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"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> Seth (seth_lermanNOSPAM@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
>> The net cost is what it ended up costing them when all was said and done.
>> You are hung up on "gross cost". You don't pay tax on your gross income,
>> do
>> you? I know I don't. I pay on my (in tax speak) "adjusted gross income"
>> which is the same as "net income". My net cost on my TiVo was $719. I'm
>> not counting the free 6 months of HD-Pack as I didn't subscribe to it
>> before
>> getting the HD unit, nor do I count the free 6 months of HBO for the same
>> reason.
>>
>> Bottom line, my bank account was only $719 lighter. Why does it matter
>> how?
>
> Because selling your RV that had a DirecTV receiver in it because you are
> going to settle down at your house and watch HDTV and then using the
> $50,000 say you got an HR10-250 for -$49,281 is kind of silly, isn't it?
Yeah, cause I would be out an RV. I didn't give up any property I owned.
> That's the difference between "actual cost" and "net cost" in this case.
> People are subtracting anything remotely related to DirecTV and HD in
> order
> to show how little they "paid".
Well, I'm not subtracting "anything", only my credit that translated
directly into $ but coming off a bill I had due. I'm not subtracting my
free HBO and free HD-pack for 6 months value as I wasn't paying those things
before getting the HD unit.
> Since a lot of other people don't get to do these same subtractions,
> claiming
> you "paid $719" for an item that you actually paid quite a bit more for
> is misleading. Likewise, claiming that it "cost $719" is also misleading.
No, they can't claim it only cost "them" $719 if they don't get the same
subtractions. Life isn't fair, we all don't get things for the same amount.
What the product costs everyone else is irrlevant to me. What it cost me is
relevant to me.
> It really doesn't seem so hard to say "I paid $850 and DirecTV gave me a
> $150 credit", yet everybody wants to say "I paid $700" for some bizarre
> reason.
Cause people don't talk that way in real life. I don't say I bought my wife
a minivan for $35,000 and then the dealer gave me $2500 in manufacturers
incentives and $2000 off for my GM Card spending. I say I got the minvan
for 30,500.
"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c7f76467d6d6141989b97@news.nabs.net...
> Seth (seth_lermanNOSPAM@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
>> The net cost is what it ended up costing them when all was said and done.
>> You are hung up on "gross cost". You don't pay tax on your gross income,
>> do
>> you? I know I don't. I pay on my (in tax speak) "adjusted gross income"
>> which is the same as "net income". My net cost on my TiVo was $719. I'm
>> not counting the free 6 months of HD-Pack as I didn't subscribe to it
>> before
>> getting the HD unit, nor do I count the free 6 months of HBO for the same
>> reason.
>>
>> Bottom line, my bank account was only $719 lighter. Why does it matter
>> how?
>
> Because selling your RV that had a DirecTV receiver in it because you are
> going to settle down at your house and watch HDTV and then using the
> $50,000 say you got an HR10-250 for -$49,281 is kind of silly, isn't it?
Yeah, cause I would be out an RV. I didn't give up any property I owned.
> That's the difference between "actual cost" and "net cost" in this case.
> People are subtracting anything remotely related to DirecTV and HD in
> order
> to show how little they "paid".
Well, I'm not subtracting "anything", only my credit that translated
directly into $ but coming off a bill I had due. I'm not subtracting my
free HBO and free HD-pack for 6 months value as I wasn't paying those things
before getting the HD unit.
> Since a lot of other people don't get to do these same subtractions,
> claiming
> you "paid $719" for an item that you actually paid quite a bit more for
> is misleading. Likewise, claiming that it "cost $719" is also misleading.
No, they can't claim it only cost "them" $719 if they don't get the same
subtractions. Life isn't fair, we all don't get things for the same amount.
What the product costs everyone else is irrlevant to me. What it cost me is
relevant to me.
> It really doesn't seem so hard to say "I paid $850 and DirecTV gave me a
> $150 credit", yet everybody wants to say "I paid $700" for some bizarre
> reason.
Cause people don't talk that way in real life. I don't say I bought my wife
a minivan for $35,000 and then the dealer gave me $2500 in manufacturers
incentives and $2000 off for my GM Card spending. I say I got the minvan
for 30,500.
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