Two sentences on cheapest option and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.
What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.
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Why the cheapest option is often not the cheapest
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Coming back to post #6, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
The reason cheapest option is hard to answer is that the obvious measurement and the relevant quantity are not the same thing, and substituting one for the other is silent.
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v.okonkwo, post #3: I had written a reply contradicting the opening post and deleted it. Here is what survived. The cost of an independent submission is worth stating in these threads, because it is the main reason people do not do it. Go to post
Where I part company with post #8, and it is a narrow parting.
Nothing here is financial advice and none of it is a route to a transaction.
f.espinoza, post #14: Filing a mild objection to the consensus on cheapest option. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Go to post
Cost per week at a maintenance dose is the figure most people actually want and least often calculate.
Written from notes rather than memory, which is why the numbers are specific.
y.mensah, post #21: I read post #18 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. Cheapest option is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for. Go to post
For anyone finding this later: the short answer on cheapest option is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing.
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