Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
by CydeWeys on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:06PM
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I think you're really reaching here in describing this as a lie. Their products are unique. They designed them themselves and no one else is manufacturing and selling exactly the same thing. They even have a completely unique feature set (folding + triwheels), which is more than you can say for most products.
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Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
by raquo on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:20PM
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By that measure pretty much every product except the most generic crap is unique, but that word means more than just "slightly different".
Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
by CydeWeys on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:57PM
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Yes, exactly, that's how the word is commonly used, especially in advertising/the marketplace.
Just because you'd prefer others be more stringent with it doesn't mean that everyone else is lying.
Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly
by raquo on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:06PM
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Alternatively, sleazy marketing is in no position to define the meaning of words, even if that's most of marketing.
A cable package or car loan does not magically become a GREAT DEAL just because a billboard said so. We're just used to constant lies and aggrandizement in advertising, so all that bullshit looks normal, entirely expected now. It's still bullshit though.