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      03-08-2019, 12:37 PM   #181
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Originally Posted by New2Roundel View Post
You serious Bro? How many refrigerators can you buy with 40% of $50k? Also, refrigerators are used for at least a decade, whereas most people don't keep cars for more than 5+/- years. It's a completely different magnitude of loss. I don't take resale into consideration when buying cars, but it's moronic to compare how much you lose on a ~$1k refrigerator vs a $50k car.

It's one thing to not really care much about depreciation, it's completely something else not to acknowledge that the amount of loss isn't small.
Yes, I'm serious. The order of magnitude is the same in percent of purchase price.
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