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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 5/24/18 12:01 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2018 08:10:54 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/24/18 2:10 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 17:42:24 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/23/18 5:08 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote:
On 5/23/18 1:51 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 13:31:24 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/23/18 1:22 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:37:18 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/23/18 10:40 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:38:14 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/23/18 6:56 AM, Tim wrote:

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Can you blame them. Free stuff is hard to resist.

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And when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you?ll always have Paul?s support.

The 1% are robbing this country of everything.

They are usually providing a service that people eagerly flock to.

And you probably believe that ****, too.

You don't think people want to buy things from Amazon (Bezos), run
Windows PCs (Gates) , yack on Facebook (Zuckerberg) and look **** up
on Google (Page/Brin)? Those are 5 of the 6 richest guys in the US.
Buffett (#3) is just smart enough to get his money out in front of
what people want and cash in on it.

Amazon sells a huge variety of stuff, typically at lower prices than can
be easily found elsewhere, and delivers to your door. Microsoft sells
software for which there are many competing products. Zuckerberg gives
his flagship product away and hopefully properly address FB's security
and privacy issues. There are many competitors for google, and the apps
are given away. That advertisers pay to be on most of these products is
the price one pays for them, the same way one pays for commercial TV and
radio.

Free TV ends up costing the consumer more each year
than pay TV, just in the price they pay for everything advertised on
that TV.

No one forces watchers of commercial TV to buy anything.

But those watchers of commercial TV buy products. And those products pass
along the costs of the company to operate. So who pays the $million bucks
for s Super Bowl advert? Who paid for your salary when you worked for an
Ad agency?

Advertising creates and sustains demand for products and services. How
enlightening of you to admit that. The owners of the agencies I worked
for paid my salary.

Actually advertising creates demand for a higher priced product that
is usually no better than the unadvertised product. It is just about
branding and hype.
That is why Budweiser costs more than Busch but there is actually an
imperceptible difference between them and certainly not two or three
bucks a 12 pack difference in production cost.

Actually, you don't know **** about advertising or marketing, but you
think you do. I wouldn't know about the taste or ingredient similarities
between Busch and Bud, as the three beers I might drink each summer
aren't these brands. I still have two Coronas left over from last
summer. I use Corona as the liquid base in which to steam hot dogs and
sauerkraut.

Let me get this right, You say I don't know **** then you admit you
don't know anything about the examples I cited.
I understand advertising is a good living for those in it but that
cost gets added to the price of the products they promote.

I've seen Bud and Busch TV and print ads, but I'm not much of a beer
drinker. I know, however, that beer is a consumer product and the brands
have many competitors. So, it is not unlike many other consumer
products. My comment about your lack of knowledge of marketing and
advertising stands.

Your expertice comes from your gig as a jingle writer?
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