Re:The worst sales promotion in history
by grogenaut on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:13PM
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How many years till that's true
People in 2100 will laugh at that joke and think "that's way too cheap. What is she thinking!"
Re:The worst sales promotion in history
by _carbyau_ on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:12PM
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Has happened before:
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...
Actually it's pretty genius. They probably made a killing, they went out being 80 million in the hole due to unpaid rebates and ended up paying out something like 2 cents on the dollar. I'm sure they got decent salaries and made money from upstream purchases.
Assuming no one here went to jail this is essentially a legal way to run a ponzi scheme.
If the buyer didn't care how much things cost, they'd buy the $500 TV at the shop, not through some crazy "$500 TV for $5000" scheme.
Rich people aren't idiots, I think the target customer for this thing is someone who's so price sensitive that they'll go to huge lengths to get a TV for free.
Reminds me of Jessica Walter's character in Arrested Development: "It's a banana, Michael - how much could it cost? Ten dollars?"