Luton Airport car park fire

[SpikyMikey]

Luton airport fire car park to be 'fully demolished'

 

[Fastcar155]

In a time when most (over 90 % now) privately owned cars are bought on PCP the headline list price price is almost irrelevant.....only the monthly payment matters.

Hi , agree with your comments re cars but unfortunately everything is going down the route of monthly payments.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Hi , agree with your comments re cars but unfortunately everything is going down the route of monthly payments.

Apart from subscription or consumption based services which simply didn’t exist - like TV/Music streaming or Internet/ - which other things are bought through monthly payments in 2023 but weren’t in say 1973?

 

[Darrell]

Apart from subscription or consumption based services which simply didn’t exist - like TV/Music streaming or Internet/ - which other things are bought through monthly payments in 2023 but weren’t in say 1973?

Mobile Phones.
Holidays.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Mobile Phones.
Holidays.

Mobile phones weren’t a thing until recently, and for as long as they’ve been mainstream they’ve been bundled with airtime. Paying holiday parks and hotels on instalments has been a thing for decades too, although less common with the widespread availability of credit cards.

 

[Rayny]

Hi , agree with your comments re cars but unfortunately everything is going down the route of monthly payments.

The exception being when the car cannot be handed back, and the car 'buyer' becomes responsible for repaying the balance owing on the contract.

 

[Rayny]

Mobile phones weren’t a thing until recently, and for as long as they’ve been mainstream they’ve been bundled with airtime. Paying holiday parks and hotels on instalments has been a thing for decades too, although less common with the widespread availability of credit cards.

I'm so senile that I 'remember' having a mobile phone in 1973

On the opposite side - Radio Rentals was set up in 1930(ish) to rent out radios, they later also offered televisions and video recorders.

 

[Darrell]

Mobile phones weren’t a thing until recently, and for as long as they’ve been mainstream they’ve been bundled with airtime. Paying holiday parks and hotels on instalments has been a thing for decades too, although less common with the widespread availability of credit cards.

I had a mobile phone in the late 80’s. 35 years ago wasn’t recent.

 

[markjay]

I'm so senile that I 'remember' having a mobile phone in 1973

On the opposite side - Radio Rentals was set up in 1930(ish) to rent out radios, they later also offered televisions and video recorders.

Oh yes, I bought a second hand TV from them once, they were selling them when they were no longer renting them.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Oh yes, I bought a second hand TV from them once, they were selling them when they were no longer renting them.

We did the same with a VCR.
Betamax

 

[Darrell]

A college pal of mine bought a leather jacket from Top Man on monthlies in the mid 80’s. Also buying items through a catalogue and paying monthly has been a thing for decades.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I had a mobile phone in the late 80’s. 35 years ago wasn’t recent.

My post which you replied to said:

Apart from subscription or consumption based services which simply didn’t exist - like TV/Music streaming or Internet/ - which other things are bought through monthly payments in 2023 but weren’t in say 1973?

Would you agree that mainstream mobile phones are more recent than 1973? I’d say mobile phones, 35 years and the 1990s are all more recent than 1973

 

[Darrell]

My post which you replied to said:



Would you agree that mainstream mobile phones are more recent than 1973? I’d say mobile phones, 35 years and the 1990s are all more recent than 1973

I didn’t notice your 1973 bit.

 

[190]

On the opposite side - Radio Rentals was set up in 1930(ish) to rent out radios, they later also offered televisions and video recorders.

I remember my parents renting a TV in the 50's and 60's. There was a very sound reason for this rental model, TV's were both an expensive capital purchase and by modern standards very unreliable. Renting protected you from the excessive costs of both. When TV's became cheaper and more reliable people bought instead of rented.

I've never considered the current PCP model for cars as having quite the same financial benefits unless you count the ability to buy something you can't afford.

 

[Dryce]

I remember my parents renting a TV in the 50's and 60's. There was a very sound reason for this rental model, TV's were both an expensive capital purchase and by modern standards very unreliable. Renting protected you from the excessive costs of both. When TV's became cheaper and more reliable people bought instead of rented.

My recollection of our early family TVs was that they were rented and that we had frequent visits from an 'engineer' to fix them.

The later TVs were owned - but I recall my father frequently fixing the first owned one himself - there were two valves that failed on a regular basis.

By comparison the later transistor and integrated circuit models were much much more reliable.

I've never considered the current PCP model for cars as having quite the same financial benefits unless you count the ability to buy something you can't afford.

Well it has some benefits to the manufacturers in that it allows them to obfuscate pricing.

 

[Petrol Pete]

TV sets with a coin slot/box in the back were a thing once upon a time I believe.

 

[del320]

Luton airport fire car park to be 'fully demolished'

Who cares? This is far more interesting...

...and who remembers the dual-standard tellies where you could change from 405 lines to 625 lines?

 

[SpikyMikey]

Who cares? This is far more interesting...
TBF it was a poorly executed attempt to get the thread back on topic. I Must Try Harder (says the bloke who regularly steers things off course)

 

[colinallcars]

Who cares? This is far more interesting...

...and who remembers the dual-standard tellies where you could change from 405 lines to 625 lines?

625 lines came in with BBC2 iirc

 

[D2028]

TV sets with a coin slot/box in the back were a thing once upon a time I believe.

You are correct, I can remember them from childhood more years ago than I care to mention