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    <title>topic Re: How can you afford it? in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/743193#M216149</link>
    <description>&lt;DIV class="block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title"&gt;&lt;DIV class="block-inner clearfix"&gt;&lt;DIV class="content clearfix"&gt;&lt;DIV class="ds-1col node node-commentary view-mode-bs_full node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-harrisonpoliteseurekareportcomau odd clearfix clearfix jquery-once-2-processed"&gt;&lt;DIV class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"&gt;&lt;DIV class="field-items"&gt;&lt;DIV class="field-item even jquery-once-3-processed"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Where are the competition models?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It’s easy to shout ‘competition’ from a great political or academic height, but it’s much more difficult to give it a serious commercial foundation. Perhaps this is why those advocating this level of competition do not come up with ideas or suggestions to show how it could work.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If we follow an open infrastructure competition policy we will have to find another solution for the other 50 per cent of the population – assuming that both Professor Hilmer and Minister Turnbull agree that broadband access has to be a universal service.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In the future more essential services such as healthcare, education, government services, smart energy services and business services will be delivered over that infrastructure, with the assistance of cloud computing, M2M and Big Data, to everybody in the country – this cannot just be given to the 50 per cent who will be serviced by the commercial models.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Furthermore they will have to come up with good reasons for investors to invest – beyond cherry-picking – in competing fixed line infrastructure, as current HFC and copper infrastructure will all eventually end up in vanilla fibre networks, with no economically-viable business model for two or more of those competing FttP networks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So far there are no investors chasing investment models based on a level of infrastructure competition such as this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In all reality the final outcome of fixed line telecoms will be FttP, and that will be a utility – be it in five, 10 or 20 years. Investors base their fixed infrastructure plans on 20- to 30-year investment cycles and will therefore be wary of these developments, as they can very easily ruin their investment.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Competition policy should be focused on the services, not the infrastructure&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But to those advocating competition, the real value – rather than the political or dogmatic value – is that for those using it the infrastructure itself is not important. They are interested in the services that are delivered over it, and this is where competition policies should be focused.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now, it can be argued that infrastructure development can be done differently – not through cross-subsidies. I have no issue with that but if community leaders argue for infrastructure-based competition they will, at the same time, have to indicate:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;how to service the non-commercial parts of the country; and&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;how to safeguard very expensive competitive infrastructure investments from becoming write-offs – as happened in the case of the Australian HFC debacle.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;So far – as with all other infrastructure in this country, whether electricity, water, roads, hospitals or schools – we use cross-subsidy models to provide a universal service.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It's easy to argue for infrastructure-based competition, but it is not as easy to turn that into a social economic policy. Ignoring the other half of the country where this level of infrastructure competition will not work without addressing the perilous investment issues that are involved in such a competition model.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;This is an&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.buddeblog.com.au/"&gt;edited version of a post&amp;nbsp;&lt;/A&gt;originally published on October 8.&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;Paul Budde&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the managing director of&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.budde.com.au/"&gt;BuddeComm&lt;/A&gt;, an independent telecommunications research and consultancy company, which includes 45 national and international researchers in 15 countries.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV class="block block-adtoma-fusion block-btyb-pos2 block-adtoma-fusion-btyb-pos2 even block-without-title"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV class="block-inner clearfix"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/10/11/technology/nbn-competition-conundrum?utm_source=exact&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_content=456161&amp;amp;utm_campaign=ts_daily&amp;amp;modapt"&gt;http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/10/11/technology/nbn-competition-conundrum?utm_source=exact&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_content=456161&amp;amp;utm_campaign=ts_daily&amp;amp;modapt&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:26:44 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>freakiness</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-10-11T00:26:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734529#M214270</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;After being away several months, I notice many of the same faces are still spending all day posting, despite their assurances that they work. One even spent a whole day waiting until 5.30 pm before posting just to prove she is employed!!! (only people unemployed or on benefits for years would assume the average work day is still from Nine-to-Five LOL!)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My question is, how do you afford to&amp;nbsp;be here so much? Do you live off savings, an inheritance, divorce settlement, or do you simply chat from a library or a second hand notebook on limited internet usage?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To get a decent computer costs at least $2000 and without good internet connection, chatting on a forum isn't even worth it, so are these regulars going into debt over the boards? Would a bank even loan or credit them enough to supplement their activites and time usage here?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It's all very puzzling...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734529#M214270</guid>
      <dc:creator>how.about.another.slice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:49:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734549#M214276</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Oh dear &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some one is bored&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Registered&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Last Visited&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Total Messages Posted&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;1&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:55:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734549#M214276</guid>
      <dc:creator>poddster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:55:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734559#M214278</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I have a rich husband.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734559#M214278</guid>
      <dc:creator>crystal**flake</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:56:54Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734565#M214280</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Unusual hobby you have (bothering to note that much detail about other posters) &amp;nbsp;a bit creepy and obsessive really.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a laptop, netbook, smart phone, that I can post from. None of those cost anywhere near $2000...what decade are you living in?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I pretend to work, but live on Govt benefits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Way to go Crystal!!! I don't think the OP factored that into her/his choices...that is any sort of partner that has paid work out side the home and one that doesn't&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:01:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734565#M214280</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:01:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734567#M214281</link>
      <description>Lol, me too</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:59:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734567#M214281</guid>
      <dc:creator>debra9275</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T09:59:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734573#M214283</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;And some of us with high I.Q.s come to see how the other 90% interact with their peers &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734573#M214283</guid>
      <dc:creator>poddster</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:00:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734577#M214284</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I only come here when the adds are on tele&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:01:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734577#M214284</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:01:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734581#M214285</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I am not rich, but this is Cheap entertainment hahaha&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:02:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734581#M214285</guid>
      <dc:creator>lionrose.7</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:02:16Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734583#M214286</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;Debra,I read your post as replying to Am3 at first&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734583#M214286</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:02:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734593#M214290</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;$10 p.w. for internet connection.. do you have to be rich to afford that? Cheaper than a pack of cigarettes I guess?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:04:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734593#M214290</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:04:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734597#M214292</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Should have asked&amp;nbsp;&lt;A target="_self" href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Are-we-getting-more-stupid/m-p/732787#U732787"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734597#M214292</guid>
      <dc:creator>freakiness</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:05:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734605#M214294</link>
      <description>Eeek! I just posted a similar theory to poddy's on the smart thread. I think I am spending too much time here.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I've been on LSL. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734605#M214294</guid>
      <dc:creator>*elizabeths-mum*</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:07:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734607#M214295</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;@am*3 wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I pretend to work, but live on Govt benefits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thought so.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:07:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734607#M214295</guid>
      <dc:creator>how.about.another.slice</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:07:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734613#M214297</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Well, I work from home but really, my husband keeps me in the manner I have become accustomed to.............my pc is in my sewing room................ I do sometimes use my mobile device but rarely................&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;what about you, OP?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:08:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734613#M214297</guid>
      <dc:creator>azureline**</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:08:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734617#M214299</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I also have a comfy feux leather computer chair I love to sit on&amp;nbsp;&lt;img id="smileylol" class="emoticon emoticon-smileylol" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-lol.png" alt="Smiley LOL" title="Smiley LOL" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:09:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734617#M214299</guid>
      <dc:creator>trustmee-2013</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:09:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734633#M214412</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Sometimes we have to search into things to unearth lies.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:13:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734633#M214412</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:13:52Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734639#M214413</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Why would anyone need a $2000 computer to post on a forum? LOL LOL LOL.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:14:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734639#M214413</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:14:50Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734641#M214414</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;LOL, you must be easily pleased if you think less than&amp;nbsp;$2000 buys you a great computer!&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tell us about your set up?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;mine (quad core) cost me a grand and the specs are big everything&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:14:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734641#M214414</guid>
      <dc:creator>joz*garage</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:14:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734651#M214415</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/161335"&gt;@joz*garage&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;LOL, you must be easily pleased if you think less than&amp;nbsp;$2000 buys you a great computer!&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;tell us about your set up?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;mine (quad core) cost me a grand and the specs are big everything&lt;/P&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;They are living in the early 2000's I think.. not many people pay $2000 for computer/laptop these days.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:16:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734651#M214415</guid>
      <dc:creator>cherry*135</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:16:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: How can you afford it?</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734653#M214312</link>
      <description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/437353"&gt;@poddster&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;P&gt;Oh dear &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some one is bored&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;TABLE&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Registered&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Date Last Visited&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;3 minutes ago &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD&gt;Total Messages Posted&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD&gt;1&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;HR /&gt;They must have got bored with their quiche id. And their toowoomba tart id, and their baby.jane.begins id, and the curse of pretoria id, and the id's that are too vulgar to repeat.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;IMG align="middle" border="0" title="troll" alt="troll" src="https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9259iD6BAA1D2D7411EA6/image-size/small?v=mpbl-1&amp;amp;px=-1" /&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:16:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/How-can-you-afford-it/m-p/734653#M214312</guid>
      <dc:creator>the*scarlet*pimpernel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-10-07T10:16:35Z</dc:date>
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