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OF: What wine you are having now?
我: Margaux, St Estephe; retail price over $500
OF: OK. Rich man.
我: No. From suppliers.  Samples.
OF: Good wine?
我: Y
OF: Worth that you will consider to buy?
我: N. Hard to sell.
OF: Too expensive?
我: 朋友都很孤寒
OF: Price performance not good enough?
我: Good enough. But朋友都很孤寒.
OF: May be 硬汉 is interested. Better than me.
我: He is even more. Maybe he thinks money should not be spent on wine.
OF: Or you should give  samples to share with us to try first. 500 is quite expensive to me.
我: U told me u only want wine at around $100.
OF: Need to prove it gives 5 times of satisfaction than a 100 wine.
我: No No No.  U still don't understand.
OF: Otherwise why worth if it cannot give 5 times more value to me?
我: U don't understand. Say, going to Thailand costs u $3,000; going to France costs u $30,000, does it mean going to France 10 times happier?  Have u heard of Parker points?  A wine with 90 points costs $500, a wine with 95 points costs $2,000. Cannot imply 4 times better.  What is the purpose of drinking wine.  Tell me.
我: Forget about it.  Too deep.
OF: I think Thailand and France are very different.  Wines of 500 and 100 looks to be Thailand comparing with Malaysia.
我: Eating a burger costs $20, eating an abalone costs $200.  10 times happier?
OF: The reasons that friends do not buy it is because they did not see the same big difference in value.  Not because 朋友都很孤寒. For me, I can spend more money in camera.
我: Put it this way.  Friends choose not to spend money on fine wine. Y, personal choice.
OF: But I am not convinced of the different value to me with the price.
我: But the point is: a wine @$500 does not mean 5 times better than a wine @$100.
OF: You are correct that it is personal choice.
我: If u want 5 times better, maybe a wine @$3,000.
OF: If it costs so much difference but cannot deliver comparable value, I will not choose.
我: Not a linear relationship.
OF: Marginal value. Understood.  Still we have a lot of rich men to buy.
我: Nothing about marginal value.
OF: Don't worry. To me, it is.
我: A camera @$100,000 are 10 times better than a camera @$10,000?
OF: As you said, it is not linear.
我: Exactly.
OF: I can see the value up to 30,000.  Not as much as 100,000.
我: So what is the discussion about?
OF: They have other elements.
我: "Need to prove it gives 5 times of satisfaction than a 100 wine."
硬汉(插嘴): Just back home. 82 msgs!
我: It is so difficult to convince OF.
硬汉: Why bother?