Apr
28
This bothers me for some reason
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I really don’t like it when marketers list their price as “a measly $XX.” You may have seen these sales letters selling whatever for a “measly $77.” I’m sorry, it may be a measly amount of money to you, but $47, $77, $97 or however many is a significant amount of money to me. I even saw something for sale for a “measly $197.”
I understand that they are trying to convey the value of what your are purchasing with the “measly” amount of money. The thing is, I know what I have to do to earn that “measly” sum of money, and I do not consider my time and efforts to be measly. Pretty much anytime I see something listed for sale at a “measly” price, I skip right over it. It just seems disrespectful of my efforts to earn my money. But then again, that’s just my opinion.
Apr
27
Western Union
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I just saw a commercial for western union on the TV.
I have to wonder, with the advent of paypal and other electronic services, how is Western Union still in business? Have y’all ever tried to send anyone money using WU? It costs you, the sender, about $9 to send the money. Then, the recipient has to go to a WU station to collect the money. Why would anyone do that when you can just paypal the money over?
Seriously, you can send the money to whomever’s paypal account, then they can transfer it to their own bank account, or pay whatever bill they have to pay straight from the paypal account all for FREE! Why pay for that same service?
Anyway, I guess that’s a story for another day.