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Purchasing trends
Message text written by INTERNET:photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Unless you're selling a $2 bottle of shampoo or $5 pet rock, you'd
better be giving the purchaser of a substantial product (such as a
camera) something that really performs by his or her own performance
criteria and doing so with real value, or history shows overwhelmingly
you will loose big time.
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Your comments about the need to give a purchaser a "substantial product" =
is
true, I believe, even of your $5 pet rocks, and other "fad" items. I know=
it's fashionable to look down our noses at those inferior life forms who
buy fad items like pet rocks or hula hoops. But these, too, fill a need f=
or
whimsy or light-heartedness in many, many people. Not all fad items
succeed, and the ones that do succeed do so because they give the buyer a=
"substantial product"--whimsy is very substantial in an increasingly
alienating world. And lest we forget, just about anything 3D is a fad ite=
m,
and most writers who report on fads include anyone interested in 3D as a
part of that group of idiotic, half-witted, easily-led fools who buy pet
rocks and hula hoops.
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