Two rivians in the wild at the same place
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I really do like these things. I have a pickup and an electric car, so I'm definitely in the target demographic. And while I could afford one, I just don't see myself spending $70k on a car (even if that's fast becoming unavoidable).
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@Cash-Rewards I only see one. You'd think someone who could afford rivian could buy their strawberries already picked!
Edit: spotted it! It blends in well!
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@ibRAD There is a green one in front of the white car in the back right.
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@Cash-Rewards There are now $90k or more with the new pricing. Even used, they are close to $80k.
"I give into my disease, of my needs"
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"Honey, good news, I got a new truck! Bad news, we're picking our own strawberries from now on."
Just saving kings and pregnant women from random floods and broken houses.
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LOL my first blush reaction to the title (before I read and saw the pics was) it must be a glitch in the matrix!!!
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@Cash-Rewards said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
And while I could afford one, I just don't see myself spending $70k on a car
As I've gotten older and slowly progressed in my career, the list of things I could technically afford and the list of things I SHOULD afford is growing ever larger.
I guess that comes from so many years of having no money left at the end of the year, or just the guilt of whatever else I could be using our money for. I feel like I'd be all over a Rivian if I had some way to make it a business expense, like so many truck buyers do.
Just saving kings and pregnant women from random floods and broken houses.
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@ash78 said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
"Honey, good news, I got a new truck! Bad news, we're picking our own strawberries from now on."
This is out of touch with the target market.
They're on the other end of the curve, where they pay extra for the farm-to-table experience of hand-picking locally grown organic free range cruelty-free strawberries.
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@nermal still a funny joke though.
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@nermal Every time I go pick strawberries with my family, I feel really weird about it. Like, I'm not taking someone's job away, but I am sort of cosplaying as a migrant worker.
Maybe that's the goal. It's humbling.
Blueberries are so much easier, they grow mostly at eye level
Just saving kings and pregnant women from random floods and broken houses.
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@ash78 Strawberries are at eye level too if you lie down first. Around here it's like 50c/qt premium for the already picked ones. Hardly seems worth it to pick your own. of course you could buy the ones all the way from California for half the price of the local ones.
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@Cash-Rewards I think we have one Rivian pickup and SUV in Rochester, MN At least that's all I ever see. I think they're might be two Lightnings and somebody has a Lucid. I have seen it once.
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@ibRAD LOL! I usually learn about the pre-picked ones just as soon as we've finished picking. It's a scam!
Where I live, it's usually equal price for Florida (300 miles away) vs California (2,500 miles away) but oddly enough, the quality is always a crapshoot even then. I usually choose closer because at least it's less environmental impact, and FL tends to have more small farms while CA is a handful of monsters who distribute so far away.
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@ash78 it's the kids the screw me up. Like sure, I could afford the car and have no issue using the money on myself. But the idea of doing slightly less for myself to save the money for kids stuff/activities is a strong deterrent for me personally
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@ash78 I was thinking exactly that. Like, I'm paying to do something the owner would otherwise pay someone else to do. That is a brilliant business model. "Rather than paying workers, what if workers paid me?"
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@ash78 It's easily double price for local berries here compared to the southern imports, but they are more than double the quality. Strawberries shouldn't be white inside and the size of a squash ball!
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@DuckDuckGreyDuck seen a handful of lightning, and one lucid in the wild, but no rivian SUV yet.
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"Why do I have three kids and no money? Why can't I have no kids and three money?" -- Homer Simpson
I gave up pretending what life would look like without kids a long time ago. First because I can't imagine it, emotionally. Second, I refuse to envision it, financially.
Just saving kings and pregnant women from random floods and broken houses.
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@Cash-Rewards said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
@ash78 I was thinking exactly that. Like, I'm paying to do something the owner would otherwise pay someone else to do. That is a brilliant business model. "Rather than paying workers, what if workers paid me?"
See also: Self-serve frozen yogurt places.
And they have the gall to ask for a tip!
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@ash78 said in Two rivians in the wild at the same place:
First because I can't imagine it, emotionally. Second, I refuse to envision it, financially.
Yup, that sums it up exactly
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@Cash-Rewards I've already seen 3 different R1S around. I see R1T's at least every day.
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@Cash-Rewards they are apparently working on a smaller cheaper truck. I think the R1T is awesome but the price is a lot!
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@ash78 -- Yeah... I've been at a place for a while now where I feel I have enough things of enough quality, and would rather use money to see the kids off to a better start in their own lives than get more or better things.
Especially the really expensive ones -- a Rivian would be great, but for that kind of money I could get a his'n'hers two-pack of things that fulfill its function.
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@ash78 -- U-pick produce probably doesn't make much financial sense for the customer, but there's some atavistic attraction to the experience and ambience (similarly with home gardening for people who do that). I was just reading some thoughts about the appeal of seed catalogues, which digressed into the usefulness of old ones for certain kinds of historical research. It contained this observation: "In 1900, nearly two in five Americans lived on farms and three in five lived in the country. Most people knew how to grow things."
The US is now over 80% urbanized (admittedly, looking closely at the relevant definition of "urban" shows that it has been changed on several occasions and includes lots and lots of places that don't exactly have a skyscraper district) and trending more and more in that direction, as is the world in general.
Picking one's own berries or whatever is as close as a lot of people find it practical to get to "this is what a farm is like, and where food comes from," and even that can be satisfying.
