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Post by Justin Case on May 15, 2009 17:12:51 GMT -5
good luck with that Grant! I once tried to convince my wife I needed a pool table in our living room. It went something like this: "Hey Honey, you know what we need! A pool table. Remember when you said you wanted a table in the living room so you can do your scrap booking? Well, If I get a pool table, we can make a custom table top for it, so you can do your scrap booking and I can play pool! I won't have to go to the bar to play anymore and you'll have your table! Whatta ya say!?" The Wife: NO. end of story. I thought it was a brilliant solution! Needless to say, she got her scrap booking table and I'm still without a pool table! Women always win!
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Post by toasterboy on May 15, 2009 17:49:47 GMT -5
Love all your replies. THing is she WANTS a new Dining room table, but she doesn't want to spend over $1000 on it! She should just be grateful I don't want the SULTAN gaming table listed on that same site!
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Post by BDS on May 16, 2009 13:06:13 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Grant. Now I want a $9000 table. The $1500 table wouldn't even be sufficient now. Grumble grumble grumble ...
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Post by Tournament Master on May 16, 2009 17:59:02 GMT -5
I love the company name and tag line. Geek Chic...Come out of the basement. Awesome.
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Post by TTX on May 16, 2009 19:45:24 GMT -5
I figure...get the 1,000 dollar table and send the extra 600 dollars to IB and me to go to Galacticon. But hopefully you get the table you want.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2009 6:23:54 GMT -5
Just a suggestion is all...
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Post by Trent Lawless on May 18, 2009 12:34:32 GMT -5
I don't have time to do the research myself, but what I would do is to look around for other game tables on a site like Amazon.com where they do customer reviews. Find some of the cheaper ones that have reviews that aren't particularly good. Tell her what I tell my wife: "You shouldn't buy the most expensive thing out there, but you shouldn't buy the cheapest or next-to-cheapest either, because the workmanship is always shoddier. Something in the middle is the optimal buy."
I wish you luck.
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Post by Trent Lawless on May 18, 2009 21:40:15 GMT -5
Just thought of another tactic, although you have to be willing to wait for an unspecified time, but it just might work. Concede the point for now, but don't say you're giving up. Let it fade to the background. If she talks about buying other dining room tables at any point, agree that you'll need to get on that "soon." Keep stalling. In the interim, no doubt something will come up where she'll want to buy an expensive item (that's not a table) and will be really attached to it. When she says, "Well, what do you think?" you can rub your chin thoughtfully and say, "Hmm, I don't know. I mean, I'd really like to do this for you, but after all, you kinda nixed that table idea." There's your negotiating room. This is how I will be able to go see a concert without my wife while she gets her iPhone. It's all in the timing.
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Post by DK II on May 18, 2009 21:56:46 GMT -5
Go with Mark's second idea...or just buy it and live with the $600 silent treatment for a few weeks...your wife will get over it...but you just can't go off the hook when she over spends on the next big purchase by $600...
When i finally stop moving around with the AF i will have something like this table along with the alexandria codex!
And oh by the way...a pool table to boot! I've been talking about own a pool table from the first date with my wife...hell the second part of the date was at a mini pool hall...not that i am a good "pool" player or anything i just like enjoy playing.
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