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Re: Manufacturer's Profits at Buyer's Expense

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Subject: Re: Manufacturer's Profits at Buyer's Expense
From: N3KKE@aol.com
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:15:30 EST
mvheim@attbi.com wrote:

>  This encouraged the manufacturers to
>  promote them heavily, creating demand, and enabling them to sell them for a
>  higher profit margin.

Promotion can't make people buy anything they don't want.  The Edsel was 
promoted out the wazoo, and the public hated it, and it went away.  Remember 
New Coke?

How about this: find a way to make it pay to "promote" fuel-efficient cars to 
the public.  Get 'em to buy 'em without a gun to their head.  How's your 
Toyota Prius running?

Wendell Hall

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