The Rich vs The Average on eBay

I'll give you £12 for one.

Including P&P

The rich didn't get rich by giving money away.

I’m like that

find it difficult not to take my few pence change in a shop the way some walk away if it’s only pennies

I’ve only done that once or twice , I’ve tried it can’t do it

As my Granny used to say-

Many mickle makes a good Irish joke.

A mate of mine last year spent about a day working out various combinations of train tickets in order to save £20.

That was £20 on a £10,000 holiday.

He's a millionaire and I am nowhere near. But I wouldn't have bothered to save £20.

So yes, I think there is something in the notion that some people care more about money than most of us. I don't think he accumulated his fortune by saving £20 every day (350 days in a year times £20 = £7,000 which is very nice but hardly Rockefeller) but perhaps it is that instinctive search for value, or maybe just awareness of it, that scales up.

illness imo

I sold an item to a person living in a £15m house in Chelsea. She paid full price.

I don't usually waste my time checking on my buyers' property values but I did on this occasion because she's an actress.

A mate of mine last year spent about a day working out various combinations of train tickets in order to save £20.

That was £20 on a £10,000 holiday.


Time is money and £20 is very poor pay for a day's work.

Where do you draw the line? Do you want to, say, spend a day filling in online surveys?

One days work to save £20 every day for the rest of his life seems a decent rate to me,iawn.

I recently put up This Is It by Michael Jackson at £2.75 because I paid slightly more at the boot sale than I normally do for CD's. Didn't think it would sell as World Books (I think) had loads for sale at £1.99.

I've started to notice I get better prices quite often,but have no idea as to why.

Should have added it sold.

One days work to save £20 every day for the rest of his life seems a decent rate to me,iawn.


GJ - Maybe I misunderstood Ram's post but I thought it was one day's work to make a one-time £20 saving?

That's right. Hours taken to save £20 on a £10,000 holiday. As a percentage it is nothing. I was agreeing (more or less) with the OP's musing that many rich people have a different instinct round money. Of course, saving money on tickets was a waste of time but if that same instinct means looking for a better deal on company offices then that could be worth tens of thousands a year. As with the OP's ebay sales -- getting a third off a £25 thingummy is nothing but if they also get a third off the price of a car, it starts to add up.

It is also irrational on another level. My mate would have done better to pay full whack or even more for a travel agent to do the work and spend the time making more money at the day job. But I guess you cannot turn it on and off.