FIRST Fundraiser: Selling LED "Lightbulbs"

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

Read into this: People generally don't like thinking about/planning out the(ir) future.



Read into this: You would think people would make decisions based off what's cheaper in the long run, but they don't.



Read into this: More than half of the people would rather get £45 now than £70 later. You can apply this to savings: people would rather save 20 dollars (estimated) now and buy cheap bulbs, than save X (greater than 20) over time any buy expensive bulbs. You see this with food too: processed vs. natural- many will argue that natural/unprocessed food is better for you, but processed food is cheaper/easier.

I'm not a major in Psychology-I've only had one year in high school- but studies repeatedly show that people don't think logically.

Personally, I'm against this. Its a step in the right direction, but not really with the right foot. I'm glad that FIRST is trying to help out teams but I'd rather see the Google money being spent elsewhere.

People who have been around a while understand that when you are told a time to payback by somebody trying to sell something then you should increase that 50% to 400% in the real world.

I can't afford spending hundreds of dollars on a new technology that has no other benefit other than potential costs savings in the future. Especially when that potential could be way off. It's just not gonna happen.