Companies taking advantage of customers lack of knowledge...

cqueen · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Karma :

Once in a while I get dragged down the female hair styling isle in the shops. A few months ago I saw a pair of 'Digital hair straighteners'. Lol wtf are digital hair straighteners?!I had to investigate. Turns out there is a digital temperature display on the front lol Rolling Eyes

Deary me! I wonder how many women get sucked in by this tripe!

So just the other day, got dragged down there again.
Me: ''Oh what do we have here?! ... a ceramic Hair Dryer! Laughing

- OMFG! they have got to be shitting me!''
GF: (confused) what?!!
Me: (speechless) - ''............Ceramic fucking hair dryer!?!''
GF: ??

This is bloody priceless, I've found the picture of the box...
apparently:

ceramic -emits Ion Reflectives! - mmmm! how about that?!
ceramic -Retains Hairs Luster! - oooooh shiney!
Ceramic - Helps to create smooth, silky hair and eliminates frizz!! - well I never!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

cqueen · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Karma :

Ceramic Technology! Thumbs Up

Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

I have to add that those fucking vitamin adverts and stuff like those yoghurt drinks. I mean what the hell are things like Digestium?

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scorps · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Karma :

i have always on principle never bought anything if the advert on telly makes me want to puke from patronising overkill, for example shake and vac detol surface spray, anything from fucking iceland and so on, another bug bear of mine is the way garage owners eyes turn into £ signs when a woman goes in for a quote,

i was quoted a total of £312.23 for a garage to change my brake pipes on my astra, however i am aware that i can get a full set made up and ready to fit for less than £20 so the garage lost a potential customer and i shall badmouth them to any of my friends who mention their name in my company
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cagiva gezzer · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Karma :

Ceramic - They'd use a ceramic heating element instead of a normal metal coil. Better heating properties.

They’d be able to make the output more stable so the girlies won't overheat their heads.

All bull, but (loosely) based on truth..
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Weedy · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Karma :

The one I love is the Dell advert "...This processor with Dual Core technology, which means you can do several things at once"

HELLO?!?! You can anyway without spending £360,000 on upgrading your freaking processor! Shocked

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Weedy · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Karma :

Oh of course there is an improvement, but the advert makes it sound like you can only do one thing at a time unless you buy that upgrade!

For someone with little or no PC knowledge, it is very misleading!
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Dishwasher tablets and razors have to be the two worst culprits.

There was actually a Viz top-tip which read "Makers of Gilette razors, why not steal a march on Wilkinson sword by making a razor with six blades instead of the logical five."

About a month later, they did.

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owdamer · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Karma :

We had a philips hdd/dvd/vcr combi in for repair today. With it came a letter and a shop receipt (they have to send it as proof of purchese)
Turns out this guy had also paid £39.99 for home delivery and installation. The letter said that the deliverymen had connected it all up, turned it on. It started making noises so they told him that it needed to be left for 4 hours for the unit to acclimatise as it had been in a cold van all morning. 4 hours later, with the delivery men sufficiently far enough away the unit still does not work.
The customer rings the shop, who pass him onto the main office, who pass him onto philips. They inform him that he needs to ring us to arrange collection for repair. (we're a 3rd party repair company).
Now this is a brand new unit!!! what must the customer think of philips now?? not to mention the currys home installation team??
Nobody seems to give a fuck anymore. Once they have your money they dont want to know.

scorps · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Karma :

i failed to mention that id had the fronts and a rear done late last year for 50 quid at the garage that did the mot, when i mentioned this to the lad at this garage, he ummed and ahhed and put my car back on the ramp and said oh yes so you did , so technically theyd been prepared to charge me for the full lot, now labour charges or not thats down right dishonest dont you think
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killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

'Hearty Oats'

Ok, what does this mean?

All ways confused me that one.
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Welcome to capitalism. If people will buy it then they can sell it.
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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

It is interesting to note, that "baffling people with science" usually is only directed to women as they would be the only species on earth that would be sucked into "Pentapeptides, bifidus digistium etc"

The "friendly bacteria" you get in those yoghurt's share the same properties as those found in human faeces.

Women are suckers for anything that sounds good.

Another example is the whole "Omega 3" issue. Every manufacturer is including it in their products cause Omega 3 is meant to be amazing for your body. It has been argued it doesn't do much and you can get naturally by eating fish anyway. Yet even some bread makers are adding Omega 3 to appeal to more people. But yet again it is the women who do food shopping and it is the women of the world that would buy into this crap.
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Weedy · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Karma :

[quote="Jon B]The majority of women do and let's not escape this fact.[/quote]

I worked in a supermarket, and I'd say abour half of the customers were partners shopping together both picking up products to put in the trollies. The other half was mainly made up of men doing shopping on their own Thumbs Up

The world is a-changing Laughing

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