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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamoni" data-source="post: 1007257" data-attributes="member: 12680">I agree that that is normally true.  But the question lies with why would you ever rely on someone's motivation to determine the quality of a product when you had the product right before you?Look at the product.  If it is good, it is good.  No matter what the motivation was.  If it is bad, it is bad.  Again, irregardless of the motivation.It is sometimes interesting to know what someone's primary motivation was.  Then you can speculate with thoughts like: "I wonder how much better it would have been if their financial situation didn't force them to do it"  or "No wonder why the product wasn't that great, they obviously put no thought into it".  The problem is when you use a guess and base your opinions off of those speculations that you run into trouble.We have heard enough about the money idea.  I love 3.5 edition, but since this thread is about Monte's review and not just what we like about 3.5 edition, I would have to agree that Monte way overemphasized the money issue.  It made me wonder how he was actually saying to buy it at the end when all throughout the article he was saying that it was not at all worth the money.  The other thing is that it was always repeated as $90.00.  Really, if you spend $90.00 on the three books, you are not that smart, or you like throwing money away.  Everyone I know spent just over $50.00  If you think there is no difference between the two prices, then please share some of your money with me because obviously you are making much more than I am.</blockquote>

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