Well, people here don't seem to get it, Its up to the fellow to spend his money the way he chooses. Everyone have their own interests and people don't mind spending a premium on things that they care about. While you guy's may not share his interest and think he is wasting his money, You cannot call him crazy for spending 50k on a Cabby. Its something he cares about. As long as you are spending your own hard earned money and not your parent's you have are justified in spending it on on whatever takes your fancy and whatever makes you feel happy.
We have people who don't mind spending 30~40k on a graphics card which will run your games for a year before loosing 80% of its value and has far more chances of completely becoming worthless before a a 50k cabby does.
For that matter, don't we see people spending more than a lac rupees on a bloody Audio setup, or 50k for a damned Wrist watch. Then we also have people who spend 10 Lac on a car or have wet dreams about a Ferrari when the basic purpose of transportation is also met by a Maruti 800.
Its the same thing. You don't mind spending a premium if it makes you happy and you think you are getting yours moneys worth. Lian Li is the Cabinet equivalent of the Ferrari.
Naga said:
Even here at my place, ppl go on about my "lavishness" in buying the Xaser etc when they don't think twice about spending 20k on some bottle of scotch!
Same here. People at my office think I am crazy because I spent 12k on my Stacker 830 or that I have more than 2TB of disk space on my PC or that I bought PS3, XBOX Elite and PSP and I buy PS3 originals costing 2.5~3k each. Bloody hell, I am not calling them crazy for buying a 12 Lac Car for driving to the office or spending insane amounts of money on booze.