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Adam, for your situation, what you say makes sense. I have only put 8k miles on my boxster in the last year, but that includes a roundtrip from CA to Okla. So I too don't put many miles on the car. Fortunately, I have a '91 BMW 520i that takes the brunt of my driving. Drove the damn thing from Bavaria through Poland, all the way to Ukraine and back in a weekend. Nevertheless, why pay a couple hundred dollars or even worse- euros, when that money's better spent on a hotel in Prague. I'm just saying everyone's situation is different, depending on how often you drive the car, how much $ you're willing to give away, and how mechanically inclined you are.
As for the guys that change the oil every 5k miles, I think it's absurd. It won't hurt your car, but it's unnecessary. Porsche gives its guidelines for a reason. As a corporation that has a reputation built on quality, the last thing they want is a bad rep for people's engines giving out, all in an elaborate marketing scheme because they're worried that people won't buy Porsches because of the maintenace cost. First off, new Porsche buyers spending $55,000 on a Boxster or $90,000 on a Carrera are not the type of people to fret the $200 every 15k miles. The only people that think about those things are guys like me who buy the used Porsche, from whom Porsche doesn't get a dime, because I bought the car from someone else. In that case it would be in Porsche's interest to actually say that the oil needs to be changed more frequently, because they would only be making money off of us used car guys in the maintenance and oil changes.
Porsche's not swindling us, they know their cars. The thing's solid. You get what you pay for.
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