Saturday, February 1, 2025

ACQUISITION COSTS

 As they used to explain to us back in basic navy school, it isn't the initial acquisition cost that hurts, it's the maintenance costs. It would have been somewhat clearer if they used a graphic.

I don't know about you, but my wanderings through the internet are now accompanied everywhere by little ads from Temu like the screen shot above. I've never bought anything there or even looked but I thought the juxtaposition in this one was amusing.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So true. The better looking the model the higher the maintenance costs.

Mind your own business said...

There's an old quote (can't recall who to attribute it to) that women and battleships are similar, because it costs a fortune to keep them both in paint and powder.

HMS Defiant said...

That was the line I was trying to remember!