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.
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.
Some people are born just to be customers.
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?
Basically repeating the wine study where “two-buck chuck” was positioned as rare expensive wine served to elitist aficionados.
Just a thought, were there any men's shoes sold to men by this "luxury" shoe store?
Snicker ...
Fake fakes?..................
Oh well. They can call it what ever they like.
Ninety-nine percent of all shoes bought in the USA are made in Chine, Vietnam, or some other factory sweatshop. Those $200 Italian loafers? Made in Bangladesh or someplace similar.
But whatever. I am still blown away at how millions of American have essentially made everyone named Kardashian a billionaire. Absolutely incredible.
One of the most enduring lessons that life has taught me is this:
You will never go broke underestimating how shallow people can be.
Just a variation on the Folgers coffee commercial, “we secretly replaced the coffee these fine diners normally drink with Folgers Crystals...let’s see how they react.” Kind of corny but it makes the point.
A fool and his money...
One of the many reasons you should never blindly trust the word of “experts”.
a fool and his money...