Buying

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⏱️Overview

In this post I’ll discuss buying as the commercial world’s addiction and give my advice on how to buy rationally.

💰Buying

It’s crystal clear for me that the current world’s commercial addiction (consumerism) is way too high. There are countless shopping malls, centers, etc. They’re getting bigger, more fancy, annoying and addicting, more Earth unfriendly and resource wasting. I mean the garbage produced on Earth is even noticeable from space in many places.
In addition anyone can start a business and sell almost anything. There are plenty of garbage items on big auction websites in every country likely.

Sadly no company makes things that last for long anymore. Most are even specifically made to break just after warranty time (info on wiki). Why? Sadly because “f@ck you, we need profits” is companies only interest. This goes also on such scale that it effects whole humanity and Earth. Yet it will continue as long it makes profit and enough people support its sustainable existence.

For me the worst thing a person could do is buy something. But clearly some inventions aren’t possible to do yourself and even if, they’d still require parts to buy or materials and tools to manufacture. And doing everything yourself would need too much time too.

Before buying something the key questions for me are:

• Do I need it?
• Do I need to buy it?
  Is it possible to use or fix something I already have?
  Or could I maybe create something myself instead with same purpose?
• Do I need to buy a new product or would a used one be cheaper and/or better?
  Problem with new ones is their price drops a lot when they become used.
  Some new products are too cheaply made and old ones made were of better quality.
  New products have a lot of unneeded fancy features just to boost price and bring more profits.
• What are the key parameters and which are needed for me?
• What companies products are their best ones currently?
  Companies create new products yearly or constantly. It’s their business and by making more choices, they can earn more from people’s naivety or lack of knowledge. Honestly I’d rather like 1 product made every 10 years with parts to replace continued for that time.
• Which are most cost efficient? E.g. cost per performance for PC parts or fuel economy for cars etc.
• Where can I buy finally chosen product at lowest price?
  For used ones in auctions it may require checking few models and waiting longer to get one or checking those which get available.

So yes, that’s a lot of info to get before buying. And surely it takes time to buy rationally for me. I think for smaller or cheaper items I don’t even spend time for most.
I value highly people’s ratings and comments especially negative ones for products. Because they often reveal product flaws simply even disqualifying them for me. And with rating I can filter out all those stupid products that don’t even serve its purpose (well enough).
But for long lasting things I can spend days before buying.

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