Does Cutting Corners Cut Cost?

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Last night I went to bed a bit angry because I didn't do as much as I set out to do during the day and today sort of turned out to follow suit. I did something that I thought was going to save me money but it ended up taking a lot of my time and time is money, so did I really save money?

So what happened was, I needed to use a plugin that costs $49.00 and I already was going to pay for it until I came across someone on my study group selling it for $12. It's like a group payment for a mega plan where it would have to be shared between everyone instead of paying for the individual plan.

I thought that was sweet until I came across another person offering to send a zip file containing this plugin for just $2.00!!! Good Lord! My eyes must have dilated when I saw that info. That meant I was going to be saving $47.00 in total. Actually, paying for my own plan offers me better value but I thought since I'm only practising, for now, I don't need the whole deal, I could always pay for my personal one later on.

That's how I sent my $2.00 to this person with so much quickness. Not one person on our group complained about the one of $12.00 or even the one I had paid for but when I tried using mine, it wasn't working right. The person had to put me through a step-by-step guide on how to carry out the installation and activation but it still didn't work.

To say I was frustrated is putting it lightly, my anxiety wasn't having it either. We spent hours trying to figure it out, hours that was meant for other activities. I already was regretting not going with the mega plan one because that one was actually legit but this on the other hand, seemed to be an 'illegal' copy (I'm not sure how these things work).

I gave up and hoped it would be different today, and yes, it worked today. I deleted the whole thing and started afresh and it finally worked. I breathed a sigh of relief but I was also unhappy about how much time I wasted. I actually saved $10.00 by not going with the other plan and $47.00 not choosing the personal plan, but the hours I spent trying to make the plugin work is worth more than $10.00.

In my opinion, cutting corners when done rightly cuts cost, you just need to weigh your pros and cons properly which I didn't do. It had sounded like a good deal cutting corners I won't lie, but I absolutely regret my decision in this case.

I had thought this was going to be faster and save me money but it came around to bite me. So did I really learn my lesson? because I'm still using it. What if it stops working and fails me just in the middle of work? Well, I'll just pay for the real thing then. #PennyWisePoundFoolish

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Well, as long as it’s serving you well enough, then I don’t think you should be worried. I’ll just like you to be sure that it offers the same components as with the others. So maybe compare to be sure?

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Sometimes the things we do to save money, can hurt us or it can be used as a learning experience. I hope the plan you got continues to work well for you. Remember to do your research on everything, cause some people are just out to take your money.

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Lol, forgive me for laughing but I guess we all know it's not a new thing, most times we tend to always go for cheaper things with the thinking that it'll save us less spending but then we end up spending double because quality can never be underrated.

I'm glad it even got to work. We'll just keep our fingers crossed and hope it does work as long as you want it to

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my opinion, cutting corners when done rightly cuts cost, you just need to weigh your pros and cons properly which I didn't do. It had sounded like a good deal cutting corners I won't lie, but I absolutely regret my decision in this case.

This is so right, because in business, product and value, all Na packaging.

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While reading this @nonsowrites comes to mind. He is always saying "my time is more important". Sometimes we can't stop ourselves from trying to save that extra dollar.

It's nice it worked the next day, I hope you're able to use this one for everything you need it for.

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Well, update. It stopped working. I almost cried 😂 Never again o. I paid for the legit one this morning and finally got to work. Laslas na me lose. Lesson learnt though.

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🤣🤣 e choke. Thank God the money you paid wasn't so much sef.

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It's the time wasted that pained me in all

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Yeah. Imagine all that wasted time still no positive result

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