Mom's PC has gradually gotten slower and slower over time - like it takes 8 minutes to boot slow, cpu max load for no reason slow. Dad poked at it for a while and concluded that a new computer was necessary. (I'm still running Tronscript on the thing rn)

Instead of shopping in depth he goes to dell.com, picks a core i5 machine sight unseen, adds the expensive office 2016 package and is done in like 15 minutes, paying over $800. "It's discounted," he says.