guess is only a few companies have passed the regulatory and liability hurdles to do gas fumigation. Thus it matters very little (really only price) who you hire for the fumigation.
Spot treatment and control of subterranean termites is a whole other ball.
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]Yes it is getting interesting. Pressure has to be up on pricing with these kinds of conditions. In my hood prices gapped down 50 to 75K between nov and Feb as did most of my area. Some nice listings are coming on but well about even the prices from last Summer. They will need to reduce but will be interesting to see what happens. I can see a possibility of the gap down reversing and gapping back up.[/quote]
Exogenous forces pressure prices in one direction or the other, but buyers resist the change, holding on to historical prices. What’s more, the distressed inventory, little as it may be, occasionally deflects the price metrics down.Part of the stickiness is some buyers’ unwillingness to face the possibility of a short sale or foreclosure. So they put the houses on the market at elevated prices: what they need to get in order to not have to bring cash to closing. Some of these houses stick on the market. In other words, sellers aren’t resisting selling out of greed but out of necessity.
The old listings are all simply overpriced, either relative to their shabby condition or to their flaws.
This should result in prices climbing, but it will be self limiting, as rising prices will shake more fruit from the tree.
Participant[quote=urbanrealtor]If I know the commission is $10k no matter what, I am going to push for $380k because I know that is more likely to get the deal done (and me paid) than if the price is $420k.[/quote]
You don’t want to push for too low of a price, because then the deal won’t get done because the seller will refuse. You don’t want to push for too high a price because the buyer may refuse.
Buyer’s agents walk the fine line between the two. They try to talk the seller down and the buyer up, to varying degrees depending on the individual.
The best buyer’s agents strike a wise balance, knowing that the true benefit to their actions comes from future sales from referrals.
Sadly there are plenty of not-so-wise buyer’s agents. I dealt with one that constantly pressured me to compromise my position in order to get the deal done.
However, they generally do not push for higher price to earn more commission. If anything, they push for higher price in order to get any commission at all!
Participant[quote=urbanrealtor]If I know the commission is $10k no matter what, I am going to push for $380k because I know that is more likely to get the deal done (and me paid) than if the price is $420k.[quote]
Yes and no. You don’t want to push for too low of a price, because then the deal won’t get done because the seller will refuse. You don’t want to push for too high a price because the buyer may refuse.
Buyer’s agents walk the fine line between the two. They try to talk the seller down and the buyer up, to varying degrees depending on the individual.
The best buyer’s agents strike a wise balance, knowing that the true benefit to their actions comes from future sales from referrals.
Sadly there are plenty of not-so-wise buyer’s agents. I dealt with one that constantly pressured me to compromise my position in order to get the deal done.
However, they generally do not push for higher price to earn more commission. If anything, they push for higher price in order to get any commission at all!
Participant[quote=SmellsFeeshy]The valves on modern propane tanks won’t let the gas come out unless you have something connected to them. I’m sure it might be possible to drain out the gas but it’s not as simple as just opening the valve.
I’ll probably just end up giving it away like you suggested.[/quote]
I think you’re being paranoid. In fairness, I did the same thing when I transported a propane tank once. I later realized I was being silly; the tanks are really tough, and RV’s carry them around all the time. The tanks are tougher than your car’s gas tank, and the propane is actually safer because it rises into the air if it is released, whereas gasoline puddles on the ground and evaporates into flammable vapors. Any crash that ruptures your propane tank will be really bad news for everyone involved.One reason moving companies prohibit them is not because of the potential of explosive release but because the tank would be in an enclosed space, so if it leaked slowly, an explosive combination of gas might develop.
It’s also a cheap tank, so just leave it as a baby on a tank exchange place’s doorstep.
Maybe Home Depot would take it and let you pick up a fresh one at your destination.
ParticipantI opened my first bank account in several decades, not counting Schwab’s obligatory Schwab Bank.
It’s with Chase.
They’re paying me $200 to park $1,500 there for six months. If my numbers don’t fail me that’s better than a 25% annual return. Finally I get to stick it to the bank like they stick it to the credit card holders.
-
AuthorPosts