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Posted by krw on October 19, 2009, 7:40 pm
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:38:00 -0700 (PDT), RicodJour
>> > If you have a really good product, people know about it, and you don't
>> > have
>> > to spend a lot on advertising. If you don't, you advertise the hell out of
>> > it. They have to sell a lot of vacuums to just break even on the
>> > advertising. Like Geico. Tons of TV ads. Nascar cars. Drag racers @
>> > $40,000 a run. If they want to drop the cost of their insurance, simply
>> > cut
>> > the ad costs. Allstate is beating them up pretty good now by just
>> > advertising prices, and not going with all the hoopla. I'm just sick of
>> > seeing the cavemen.
>> You do have a point. Advertising doesn't do anything. Sheesh^2.
>> No, it does work. Look what it did for FenFen and Hydroxycut. Dangerous
>> chemicals, and people were buying them like candy.
>Textbook logic fallacy. You said just a bit earlier that if a
>business had a good product, people would know about it and they
>wouldn't have to advertise. The diet stuff you mention worked and
>worked well - unfortunately it had some side effects. Since it worked
>well, and there is a grapevine, the products would have still sold
>with or without advertising.
>Stop Monday morning quarterbacking. It's Monday morning fer
>crissakes!
>> What would the rates at
>> Geico REALLY be like if they didn't have dragsters making $40,000 runs, and
>> $200,000 cars being totaled? I'd say it would be less. That's my point.
>Businesses are in business to give _you_ the lowest cost and not give,
>or attempt to give, the stockholders the biggest bang and/or maximize
>profits? Right - makes perfect sense.
>Businesses are about profit. Doing business with a business means you
>accept this. No one is holding a gun to your head. You don't like
>it, don't do business with that business - and don't whine about it.
>It's unseemly.
Whiners just like to whine.
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>> > have
>> > to spend a lot on advertising. If you don't, you advertise the hell out of
>> > it. They have to sell a lot of vacuums to just break even on the
>> > advertising. Like Geico. Tons of TV ads. Nascar cars. Drag racers @
>> > $40,000 a run. If they want to drop the cost of their insurance, simply
>> > cut
>> > the ad costs. Allstate is beating them up pretty good now by just
>> > advertising prices, and not going with all the hoopla. I'm just sick of
>> > seeing the cavemen.