In which I'm indecisive on the Internarglewebbertubenets

[active_apathy]

I have a nonzero surplus of funds, and means for a slightly-more rapid deployment of the aforementioned funds to the Internets. Hoorays! In theory, this should mean my Internet purchasing wishlists should shrink a little.

In theory. There are some issues surrounding this; and rather than discuss it at length, I've made a list. So.

• I have a surplus of funds. +1
  
• Once surplus funds are spent, there are no surplus funds. -1
• On the other hand, spending a surplus of funds can lead to neat stuff. +1
• It can also lead to less-than-neat stuff. -1
• Less-than-neat stuff can be dispensed as small last-minute gifts. +1
  
• Less-than-neat stuff can be entertainingly mocked. +1
• Less-than-neat stuff cannot be dispensed as small last-minute gifts to those who've seen the aforementioned mockery. -1
  
• I can has Internets. +1
• Surplus funds may be spent on the Interwebs. +1
• The Nargletubes offer a variety of stuff. +1
• Objects on the Nargletubes may appear cooler than they are. -1
• Conversely, objects on the Nargletubes may be cooler than they appear. +1
• Spending surplus funds on the Intertubes also leads to a lack of surplus funds, typically faster than by other means of funds dispersal. -1
• Spending surplus funds on the Interwebs is still slightly slower than, say, throwing money from a rooftop. +1
• The Internargles have many wares from which to choose. +1
• The Internargles have many wares from which to choose. -1
  
• The Internets are rumoured to be a series of tubes. ±0
• `These tubes are not, in fact, pneumatic; this leads to significant delays between purchase and possession. -1
• Anticipation can be good! +1
• Waiting can be bad. -1
  
• Installing a pneumatic Internargles purchasing tube would have a significant downward effect on surplus funds. -1
• United States play money is faring poorly in the foreign exchange markets. +1
• This means significant appreciation in the value of Australian up-until-recently-play money against the aforementioned United States play money. +1
• Appreciation of the AUD against the USD means lower prices for Intertubes goods. +1
• Appreciation of the AUD against the USD just encourages my spending habits. -1
• The effects of this encouragement are cheaper than at other times. +1
  
• This state of affairs seems likely to persist for a while. -1
• The AUD is a heavily-speculated currency, and prone to fluctuation without warning, possibly leading to depreciation. +1
• The AUD is a heavily-speculated currency, and prone to fluctuation without warning, possibly leading to further appreciation. -1
• My spending habits tend toward the impulsive. -1
• Self-control doesn't seem to be available for purchasing anywhere. -1
• The lack of a pneumatic Internargles purchasing tube offers a kind of temporal disincentive to buy stuff, only to wait for it. +1
• And wait for it. -1
• And wait for it. -1
• Self-control is probably also non-returnable once opened, which would be bad if I didn't like it. +1
• It's easy to be impulsive when purchasing requires but a click. -1
• ...followed by minutes upon minutes of typittytyping. -1

Well, that should help. Total it all, and we get...

• +1: 18
• ±0: 1
• -1: 18

Final score: ±0!


Well. That worked.


In practice, 1 AUD = 0.90 USD is a happy, happy place, and this post is indicative of nothing other than the redistribution of wealth. The difficult thing here is deciding just where my surplus of funds is going to disappear in an electronic puff of acquisitive glee.

Comments

[lurkslikefox.livejournal.com]

Evil, evil interwebs with it's easy shopping that you can do when your all depressed at work. I keep telling myself that fullfillment is not bought through material goods and then I see some of the DVDs they have in the USA that we don't have in the UK and for really cheap prices and all I'd have to do would be buy a multi-region DVD player and then look that computer game's just come out... bah!

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Blow ten percent on wild internet spendy-spending and sock the other 90% away so the next unexpected expense is already covered :)

[antrobus178.livejournal.com]

I have the solution. Buy through mail-order instead.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

But that means waiting for the order to arrive, too. -1

[antrobus178.livejournal.com]

Buy eBooks through mail order. Problem solved!

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I think you should buy the Dehydrated Camp Meal Mystery Box, because it was the weirdest thing I could find on eBay at short notice.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

...wow. I'm not sure I want to know what weird things eBay turns up when you've got time to search thoroughly.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

If 1 AUD = 0.90 USD then why are my comic books about twice the price on the cover?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mostly because the retailers like money, and their distributors before them, and the importers before that. Who are, for now, making a killing on the exchange rate.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Laaaaame.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Are they imported, or printed locally (anywhere in Oz is "locally")? Makes big differences

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Who knows :P I'll have to check it out.