2010-11-03, 04:55 PM
I made a pretty big mistake with the speakers.
Apparently, sitting in the room full of electronics was an old X-220 Logitech set, which has been used before (exactly how much I'm not sure, but it definitely works), but being idle atm. I must be extremely blind or something to have missed it
This came to my attention after my speakers from newegg (Cyber Acoustics CA3550RB) arrived at the door, at which point my parents started yelling at me for wasting money.
Yes, I screwed up. But now they're asking me to return the thing and to order from amazon.com instead in the future. This is where I disagree. The shipping cost was $15.58, but the product cost is $27.72. The sunk cost is pretty high, and it would make better sense to keep these speakers around as a backup in case someone in the family needs a replacement. I'm not exactly sure how the free shipping policies work on amazon.com, but even with the free shipping deals my mom apparently gets, it wouldn't be a whole lot cheaper to buy from amazon.
TL;DR Should I keep my speakers as a backup? Or return them for roughly two thirds the cost?
Apparently, sitting in the room full of electronics was an old X-220 Logitech set, which has been used before (exactly how much I'm not sure, but it definitely works), but being idle atm. I must be extremely blind or something to have missed it
This came to my attention after my speakers from newegg (Cyber Acoustics CA3550RB) arrived at the door, at which point my parents started yelling at me for wasting money.Yes, I screwed up. But now they're asking me to return the thing and to order from amazon.com instead in the future. This is where I disagree. The shipping cost was $15.58, but the product cost is $27.72. The sunk cost is pretty high, and it would make better sense to keep these speakers around as a backup in case someone in the family needs a replacement. I'm not exactly sure how the free shipping policies work on amazon.com, but even with the free shipping deals my mom apparently gets, it wouldn't be a whole lot cheaper to buy from amazon.
TL;DR Should I keep my speakers as a backup? Or return them for roughly two thirds the cost?