Luxury lifestyles sold at cost to wealthy cheapskates.
Fallen on lean times? Need to get rid of a few luxury items? You might be unloading your wares to a guy like this. Originally posted on Craiglist:
“I make what some would say is a lot of money… 370K per year. Many people make more. I just don’t spend a lot of money because I know the difference between wants and needs. The recession is the time that I go after the wants… In a few more months I am going to buy the Steinway baby grand piano somebody’s wife had to have new and never plays and I am going to get it at a huge discount. I am going to get the boat I have envied that someone overleveraged to get. I am going to wait and wait and cherry pick the Tahoe vacation cottage that some divorcing fuckers are going to sell me for rock bottom. I have spent years building this war fund for just this time…the past few months I have been waiting…knowing this is going to get a lot worse for people than it seems now.
I don’t wish ill will on anyone but I ain’t going to buy their lavish lifestyle extras for fair market either.”
Something tells me that this guy may not actually ‘wish’ ill will on anyone, but he sure as hell welcomes it with open arms.
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You are failing? Do you want my car? I have a lease on a 2008 Impala, 6-cylinder, fully loaded vehicle. Take my lease, please! I love the car, it is beyond wonderful but I cannot afford it. TAKE MY LEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!
It’s not the concept that bothers me about this guy, it’s the attitude. I hope that he is crushed under the wheel of Karma, but not until after he buys Lynn out of her lease.
“Wealthy Cheapskates”? Henion, please. InTheHand, please. So this guy make a lot of money–we all wish we did, including you two Robin Hoods–and he apparently has been disciplined in how he has spent it. And he’s looking to get the best deal he can get on what he wants. Is this is some moral crime in your eyes? You’d better condemn ALL of us, then. Just because someone has a lot of money, does that mean s/he is morally obligated to pay more something than the rest of us normally would, because they should feel bad for making a lot of money? If you did any homework whatsoever instead of giving a mere knee-jerk, look-at-me-I’m-so-poor-you-should-feel-sorry-for-me response, you’d know that the vast majority of millionaires and people you’d deem as “rich” are people who have made mostly modest incomes throughout their lives but have scraped and saved at every step of the way. And they have only bought what they want–a cottage, a piano, whatever–when the price is right. They wait until the time is right to buy, and frankly the time to buy a LOT of “luxury” items–things that many of us want but cannot afford–is right now. I applaud this guy for making a lot of money, having the discipline for not spending it unwisely (sound familiar to a lot of you?), and waiting until the time is right for making large purchases at rock-bottom prices. This guy is actually what is RIGHT about capitalism. Think about this before you condemn him or me for this attitude. There are no handouts going on here, no government money involved, no taxes being used to fund this guy’s wants or needs–it’s just the money he has earned, and the right to spend it on whatever he wants. We ALL wish we were in those shoes. And his attitude? The people he is going to be “taking advantage of” are worse, trust me. They are the ones who made a lot of money and wanted to flaunt it, to spend excessively for no other reason than to brag to the world that they do, in fact, have a lot of money, and look at me world, aren’t I great. They are the ones you should be criticizing for karma. This guy has committed no ethical or moral crime here, people. We may be unemployed, but that doesn’t give us the moral green light to pick on anyone better off than us who is playing the game of life smartly.
I don’t see the problem. He is just expressing what a lot of people think but fear to say.
Just look at all the “investors” running after foreclosed houses, for example. They are all looking to profit on the problems of someone else.
It’s human nature.
His attitude doesn’t really bother me. I’m a cheapskate too. I just found it amusing that he took the time to post this to craigslist. But thanks for the commentary here.
Freeheeler – glad that this post got you all riled up.