{"id":1685,"date":"2009-10-09T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T23:01:07","slug":"clutter-vs-the-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/clutter-vs-the-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutter Vs The Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw this computer accessory bundle at Best Buy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site that had a whole load of stuff for about $9.99 as you can see here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.al6400.com\/bpic\/bbyaccsale.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Essentially, you are getting a power bar, webcam, headphone, 1GB USB stick and some LCD wipes.  The catch?  It looks like for the most part it is very cheap and outdated products.  I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect too much out of the webcam and headphones as an example.  But this did bring up a point I thought.  Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretend you were in the market for like a webcam.  In some ways you can say this is like paying $10 for a webcam and getting everything else for free.  So in that sense it can be a good deal.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking too how a lot of the items in this bundle would simply get tossed in the storage space if I did buy the bundle.  Call me crazy here, but if I wanted to buy say a webcam I would rather pay like $15 and buy a more modern day one.  I know value wise it is probably not as good when you factor in everything, but I know it will just build up as like a collection of unused items.<\/p>\n<p>For bundles like these if I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want or can find a use for at least 80% of the items I would usually not be inclined to get it despite the overall value.  Why sacrifice the quality for the main item that I want just to get a bunch of other lower quality items I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really need?  If you are in the market for most of the items though then of course it can be a good purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw this computer accessory bundle at Best Buy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s site that had a whole load of stuff for about $9.99 as you can see here: Essentially, you are getting a power bar, webcam, headphone, 1GB USB stick and some LCD wipes. The catch? It looks like for the most part it is very cheap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1147,2212,2213,2211],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-accessories","tag-bundle-values","tag-clutter","tag-outdated-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turnout.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}