On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:38:00 -0700 (PDT), RicodJour
wrote:

On Oct 19, 11:22*am, "SteveB" wrote:
"RicodJour" wrote in message
On Oct 18, 10:32 pm, "SteveB" wrote:

If you have a really good product, people know about it, and you don't
have
to spend a lot on advertising. If you don't, you advertise the hell out of
it. They have to sell a lot of vacuums to just break even on the
advertising. Like Geico. Tons of TV ads. Nascar cars. Drag racers @
$40,000 a run. If they want to drop the cost of their insurance, simply
cut
the ad costs. Allstate is beating them up pretty good now by just
advertising prices, and not going with all the hoopla. I'm just sick of
seeing the cavemen.

You do have a point. *Advertising doesn't do anything. *Sheesh^2.


No, it does work. *Look what it did for FenFen and Hydroxycut. *Dangerous
chemicals, and people were buying them like candy.

Textbook logic fallacy. You said just a bit earlier that if a
business had a good product, people would know about it and they
wouldn't have to advertise. The diet stuff you mention worked and
worked well - unfortunately it had some side effects. Since it worked
well, and there is a grapevine, the products would have still sold
with or without advertising.

Stop Monday morning quarterbacking. It's Monday morning fer
crissakes!

What would the rates at
Geico REALLY be like if they didn't have dragsters making $40,000 runs, and
$200,000 cars being totaled? *I'd say it would be less. *That's my point.

Businesses are in business to give _you_ the lowest cost and not give,
or attempt to give, the stockholders the biggest bang and/or maximize
profits? Right - makes perfect sense.

Businesses are about profit. Doing business with a business means you
accept this. No one is holding a gun to your head. You don't like
it, don't do business with that business - and don't whine about it.
It's unseemly.

Whiners just like to whine.