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Sometimes marketing tells me about a product that I didn't know existed, or tells me about a superior product to the one I'm currently buying.
by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Sometimes marketing tells me about a product that I didn't know existed, or tells me about a superior product to the one I'm currently buying.
- pessimizer 5y agoAnd then you buy it, and the functionality that it claimed was completely misleading or doesn't work, and it was actually worse than the product you were previously buying. Then you go back to the product you were previously buying, and it doesn't work any more because they had to cut costs to spend more on marketing.
- qPM9l3XJrF 5y agoI rarely buy a product without reading the reviews. In the long run, selling bad products is usually not a good way to make money. (Unless the government is subsidizing your industry, e.g. for-profit colleges.) And competence of advertising usually correlates with product quality. That's why you're less likely to enter your credit card details in a website that looks like it was designed in 1998. Quality ads serve as an honest signal that the company is making enough money to pay for them. If they're making money, that means people are buying the product, and if they're buying the product, it probably isn't terrible.
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