and then Tim decides to drop the price to $47. Seems like Anonymous here was just expressing what a lot of others thought. $97 feels like a lot for a book that you can’t put a dollar value on, so a lot of interested people were turned off by the price tag.

tl;dr: How to Be Rich and Happy now costs only $47. Knock yourself out!

The book preaches a pretty selfish world view. I think that’s really awesome. Reminds me of reading “The Fountainhead”.

I think they authors are good at explaining things but there are too many anecdotes about someone’s personal story for my taste (most of them are pretty similar).

Alas the price helped grabbing my attention while I read. Had I gotten the book from thePirateBay I’d probably not given each idea as much thought as I did, which do make the ideas presented within more helpful. Sadly it also makes me more likely to defend them afterwards. Vlad’s got an interesting article on the phenomena; “The Curse of Being Free”.

Currently it would be a good idea to see whether someone has actually gotten the return money back – i think it might be a ’scam’ in the way that the person for whom it fails will often kind of either assume that it is his fault, and try further , or will refuse to admit failure, in both cases returning nothing. So the return book rate will be a small percentage of failure rates, and that is why they can afford such a scheme, except that it is a scam.

That’s exactly the kind of crap justification you see from people trying to sell products WAY over cost. Look up the marketing blurbs for all the get rich quick schemes you see on late night commercials and this is exactly the line they feed you. I don’t believe Vlad is in on any kind of scam and that he genuinely thinks there’s good advice in the book. And based on his blog, I do believe there’s probably some good advice in it. However, I also believe the author of this book is seriously out of his mind charging that much. I don’t care how much “value” you think you can get out of it, that’s an outrageous cost.

Glad you liked the book!

I like the bits where it explained old concepts I already sort of understood in a new way that just made them really click. Like the Rich and Happy Matrix, or calculating the Rich and Happy Return on things. (Some time ago I read a programmer arguing that you really should spend that extra money in a high-quality chair if you spend a lot of time at your computer. I sort of intuitively knew he was right, but the Rich and Happy Return calculations finally got me to understand why.)

As a book it’s amazing. Really top notch. There was little new content for me, but that’s because I’ve read so many like books. It’s the best book for marshaling all the content together.

At least I now know someone has written the book I wanted to write!

Awesome! Let me know what you think of the book once you get through it

It’s not about how much it costs to make… it’s about how much value it brings to you.

Let’s say you bought a book on investment advice that brought you $10,000 in the first year. Then paying $5,000 for it (even if it was just 20 pages long) would be a good idea.

How much would How to Be Rich and Happy worth to you? If you do all the exercises that come every few chapters, you will get far more value than $97. Thus the price is worth it. If you’re hoping a book will magically make you rich and happy without you doing anything, then no, it won’t be worth $97 to you. On the positive note, the exercises are pretty easy if you’re serious about becoming Rich and Happy.

I hope that makes sense.