Posted on 11/30/2018 7:34:37 AM PST by rickmichaels
Hysterical!
Well, consumers, there's you're problem. You're looking for advice from someone paid to sucker you.
Honestly, most of the time you’re paying for Brand names, not quality of construction. There’s just a few brand names I hold in high esteem only because they actually deliver quality of construction.
Huh?
“We scammed people with cheap goods” is good advertising?
The indisputable and beguiling power of branding and marketing. An object lesson from the modern age.
DUPED....LOL
Yes, hysterical.
I have no sympathy for utter inexcusable ignorance in consumers. Who pay’s even half of that for shoes?
There are certain brands that I know which are worth more than the average price (Older Florsheim, Allen Edmonds, etc), but unless you are keyed in, you deserve the soaking you get.
That’s what I was wondering.
Doesn’t surprise me they were able to pull the wool over their eyes with a little upscale marketing and a fancy store. Also, shoes are like eye glasses, furniture and jewelry...the markup is obscene.
PT Barnum was right.
“A fool and his money are soon parted.” That’s what they say, anyway.
“PALESSI”
That’s hilarious. lol
Some people are born just to be customers.
From the article:
The shoppers got their money back, but were allowed to keep the shoes.
They weren't scammed at all. Payless convinced them brilliantly. That was the whole point of the exercise.
I have huge feet and circulatory issues. I will pay through the nose for well-made, well-fitting footwear that I’ll wear for years, style be damned.
“DUPED”
The same people that voted for obama and his ilk no doubt.
The wine industry is a good example. I love it when they do those blind tests with $6 wine and $200 wine and more often then not, the wine snobs go with the $6 wine.
I belong to a wine club called Splash that ships me 15 bottles of wine a month for about $89 (includes shipping). That's $6 a bottle. But the wines are not normally what you would find at the store so they have that "exotic" flair to them. People who come visit me think I'm a really sophisticated connoisseur but I don't know jack about these wines. I just know that for $6 a bottle, it tastes pretty good and I don't mind pouring my guests a second or third glass - it's cheap enough!
So, they’re selling gangster athletic shoes?
Same people who vote democrat in LA.
Basically repeating the wine study where “two-buck chuck” was positioned as rare expensive wine served to elitist aficionados.
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