Manipulative Marketing Under Attack

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:38:32 -0400, "C. E. White"
> wrote:

>Isn't the term "Manipulative Marketing" redundant? What is marketing
>but the science of manipulating people to get them to buy your
>products or services?

Good point. And as long as people keep buying, business will keep
doing it. Take the CVS (or any, "pharmacy," for that matter) -
obviously, the tactic of parading patrons past the other crap they are
pushing to get to the pills works, or they would have come up with
some other plan for their stores....

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when the sun is shining, but wants it back the
minute it begins to rain."
-- Mark Twain

Dave wrote:
> "edward ohare" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:39:31 -0700, "FrediFizzx"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Heck, ya go thru the drive-thru pharmacy and you don't even have to go
>>> in the store at our Walgreens.
>>>
>> Yea, I have to wonder about how much that feature has hurt in store
>> sales. Just like I wonder if the labor savings from "pay at the pump"
>> covers the lost sales from people coming inside the gas station to
>> pay.
>
> Now you know why the printer at the pump is ALWAYS out of paper. Forces you
> to go into the store, even if you're just there to buy gas. -Dave

Hah! Actually that (or the paper towel dispenser for checking oil being
empty or a speaker booming advertisements at me that I have to hit a
mute button to stop or the pump nozzle latch being missing) consistently
happening causes me to find another gas station.

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Bill Putney
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address with the letter 'x')

"necromancer" rg> wrote in
message ...
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:38:32 -0400, "C. E. White"
> > wrote:
>
>>Isn't the term "Manipulative Marketing" redundant? What is marketing
>>but the science of manipulating people to get them to buy your
>>products or services?
>
> Good point. And as long as people keep buying, business will keep
> doing it. Take the CVS (or any, "pharmacy," for that matter) -
> obviously, the tactic of parading patrons past the other crap they are
> pushing to get to the pills works, or they would have come up with
> some other plan for their stores....
>

Dudes, this entire post was obviously a joke, I would have thought the
comment
about the customer having a "hard time" getting his Viagra prescription
filled would have given it away.

Sheesh, gullible people here....

Ted

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:01:06 -0700, "Ted Mittelstaedt"
> wrote:


>Dudes, this entire post was obviously a joke, I would have thought the
>comment
>about the customer having a "hard time" getting his Viagra prescription
>filled would have given it away.
>
>Sheesh, gullible people here....

I doubt very many people in the auto groups are fooled at all. I
think they know when they see poster's name what the post is.

Just because the guy is trying to be funny doesn't mean there's
nothing in the post to talk about.

> Dudes, this entire post was obviously a joke, I would have thought the
> comment about the customer having a "hard time" getting his Viagra
> prescription filled would have given it away.

Joe Camel and "Heinrich Tungensheek" were giveaways too.

Which doesn't mean it isn't a serious topic, that can validly draw
serious responses.

In article <4ab257ca$1@kcnews01>, says...
> Isn't the term "Manipulative Marketing" redundant? What is marketing
> but the science of manipulating people to get them to buy your
> products or services?
>
>
>
<snip>

Marketing is *product desire enhancement*.


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James E. Morrow
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In article >,
says...
>
> "necromancer" rg> wrote in
> message ...
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:38:32 -0400, "C. E. White"
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>Isn't the term "Manipulative Marketing" redundant? What is marketing
> >>but the science of manipulating people to get them to buy your
> >>products or services?
> >
> > Good point. And as long as people keep buying, business will keep
> > doing it. Take the CVS (or any, "pharmacy," for that matter) -
> > obviously, the tactic of parading patrons past the other crap they are
> > pushing to get to the pills works, or they would have come up with
> > some other plan for their stores....
> >
>
> Dudes, this entire post was obviously a joke, I would have thought the
> comment
> about the customer having a "hard time" getting his Viagra prescription
> filled would have given it away.
>
> Sheesh, gullible people here....
>
> Ted
>
>
>
Erections lasting more than four hours require immediate medical
attention.
--
James E. Morrow
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On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:22:37 -0800, John David Galt
> wrote:

>> Dudes, this entire post was obviously a joke, I would have thought the
>> comment about the customer having a "hard time" getting his Viagra
>> prescription filled would have given it away.
>
>Joe Camel and "Heinrich Tungensheek" were giveaways too.

Heh heh

>
>Which doesn't mean it isn't a serious topic, that can validly draw
>serious responses.

Some people just don't understand....

"edward ohare" > wrote in message
...

> But since most of them come with 2.7s or 3.5s Mercedes should have gone
> for what was appropriate for those engines.. front wheel drive...and just
> forgotten about the Hemi. Which begs the question of why Mercedes is
> still building their own cars that have wimpy engines with rear wheel
> drive.


I bought a Volvo S80 in 2001. Wimpy engine, FWD and all.

Most miserable car I ever owned.

My kids are grown so I don't need a super-sized car and I'm pretty happy
with my current '08 C300 Luxury. And here's one of the reasons why: The
RWD platform allows it to make a u-turn in about half the distance that that
stupid Volvo needed.

When I owned the dumbass Volvo and complained about the lack of
maneuverability I was told that with FWD it was impossible to engineer the
front steering geometry to do an adequate job.
--
Pat