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Key 5 - Why Price Comes Last

By Ken Xu on May 26, 2007 in General

5keys2.jpgWelcome to my last part of Key-Chain of Tips on buying Cheap-and-Best (Cheapest) Product.
This list will refresh the other keys I have shared you before:
- Key 1 - Define & Research Your Wish list
- Key 2 - Choose Your Brand Carefully!
- Key 3 - Quality Take Control of Everything
- Key 4 - Feature Comes After Quality

This post is my Last Key about price. I will tell you why prices should put on your bottom of your list. But before that, let me tell you a little story.

Price exactly is my biggest concern when buying a product before. And I believe, you would share the same thinking with me.

Price will always become our concern when purchasing something. “Hey, How’s the price?” or “I think this product is expensive” was my permanent thought the day.

At the time, I was still a high school student. Our family doesn’t have that budget for me to buy a good computer for me.

It force me to find some part time job to buy what I need.

The only way for me was to target a cheap computer parts on the market. I still didn’t know how to “Define & Search” or what “Quality & Brand” is back then! All I did was going to a store that rumored as a place that has the best deals for its customer.

The first mistake I made was to ask price instead of other. β€œHey buddy, do you have a cheap computer parts that will fit my limited budget?

I still remembered the first time bought computer. I choose a motherboard with a integrated processor, audio and video card. With one piece of unknown brand memory and 10 Gigabytes HDD. I built it myself to save more money.

What happen next was suck! My main purpose to buy computer was to play some great game at the time and do some design for my part time job (I was a CD cover designer that time).

My first bought PC cannot support what I need. I can’t play my game and it slowing down my design process. I cannot do anything because I had spent all my budge on it! I was regarding to not wait a little more to gather budget & buy the good one! :-(

The worst scenario I’d ever met was the hardware part would broke easily! Although they have warranty for me to replace my parts, it’s wasting my time to wait for the replacement. I happen to wait as long as a month until the parts arrived at my hand. That day was suffering!

Well, Lots of friends also got the same problems with me. And, may be you shared the same story with me. That’s why I wrote these 5 keys to let you know how I escape from this tragedy.

I hope these keys will help your shopping journey.

See you around and Have a nice day! :-)

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