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> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them.
by parineum 8mo ago
> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.
People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them.
Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.
- bdangubic 8mo ago> Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't. That is exactly what sales do. most sales are made sellings things to people they don’t want, until sales does what sales does
- dmarcos 8mo agoSo people spent 60k on a cybertruck they don’t want? Do you believe that?
- bdangubic 8mo agolook around your house and see how much shit you got that you really want(ed). great salesman (and elon is the best in the history of the civilization) will sell you shit you never thought you wanted :)
- dmarcos 8mo agoThe motivation to buy something is always because you want it. That a product doesn’t meet your needs or expectations later is a different story. What’s your evidence to claim that people spending 60k in a cybertruck don’t want it? What’s your evidence to make a similar claim or the opposite for any other purchase? Without evidence it feels you are making baseless claims about peoples motivations.
- bdangubic 8mo ago> The motivation to buy something is always because you want it salesman make you want stuff you didn’t know you want it but now you do. entire world economy is built on this
- dmarcos 8mo agoIs it still your claim that people spending 60k on Cybertruck don’t want it? How do you know? Given the lack evidence feels like motivated thinking. You don’t like Elon and can’t accept that tons of people actually like him and his products.
- sillyfluke 8mo agoliterally almost everything I have bought on sale is something I wasn't looking to buy at that moment in time.
- parineum 8mo agoHow many of those things cost more than 10,000 dollars?
- sillyfluke 8mo agoI think you might be slightly misinformed on how many 10,000+ dollar purchases the average person makes in their lifetime to make sweeping statements of that nature. Advertizing sales on medical procedures or daycare could have the opposite effect I would imagine