Poll: Say you bought a new car, showed it to a friend and the next day....

how would you feel?

  • happy

    Votes: 101 37.3%

  • neutral

    Votes: 152 56.1%

  • unhappy

    Votes: 18 6.6%
  • Total voters
    271
I did this and my mate loved the idea. Just needed a third friend with a white Cooper S for the Italian job in his mind. :p
 
arknor said:
Maybe I'm round your house for a coffee I see you have a really nice looking kettle that catches my eye.
oh but wait, nice guuci belt where did you get it from?

whys a car different? unless they are purposely trying to 1up each other.
which is just daft
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It isn't necessarily, unless it is for you? Presumably it isn't. Perhaps some people do try to 1up each other etc..
 
So it looks like OCUK posters are more in line with the responses by firefighters than MBA grads!


Saw this posted this morning and thought it was very odd, nearly half of the MBA grads feeling upset or betrayed if a friend bought the same car! Now the study seemingly let people answer the question in their own words and sought to categorise their responses but meh... looks like OCUK is mostly not bothered and/or happy.

The thing is they've used MBAs as some sort of proxy for middle-class people but I'm not sure this is a good reflection, I'd assume OCUK is a mix of both middle class and working class but the results in here are from this very ad-hoc thread are much closer to the firefighters.

I'm wondering if this is perhaps an American thing or more likely an American and an MBA thing... what sort of person gets overly sensitive about their latest status symbol? Perhaps the sort of people who spends 100k+ on an MBA is more likely than most to do so!
 
I have friends who do this. If one buys a car, the other has to get a better car.

I couldn't care less these days tbh.
 
dacads said:
Yeah nothing special about getting the latest lease deal
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Some lease, some cash. They mostly purchase older "scene" cars. But one always has to go better than the other. It's like they're trying to prove a point on who is cooler or something along those lines. Personally I think it's all a waste of money sitting there.
 
I like it when people copy my life choices because it re-confirms that I made the right decision in the first place and also means that eventually, if their friends follow the same pattern and mimic my friend, there'll be a million of them just like me who cuss like me, who just don't give a fudge like me, who dress like me, walk talk and act like me, and just might be the next best thing, but not quite me.
 
how "the same" are we talking here?

are we talking you bought a ford focus and they bought a ford focus with a different engine/colour/trim spec etc? or ate we talking exactly the same?

funny i'm kind of going through this at the minute, bought a black volvo at the start of the year and a couple of my mates have since bought black volvos (different models granted), my reaction was to point out do we really want to look like we're some sort of swedish mafia?
 
adolf hamster said:
how "the same" are we talking here?

are we talking you bought a ford focus and they bought a ford focus with a different engine/colour/trim spec etc? or ate we talking exactly the same?

funny i'm kind of going through this at the minute, bought a black volvo at the start of the year and a couple of my mates have since bought black volvos (different models granted), my reaction was to point out do we really want to look like we're some sort of swedish mafia?
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It’s not really specified but I’m assuming same make and model, I probably shouldn’t have put “exact” in the OP.
 
Reminded me of a time, years ago, a family member purchased a car, neighbour went and bought the same; whereas now, neighbours owning the same car is not that rare.

With reference to a mate buying the same car, wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
 
Interesting we've got 7 votes for unhappy so far, I'm not sure there have been (m)any comments along those lines though, would be interested in the reasons?
 
I let my friend drive my Westfield the morning I'd registered it, by the end of the day he'd bought a blue one!

I was flattered.
 
dowie said:
... they buy the exact same car - how would you feel?

Happy: (feel good about it, happy for the friend, doesn't bother you etc..)

Neutral: (ambivalent, mixed emotions, flattered but annoyed, depends on the friend etc..)

Unhappy: (irritated, betrayed, spoils your car/less unique etc..)
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It would be impossible for them to buy the exact same car because I already owned it. I'm going to assume you meant that they bought a different car of the same model.

The only way a model of car could be unique is if there was only one of that model in existence. That's what "unique" means. So if I owned it my friend couldn't buy another one because no other one could exist. If more than 1 of something exists, it's not unique. "Less unique" is an oxymoron.

I voted neutral, but then I saw that your version of neutral isn't neutral and you've included actually neutral in with what you've called "Happy". There doesn't seem to be an option to cancel my vote because the categorisation is misleading.

I wouldn't care. They hadn't stolen my car. I would still have my car.

I might be bothered if I had misled them about the car. Maybe, for example, I was enthusing about the car and not mentioning any drawbacks to that particular model of car.

I might be bothered if I thought they were deliberately copying me for the sake of copying me. That they bought another car of the same model not because they liked it but because they wanted to copy me. That's some dodgy ground there.

But I wouldn't be bothered about someone else buying a car of the same model as the car I owned. What reason would I have to care?
 
Angilion said:
It would be impossible for them to buy the exact same car because I already owned it. I'm going to assume you meant that they bought a different car of the same model.

The only way a model of car could be unique is if there was only one of that model in existence. That's what "unique" means. So if I owned it my friend couldn't buy another one because no other one could exist. If more than 1 of something exists, it's not unique. "Less unique" is an oxymoron.

I voted neutral, but then I saw that your version of neutral isn't neutral and you've included actually neutral in with what you've called "Happy". There doesn't seem to be an option to cancel my vote because the categorisation is misleading.

I wouldn't care. They hadn't stolen my car. I would still have my car.

I might be bothered if I had misled them about the car. Maybe, for example, I was enthusing about the car and not mentioning any drawbacks to that particular model of car.

I might be bothered if I thought they were deliberately copying me for the sake of copying me. That they bought another car of the same model not because they liked it but because they wanted to copy me. That's some dodgy ground there.

But I wouldn't be bothered about someone else buying a car of the same model as the car I owned. What reason would I have to care?
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Are you autistic? On what planet do you live whereby you think the question was about buying the 'exact' same car as your neighbour?
 
Stumble Bum said:
Are you autistic? On what planet do you live whereby you think the question was about buying the 'exact' same car as your neighbour?
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That was precisely what the question was about, explicitly stated:

dowie said:
... they buy the exact same car - how would you feel? [..]
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Part of my point was that the question was itself wrong, that it already incorporated a misleading way of thinking.
 
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