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  • 89th8 Offline
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    Got an email that said “Hurry! Spots to visit Santa at the mall are filling fast!”

    Well, why advertise if you supposedly are going to sell out?

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    • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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      Aqua Letifer
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      Eh, 105 IQ marketing message. A transparent and pathetic attempt at engaging parents' FOMO that absolutely works especially with shit like this.

      Please love yourself.

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        Or similarly the calls I would sometimes get from a guy selling me pre-IPO investments. Never found out how he got my number. He worked for a company who acquired the shares and then re-sold them to a lucky select few. These were can't miss prospects. I would always ask them why not just keep the shares and sell them post-IPO as you're telling me to. He had some hand wavy answer about how that's not their business model, they just acquire and re-sell. But the business model never made sense. The sales style was very aggressive though. He preferred that the conversation remain one-sided and had to pretend pretty hard to pay attention to my questions. East coast guy with the accent and everything. Like the movie Boiler Room.

        Education is extremely important.

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          Or similarly the calls I would sometimes get from a guy selling me pre-IPO investments. Never found out how he got my number. He worked for a company who acquired the shares and then re-sold them to a lucky select few. These were can't miss prospects. I would always ask them why not just keep the shares and sell them post-IPO as you're telling me to. He had some hand wavy answer about how that's not their business model, they just acquire and re-sell. But the business model never made sense. The sales style was very aggressive though. He preferred that the conversation remain one-sided and had to pretend pretty hard to pay attention to my questions. East coast guy with the accent and everything. Like the movie Boiler Room.

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          @Horace said in Oh marketing:

          Or similarly the calls I would sometimes get from a guy selling me pre-IPO investments. Never found out how he got my number. He worked for a company who acquired the shares and then re-sold them to a lucky select few. These were can't miss prospects. I would always ask them why not just keep the shares and sell them post-IPO as you're telling me to. He had some hand wavy answer about how that's not their business model, they just acquire and re-sell. But the business model never made sense. The sales style was very aggressive though. He preferred that the conversation remain one-sided and had to pretend pretty hard to pay attention to my questions. East coast guy with the accent and everything. Like the movie Boiler Room.

          What I find interesting is that a lot of overseas folks in traditionally non-english speaking countries are actually eating this shit up as they acquire such jobs. It's like the seminar courses of the 50's like P.T. Barnum's Timeless Sales Tips are finally reaching there.

          Please love yourself.

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            Never, ever buy anything from someone who calls you or comes to your door. I don’t care if they want to sell you five dollar bills for fifty cents.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              Or similarly the calls I would sometimes get from a guy selling me pre-IPO investments. Never found out how he got my number. He worked for a company who acquired the shares and then re-sold them to a lucky select few. These were can't miss prospects. I would always ask them why not just keep the shares and sell them post-IPO as you're telling me to. He had some hand wavy answer about how that's not their business model, they just acquire and re-sell. But the business model never made sense. The sales style was very aggressive though. He preferred that the conversation remain one-sided and had to pretend pretty hard to pay attention to my questions. East coast guy with the accent and everything. Like the movie Boiler Room.

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              @Horace

              I’ve received very few such calls but one I remember the guy, uninterruptable, went through his spiel and ended with the line “If you have the guts, I can open an account for you right now”.

              I literally laughed out loud.

              "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
              -Cormac McCarthy

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              • 89th8 Offline
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                Update! I made a similar comment to my wife, who agreed it was a FOMO move. She also said it's a good idea to book our visit with Santa so it's on the calendar, so now we are booked. So glad we got a spot before they sold out!

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