Originally Posted by
opus17
I'm not going to pay $5000 for a car with a manual transmission!
I wouldn't pay ANY money for a car with an automatic transmission. Real cars, especially sports cars, don't have automatics. If you can't drive a manual, you shouldn't think about a Porsche anyway.
Originally Posted by sdcarver
Buy it for $5,000 and then sell it for $40,000 at least.
I believe last year the small print said that you had to sign a contract saying you'd keep it for at least six months. You could still profit handsomely notwithstanding the depreciation, of course. Bear in mind, however, than on ANY of the items on the My Wishlist promo you have to pay federal (and possibly state) income tax on the difference between what you paid and the list price—the savings is considered "imputed income" because the theory is that you would have spent the rest of the amount had you purchased the product through ordinary channels. (I know, it's ludicrous to some degree because I would happily buy a Porsche for $5000 but have little interest in doing so for $50,000, but it's the way the tax law works.) So it's not a straight-out profit insofar as you have to factor in the tax liability, but still, you could do pretty well.