AssFace's Journal: Phone dillemmas - what a nice life.

The fact that the only real dilemma in my life right now is that I want to get this phone, and regardless of the costs available to me, I can afford them all - this reminds me that my life is pretty damn easy. It is just a matter of whether I want to pay less and wait, or pay more and have it right now in my grubby little hands. Any complaints I have are pretty meaningless in my life right now. I am healthy, I live in a nice place, and I can afford everything that I need.

Now I am to the point where the things that bug me and that I can't afford are all superficial luxury things.

When once gets to this state, it is usually when things like eating disorders, body dysmorphia, depression, etc set in - those are all disorders of having your needs met.
If you didn't have your needs met, you would be too focused on basic survival to have time for odd things to creep into your mind - like whether or not people can see your nose hairs and what impact on the moment that has.

So anyway, the issue, without further analysis is that I have this new Mac. I have a phone. The phone works just dandy as it is now, and the Mac works well enough for now (even though I "upgraded" to a development Java package and broke a bunch of the apps on here - fortunately the only way to fix it is to reinstall the OS).
So of course I want to go and mess with all of that by getting a new phone - one that has the magical and mystical Bluetooth.

I have the Nokia 8890. I paid some stupidly high price for it, I would say probably around $500 - all the more obscene since less than a year before that I bought two other phones, one of them being a $500 Nokia 8860.
That was in the year 2000 - so this phone has served me well and I got much more use for the money out of it compared to the other phones (although since they have resale value, you can still recoup a large portion of their value).
I want the Sony/Ericsson T616 (I have AT&T here). It even has a camera in it.

I had looked in the stores here before and they didn't have the T616. But today, while out and about running errands, I saw it in the phone shop. I popped in and asked him much it is - they said what I thought was $415, but then she repeated it loudly and slowly a single digit at a time since I am obviously retarded 4-5-0!
The $35 difference didn't matter too much to me. I was taken back by the digit on the far left side, not the other two.

In the States, I can get it for around $270 on Ebay. I can get it for around $220 on Amazon after a $100 rebate. The issue with the rebate is that it is not an instant rebate, and getting that thing to me is going to be a hassle.
Also, anything I buy in the States and have sent here will take a long time to get here (even feasibly get lost), and it will cost me at least 22% duty to get through customs.

So do I pay over $100 less, and then wait what could be on the order of a month or more to get this item? Or do I pay the $100+ extra, but I get it whenever I want?

At the moment, I'm leaning towards the latter. I am normally a pretty frugal person and will try to find the cheaper or at least most cost effective way of doing something (taking into account quality).

But in this case, I think speed of access to the item and least hassle factor might win out.

I am going to drop some hints to my fiancee about it and I might get it for XMas or my birthday which are both coming up.
If not, after that, I will buy it for myself.

Then I am going to make a web walking tour of parts of Bermuda (mainly the city of Hamilton near my office), among other useless things with the phone.
Perhaps also some collages - take 100 pics and then use photoshop to edit them into big old panoramic fun deals.
Also, I am taking pics of the games of Scrabble that I play - eventually want to tie that into a few more ideas I have for my website.