On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 2:24:55 PM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 11/27/2015 05:13 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
Your purchase certainly qualifies as a great deal, but since your intent is to keep it for
your own use, the $85 spent on the battery and charger is not really an investment.

If the $85 was spent to avoid future outlays of $170 to third party
services to charge batteries, is it an investment?

Not as I see it. A cost saving measure, yes, but an investment? I think not. The object
purchased (in this example) is not going to produce income or increase in value. Well,
I guess eventually it might become a collector's item or a museum piece, but that is not
why the battery and charger were purchased.

A Beanie Baby purchased for a kid to play with is a toy. A Beanie Baby purchased to be
stored in its original package to be sold later at (hopefully) a higher price is an investment.