LSA Under US$50K

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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TAKE HOME AN LSA, FOR UNDER $50K ... for sale as a
Special-LSA at $49,995,

A $49,995 LSA does not cost *LESS THAN* $50,000. For all practical
purposes, $49,995 *IS* $50,000. By the time you pay taxes, registration,
transportation etc, etc, etc, you will be paying well north of $50,000 even if
you can resist adding options.

This type of appeal assumes that the potential customer is an idiot. As a
potential customer, I find that insulting.

Vaughn

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:49:31 GMT, "Vaughn Simon"
wrote in
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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TAKE HOME AN LSA, FOR UNDER $50K ... for sale as a
Special-LSA at $49,995,

A $49,995 LSA does not cost *LESS THAN* $50,000. For all practical
purposes, $49,995 *IS* $50,000. By the time you pay taxes, registration,
transportation etc, etc, etc, you will be paying well north of $50,000 even if
you can resist adding options.

I believe the point of the AvWeb story was that, while LSA aircraft
were expected to be affordable (inexpensive), most seem to priced
around $100k; compared to a used C-152 that's not very reasonably
priced. The Sport Hornet seems to have set a low-price benchmark in
the LSA market.


This type of appeal assumes that the potential customer is an idiot. As a
potential customer, I find that insulting.

Vaughn


Well, you've got to appreciate you're dealing with journalistic
license here. :-)

On Sep 9, 8:12 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
I believe the point of the AvWeb story was that, while LSA aircraft
were expected to be affordable (inexpensive), most seem to priced
around $100k; compared to a used C-152 that's not very reasonably
priced.

You are comparing apples to if not quite oranges, at least very old
slowly decaying apples.

Buying a brand new LSA with a modern design is more expensive than
buying a used C152 that was designed 30 years ago, itself a
modernization of an aircraft design which is now FIFTY years old (1957
= first flight of C150, infact in 3 days it will be exactly 50 years,
September 12).

Either compare it to buying a brand new C152 (ie the new Cessna LSA)
or a 30 year old LSA (ie something not to dissimilar to a 30 year old
C152 actually) and it might make more sense.

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in
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This type of appeal assumes that the potential customer is an
idiot. As a potential customer, I find that insulting.

The fact that you don't already know that "under $50k" means $49,999.99 does
more to imply that you were born yesterday than the pricetag itself...

"Judah" wrote in message
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The fact that you don't already know that "under $50k" means $49,999.99 does
more to imply that you were born yesterday than the pricetag itself...

Whatever...