I think you're on the right track with this. While the "value" of paying $50,000 per night for a hotel room is subjective, if it is consistent with the going rate or "market value," then it should qualify.
Paying a single staff member $30M for an hour's work is not within the acceptable norm, which in your example should be disqualifying.
If a designer handbag has a retail price of $5k, then that is the value in terms of retail pricing. A subjective opinion may be that it's not worth it and therefore not value for the money is not at issue. If others are paying the same price, then that's the value.
It makes for an interesting discussion.
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strntz (12669)
9 months ago
If a designer handbag has a retail price of $5k, then that is the value in terms of retail pricing. A subjective opinion may be that it's not worth it and therefore not value for the money is not at issue. If others are paying the same price, then that's the value.
Nice observation - a lot of things to me are not worth the money yet people pay for goods and services all the time that I would never.
The main point was that at the end of 30 days, he must have no assets for having spent the money.
Maybe he could have hired Sinatra to play a concert at his suite every day for a million bucks a pop?
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hurricane (1963)
9 months ago
On the grounds of value for money, the stamp should've disqualified him. As he could've posted a letter for a lot less money.
It's just a movie. Got to go with it.
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strntz (12669)
9 months ago
Actually, the stamp was brilliant. He paid going rate for the stamp and used it as a stamp.
If he paid a million for a stamp that was worth nothing, that would have disqualified him.
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hurricane (1963)
9 months ago
Depends how you define "value for money". Spending $10k to post a letter isn't technically.
But, as you say, he pais the going rate.
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strntz (12669)
9 months ago
Depends how you define "value for money".
Me? I'm a cheap bastard and proud of it. To me, buying a brand new car is getting terrible value for my money, so I absolutely understand the difficulty in assigning "value for money" when it came to the difficulty of writing this script. Overall, I think they did a great job. Spending $30 million and having zero assets to show for it is very difficult!
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UncleRuckis (2631)
9 months ago
He also could have eaten steaks at applebees instead of the stupidly fancy and expensive restaurants he was at, but that wouldn't disqualify him either.
he paid what the stamp was worth, then used it for it's intended purpose. had he destroyed the thing, he'd have been in violation. That was indeed clever as hell!
If I'm him, I'm buying every rare bottle of alcohol I can find and then drinking with the friends like there's no tomorrow.
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