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The sensor that auto-flushes the toilet. Whoever invented that is a fucking genius.
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Bone-in chicken wings. I refuse to eat them, they're STILL nasty shitty dark meat, veiny and gross. I thought I was the only one who hates that shit I think we're the only two people in America. Congrats, now take your new romance and get out. Wings are awesome. No, they're not. They're tiny little bits of dark meat loaded down with veins and sinews, soaked in sauce. Congratulations on being taken in by the marketing. I wasn't taken in by anything and I don't ever remember wings being "marketed" to me. They were a menu item. I ate them and I loved them. Now, we have to talk price. I'm from Upstate NY. I can remember wings being .05-.10. Hell, lots of bars used to give them away on certain nights to sell more beer. Now that's marketing. |
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Quoted: No, they're not. They're tiny little bits of dark meat loaded down with veins and sinews, soaked in sauce. Congratulations on being taken in by the marketing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Bone-in chicken wings. I refuse to eat them, they're STILL nasty shitty dark meat, veiny and gross. I thought I was the only one who hates that shit I think we're the only two people in America. Congrats, now take your new romance and get out. Wings are awesome. No, they're not. They're tiny little bits of dark meat loaded down with veins and sinews, soaked in sauce. Congratulations on being taken in by the marketing. I don't think anything can touch diamonds. |
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How do marketing departments get you to spend significantly more money on some mundane item that you've bought - cheaply - for many years but now you're happy to spend 10 times more for the same thing. Bottled water is the best example, but too obvious. Several others come to mind quickly but I'll leave those for someone else. My topic to start with is AC/Furnace filters. Many decades we went along, happily buying spun fiberglass filters for less than a buck each. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/386953/file-2080970416-jpg/images_filter_industry_Misc/Filter-Flat.jpg?t=1426171658345 Then, the filter manufacturers got smart. Why should they get $0.88/filter when they can charge $10, $20, even $50 for a single filter? You convince the consumer that the filter actually keeps their house clean and bingo - people now shell out ten times as much for air filters. I mean, who wouldn't want to have this beauty in their AC/Furnace? "The unique filter construction of Honeywell ALLERGEN PLUS requires less energy for lower energy cost. Its electrostatic charge and larger surface area of pleated material improves the efficiency of its dust-holding capacity. Housed in a recyclable clay-coated moisture resistant frame, this filter captures particles as small as 1 micron. In comparison, a human hair is approximately 150 microns in size. The Honeywell is effective against the following contaminants: microscopic allergens, bacteria, disintegrated feces, insecticide dust, lead dust, mold spores, pollen, pet dander, nuisance dust, and dust mite debris. The leader in the air filtration, Flanders provides air filtration products for pharmaceutical laboratories, the space programs, nuclear containment, and commercial industries." There's only one slight problem: THESE FILTERS DO NOT FILTER THE AIR FOR YOUR HOUSE. They are supposed to keep contaminants off of your evap coils. That's it. It's actually worse than that: These highly-restrictive filters choke off air flow through your system. I've pulled the cover off of my 20 year old evap coils and they were perfectly clean, even though all I've ever used was spun glass filters. Go into Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. and you'll find that you can't even find the cheap filters anymore. Marketing genius! View Quote And the real genius is in the way it is written. Nowhere in that blurb do they say that these filters will filter the air for your home, not once. They imply it but they don't specifically state that it filters the air for the home, they don't say it is only for the evap coils. So, without them saying it, the consumer is lead to believe that it does filter the air in the home and based on their own perception they buy the more expensive filter, but legally the filter manufacturer has not mislead anyone because they don't claim it filters the air for the house. They bombard the average Joe shopper with all the technical stuff, even mention it helps against disintegrated feces and tell the buyer what it is made out of and appeal to the environmentally conscience with the recyclable clay frame and all this cool stuff about it being used in NASA and nuclear facilities and this may be true and is very impressive, so the buyer gets to read about how good it is, how many important places use it but they never tell you it does nothing for the air inside your house that you breath. Very clever. |
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Razors.
DE were fine, but too cheap. Make the whole thing disposable or even better, add un-needed blades. |
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Kids' sports.
Now little Jimmy has to play travel ball to play HS ball so he can go to a community college after all that useless ball playing and no studying. |
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I buy the spun glass ones off Grainger all the time for work. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do marketing departments get you to spend significantly more money on some mundane item that you've bought - cheaply - for many years but now you're happy to spend 10 times more for the same thing. Bottled water is the best example, but too obvious. Several others come to mind quickly but I'll leave those for someone else. My topic to start with is AC/Furnace filters. Many decades we went along, happily buying spun fiberglass filters for less than a buck each. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/386953/file-2080970416-jpg/images_filter_industry_Misc/Filter-Flat.jpg?t=1426171658345 Then, the filter manufacturers got smart. Why should they get $0.88/filter when they can charge $10, $20, even $50 for a single filter? You convince the consumer that the filter actually keeps their house clean and bingo - people now shell out ten times as much for air filters. I mean, who wouldn't want to have this beauty in their AC/Furnace? "The unique filter construction of Honeywell ALLERGEN PLUS requires less energy for lower energy cost. Its electrostatic charge and larger surface area of pleated material improves the efficiency of its dust-holding capacity. Housed in a recyclable clay-coated moisture resistant frame, this filter captures particles as small as 1 micron. In comparison, a human hair is approximately 150 microns in size. The Honeywell is effective against the following contaminants: microscopic allergens, bacteria, disintegrated feces, insecticide dust, lead dust, mold spores, pollen, pet dander, nuisance dust, and dust mite debris. The leader in the air filtration, Flanders provides air filtration products for pharmaceutical laboratories, the space programs, nuclear containment, and commercial industries." There's only one slight problem: THESE FILTERS DO NOT FILTER THE AIR FOR YOUR HOUSE. They are supposed to keep contaminants off of your evap coils. That's it. It's actually worse than that: These highly-restrictive filters choke off air flow through your system. I've pulled the cover off of my 20 year old evap coils and they were perfectly clean, even though all I've ever used was spun glass filters. Go into Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. and you'll find that you can't even find the cheap filters anymore. Marketing genius! I buy the spun glass ones off Grainger all the time for work. I use the metal ones with the foam inside, wash them out with the hose. I've never actually "replaced" one. |
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Bone-in chicken wings. I refuse to eat them, they're STILL nasty shitty dark meat, veiny and gross. I thought I was the only one who hates that shit Add me to the list. Bone-in chicken in general is gross. |
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Hooters. the food is sub par at best, if it wasn't for the tight clothes that place would have good bankrupt years ago.
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Bone-in chicken wings. I refuse to eat them, they're STILL nasty shitty dark meat, veiny and gross. I thought I was the only one who hates that shit Add me to the list. Bone-in chicken in general is gross. I understand the wings deal because they were literally scraps that were thrown away (couldn't be sold) back in the day, but whole/half chicken? Half a chicken, a grill and a brick and its on. |
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Most of the things we consider "Pop" culture are nothing but marketing fads. Hell.. all of American Life today is marketing driven.
Many of the albums playing on the radio are shit backed with marketing. Your $5 a cup coffee, marketing BS. That Axe spray that covers your BO is BS. The $60,000 Car/Truck you drive doesn't make you attractive, its BS. The $800K McMansion doesn't make you a god either. BS. Your vitamin water and organic soy burger with a side of pomegranate? BS... All marketing BS. Thats why you need to take my course, "How to not be marketed to". After the free webinar, you can sign up for just $9,999.97. |
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Oldest name in American firearms Made in Croatia (or Brazil, Greece, Korea) |
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And the real genius is in the way it is written. Nowhere in that blurb do they say that these filters will filter the air for your home, not once. They imply it but they don't specifically state that it filters the air for the home, they don't say it is only for the evap coils. So, without them saying it, the consumer is lead to believe that it does filter the air in the home and based on their own perception they buy the more expensive filter, but legally the filter manufacturer has not mislead anyone because they don't claim it filters the air for the house. They bombard the average Joe shopper with all the technical stuff, even mention it helps against disintegrated feces and tell the buyer what it is made out of and appeal to the environmentally conscience with the recyclable clay frame and all this cool stuff about it being used in NASA and nuclear facilities and this may be true and is very impressive, so the buyer gets to read about how good it is, how many important places use it but they never tell you it does nothing for the air inside your house that you breath. Very clever. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do marketing departments get you to spend significantly more money on some mundane item that you've bought - cheaply - for many years but now you're happy to spend 10 times more for the same thing. Bottled water is the best example, but too obvious. Several others come to mind quickly but I'll leave those for someone else. My topic to start with is AC/Furnace filters. Many decades we went along, happily buying spun fiberglass filters for less than a buck each. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/386953/file-2080970416-jpg/images_filter_industry_Misc/Filter-Flat.jpg?t=1426171658345 Then, the filter manufacturers got smart. Why should they get $0.88/filter when they can charge $10, $20, even $50 for a single filter? You convince the consumer that the filter actually keeps their house clean and bingo - people now shell out ten times as much for air filters. I mean, who wouldn't want to have this beauty in their AC/Furnace? "The unique filter construction of Honeywell ALLERGEN PLUS requires less energy for lower energy cost. Its electrostatic charge and larger surface area of pleated material improves the efficiency of its dust-holding capacity. Housed in a recyclable clay-coated moisture resistant frame, this filter captures particles as small as 1 micron. In comparison, a human hair is approximately 150 microns in size. The Honeywell is effective against the following contaminants: microscopic allergens, bacteria, disintegrated feces, insecticide dust, lead dust, mold spores, pollen, pet dander, nuisance dust, and dust mite debris. The leader in the air filtration, Flanders provides air filtration products for pharmaceutical laboratories, the space programs, nuclear containment, and commercial industries." There's only one slight problem: THESE FILTERS DO NOT FILTER THE AIR FOR YOUR HOUSE. They are supposed to keep contaminants off of your evap coils. That's it. It's actually worse than that: These highly-restrictive filters choke off air flow through your system. I've pulled the cover off of my 20 year old evap coils and they were perfectly clean, even though all I've ever used was spun glass filters. Go into Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. and you'll find that you can't even find the cheap filters anymore. Marketing genius! And the real genius is in the way it is written. Nowhere in that blurb do they say that these filters will filter the air for your home, not once. They imply it but they don't specifically state that it filters the air for the home, they don't say it is only for the evap coils. So, without them saying it, the consumer is lead to believe that it does filter the air in the home and based on their own perception they buy the more expensive filter, but legally the filter manufacturer has not mislead anyone because they don't claim it filters the air for the house. They bombard the average Joe shopper with all the technical stuff, even mention it helps against disintegrated feces and tell the buyer what it is made out of and appeal to the environmentally conscience with the recyclable clay frame and all this cool stuff about it being used in NASA and nuclear facilities and this may be true and is very impressive, so the buyer gets to read about how good it is, how many important places use it but they never tell you it does nothing for the air inside your house that you breath. Very clever. My AC/furnace filters are the first thing air comes into contact with as it enters the unit from the return air duct. This same air is then heated or cooled, and pushed by the fan through the outlet ducts into the house. The filters absolutely filter the air circulating in the house. ETA: I still use the cheapies, though. I live on a dirt road and they get crudded up quick. |
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Sun glasses like Oakleys and Maui Jims. Sure they're good, but how much does it take to make a set?
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Most of the things we consider "Pop" culture are nothing but marketing fads. Hell.. all of American Life today is marketing driven. Many of the albums playing on the radio are shit backed with marketing. Your $5 a cup coffee, marketing BS. That Axe spray that covers your BO is BS. The $60,000 Car/Truck you drive doesn't make you attractive, its BS. The $800K McMansion doesn't make you a god either. BS. Your vitamin water and organic soy burger with a side of pomegranate? BS... All marketing BS. Thats why you need to take my course, "How to not be marketed to". After the free webinar, you can sign up for just $9,999.97. View Quote $5 Coffee - Yup, BS Body spray - Covering my BO helps me get laid (girls like good smelling guys), excellent value $60k vehicle - Girls love sexy cars, so it goes make some more attractive, just because we don't like it doesn't make it untrue $800k home - Works the same as the car...panty dropper Healthy food - Debatable, I feel better eating cleaner food |
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I didn't read the entire thread, but my vote goes to all the 100$+ pairs of basketball shoes that are marketed to the urban youths of the world. So good, you have to rob and kill to get them sometimes.
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There's only one slight problem: THESE FILTERS DO NOT FILTER THE AIR FOR YOUR HOUSE. They are supposed to keep contaminants off of your evap coils. That's it. It's actually worse than that: These highly-restrictive filters choke off air flow through your system. I've pulled the cover off of my 20 year old evap coils and they were perfectly clean, even though all I've ever used was spun glass filters. Go into Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. and you'll find that you can't even find the cheap filters anymore. Marketing genius! [/span] View Quote I bought one expensive high micron filter... it clogged up in a week or two I keep a clean house and the $1 filters dont even look dirty after 2 months even so I dont know where I stand I would argue that they are filtering more crap out of my house but at the cost of possibly harming the HVAC system I bought a standalone system afterwards though so i "got both" |
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Quoted: Diamonds Not exactly on point to your question, but for the thread title, this is the greatest of all time View Quote This is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on MANkind for sure. The current "chocolate" diamonds are a perfect example. "Buy clarity!" Oh wait - someone found a large amount of crap diamonds, so let's have a new ad campaign that makes these pieces of crap desirable. |
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One more: FRONT LOADING WASHERS.
We had top-loading washers forever. They worked, but they were boring and you could score one for about $349. But wait! Let's make everyone believe front-loading washer are "Euro" and therefore better. Charge $1,000+ for these POS and make sure they don't last long and leak. |
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No, they're not. They're tiny little bits of dark meat loaded down with veins and sinews, soaked in sauce. Congratulations on being taken in by the marketing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Bone-in chicken wings. I refuse to eat them, they're STILL nasty shitty dark meat, veiny and gross. I thought I was the only one who hates that shit I think we're the only two people in America. Congrats, now take your new romance and get out. Wings are awesome. No, they're not. They're tiny little bits of dark meat loaded down with veins and sinews, soaked in sauce. Congratulations on being taken in by the marketing. I was never taken in by the marketing. I was eating them when they were sold for 5 cents each at the bars because I like them. |
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... Seriously: Prescription eyeglasses
They were much, much cheaper to aquire as a young adult. WTF happened? That, and inexpensive cars that regularly got 52+ MPG |
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One more: FRONT LOADING WASHERS. We had top-loading washers forever. They worked, but they were boring and you could score one for about $349. But wait! Let's make everyone believe front-loading washer are "Euro" and therefore better. Charge $1,000+ for these POS and make sure they don't last long and leak. View Quote Totally with you on this one. |
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I buy the spun glass ones off Grainger all the time for work. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How do marketing departments get you to spend significantly more money on some mundane item that you've bought - cheaply - for many years but now you're happy to spend 10 times more for the same thing. Bottled water is the best example, but too obvious. Several others come to mind quickly but I'll leave those for someone else. My topic to start with is AC/Furnace filters. Many decades we went along, happily buying spun fiberglass filters for less than a buck each. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/386953/file-2080970416-jpg/images_filter_industry_Misc/Filter-Flat.jpg?t=1426171658345 Then, the filter manufacturers got smart. Why should they get $0.88/filter when they can charge $10, $20, even $50 for a single filter? You convince the consumer that the filter actually keeps their house clean and bingo - people now shell out ten times as much for air filters. I mean, who wouldn't want to have this beauty in their AC/Furnace? "The unique filter construction of Honeywell ALLERGEN PLUS requires less energy for lower energy cost. Its electrostatic charge and larger surface area of pleated material improves the efficiency of its dust-holding capacity. Housed in a recyclable clay-coated moisture resistant frame, this filter captures particles as small as 1 micron. In comparison, a human hair is approximately 150 microns in size. The Honeywell is effective against the following contaminants: microscopic allergens, bacteria, disintegrated feces, insecticide dust, lead dust, mold spores, pollen, pet dander, nuisance dust, and dust mite debris. The leader in the air filtration, Flanders provides air filtration products for pharmaceutical laboratories, the space programs, nuclear containment, and commercial industries." There's only one slight problem: THESE FILTERS DO NOT FILTER THE AIR FOR YOUR HOUSE. They are supposed to keep contaminants off of your evap coils. That's it. It's actually worse than that: These highly-restrictive filters choke off air flow through your system. I've pulled the cover off of my 20 year old evap coils and they were perfectly clean, even though all I've ever used was spun glass filters. Go into Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc. and you'll find that you can't even find the cheap filters anymore. Marketing genius! I buy the spun glass ones off Grainger all the time for work. And they're about a buck at the farm supply store. |
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The person who convinced women that they should pole dance for fitness. Or maybe the person that convinced women that yoga pants are appropriate daily wear.
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One more: FRONT LOADING WASHERS. We had top-loading washers forever. They worked, but they were boring and you could score one for about $349. But wait! Let's make everyone believe front-loading washer are "Euro" and therefore better. Charge $1,000+ for these POS and make sure they don't last long and leak. View Quote lol yeah they are euro though. in Germany the kitchen was the laundry room in the older houses. I'm going to say Bacon its good but its not worth the hype. |
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Those heavily marketed electric heaters in fancy cabinets that sell for $300 and are identical to a $50 basic electric heater inside. Operates for only pennies a day!
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Some of the large multi level marketing companies, there are several that reached over a billion dollars, Mona Vie being one of them. Take some berry and make a drink out of it.... MARKET the crap out of it = profit. A guy around the corner from me has made over 20M dollars with them. Its all marketing and hype.
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