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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

      Regardless of total cost?

      Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

      Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

      Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.

      What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.

      I think Edmunds and another organization did a study, and found that on the basic sedan you would be saving something like $8,000 if you leased the car vs purchased it. Buying used was the least expensive option.

      How can that be? you lease for 3 years, now you either turn it in, or buy it as a used car. The lease payments are as high or (often) higher, assuming you don't put a down payment on it. In either case you loose the value of "new" car like any new car driving off the lot, instant loss of 10+% of the car price.

      It's just simple math, add up the payments. I know that @art_of_shred did this last week and the lease was cheaper. The leasers do it for lower cost because they control more factors and know exactly how to do it to make maximum money that is much harder for an individual to do.

      It's pretty standard that leases cost less over the long haul. Unless you drive your car into the ground. Then buying used is cheapest.

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        travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        It's pretty standard that leases cost less over the long haul. Unless you drive your car into the ground. Then buying used is cheapest.

        280,000 miles in 9 years? Yeah, timing chain finally jumped a sprocket. That was highly upsetting, I liked that car.

        We've got a number of printers around here with almost 1,000,000 pages printed. Wish I knew of a decent company that serviced printers around here. (Lots of people operating out of their van and/or basement.)

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        • coliverC
          coliver @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          She's rather pay up front once and then never again.

          Regardless of total cost?

          Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.

          Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.

          Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.

          What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.

          I think Edmunds and another organization did a study, and found that on the basic sedan you would be saving something like $8,000 if you leased the car vs purchased it. Buying used was the least expensive option.

          How can that be? you lease for 3 years, now you either turn it in, or buy it as a used car. The lease payments are as high or (often) higher, assuming you don't put a down payment on it. In either case you loose the value of "new" car like any new car driving off the lot, instant loss of 10+% of the car price.

          It's just simple math, add up the payments. I know that @art_of_shred did this last week and the lease was cheaper. The leasers do it for lower cost because they control more factors and know exactly how to do it to make maximum money that is much harder for an individual to do.

          It's pretty standard that leases cost less over the long haul. Unless you drive your car into the ground. Then buying used is cheapest.

          I buy used... mostly because I tend to drive a crazy amount of miles, we regularly do Maine, Pennsylvania (closer to Pittsburgh), and Florida trips. If I didn't drive so much I would definitely do a lease.

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          • Minion QueenM
            Minion Queen
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            Ugh internet is down and will be for about 2 hours.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @Minion Queen
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              @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Ugh internet is down and will be for about 2 hours.

              ~~ then how are you posting.....

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
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                @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Ugh internet is down and will be for about 2 hours.

                We lost it a few times here in League City last night.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Ugh internet is down and will be for about 2 hours.

                  ~~ then how are you posting.....

                  Magic

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Ugh internet is down and will be for about 2 hours.

                    ~~ then how are you posting.....

                    Magic

                    I knew she had some magic abilities...

                    😄

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                    • Minion QueenM
                      Minion Queen
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                      I AM THE MINION QUEEN!!!!

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                      • Minion QueenM
                        Minion Queen
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                        Oh and Vendors give me awesome gadgets. Working from my IPad Pro with 4g on it.

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                          tiagom @travisdh1
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                          @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          It's pretty standard that leases cost less over the long haul. Unless you drive your car into the ground. Then buying used is cheapest.

                          280,000 miles in 9 years? Yeah, timing chain finally jumped a sprocket. That was highly upsetting, I liked that car.

                          We've got a number of printers around here with almost 1,000,000 pages printed. Wish I knew of a decent company that serviced printers around here. (Lots of people operating out of their van and/or basement.)

                          We have several printer with a million pages printed without any servicing. We just run them until they fail and replace.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Wondering why vendors spend days and days of effort to try to convince you to trial their product and when you agree, they stop responding to you. Um... didn't you just burn like an entire week of effort to talk me into this? Why would you do that then run away when we agreed to look into the product? That's crazy.

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                              thwr @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Wondering why vendors spend days and days of effort to try to convince you to trial their product and when you agree, they stop responding to you. Um... didn't you just burn like an entire week of effort to talk me into this? Why would you do that then run away when we agreed to look into the product? That's crazy.

                              Maybe he just handed that task over to another department?

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @thwr
                                last edited by

                                @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Wondering why vendors spend days and days of effort to try to convince you to trial their product and when you agree, they stop responding to you. Um... didn't you just burn like an entire week of effort to talk me into this? Why would you do that then run away when we agreed to look into the product? That's crazy.

                                Maybe he just handed that task over to another department?

                                Nope, not in this case.

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                                • MattSpellerM
                                  MattSpeller @nadnerB
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                                  @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Women's Rugby Bronze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                  Yahoo!!!!!!!

                                  Our Women's team got the Gold 😉 :first_place: 🚺 👍
                                  Nyah nyah nyaaaaaaaaaah 😛

                                  Your ladies played hard bud, you should be proud! The gold medal game vs NZ was brutal

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
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                                    Maybe he realized you would rip the product apart and didn't want you to trial it after second though.

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                                    • RojoLocoR
                                      RojoLoco @MattSpeller
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                                      @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Women's Rugby Bronze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Yahoo!!!!!!!

                                      Our Women's team got the Gold 😉 :first_place: 🚺 👍
                                      Nyah nyah nyaaaaaaaaaah 😛

                                      Your ladies played hard bud, you should be proud! The gold medal game vs NZ was brutal

                                      The toughest event in the Rio olympics is "not catching a deadly, communicable disease".

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender
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                                        I do put on a lot of miles. 4.5 year old car with 90K. This isn't SUPER high by any means, I know people who drive 5K a month, but for a lease, 20K miles/year would be expensive.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          I do put on a lot of miles. 4.5 year old car with 90K. This isn't SUPER high by any means, I know people who drive 5K a month, but for a lease, 20K miles/year would be expensive.

                                          At 20K a year, owning new is expensive, too. Your car depreciates much faster.

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                                          • Minion QueenM
                                            Minion Queen @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            I do put on a lot of miles. 4.5 year old car with 90K. This isn't SUPER high by any means, I know people who drive 5K a month, but for a lease, 20K miles/year would be expensive.

                                            Leases don't work for everyone. We only have a lease on our play only drive in the summer car. My car that we have put about 9K on in 2 or 3 months is an outright buy. My one trip to TX each year is like 3k miles alone.

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