It is true that marketing guys are just shameless. (Friends if you are in this business, then it is not a personal allegation but it is on the marketing business in general. )They can do anything to sell a thing to you. Further i think they just take for granted that people are foolish. Following 2 examples clearly demonstrate this.
1)I have a subscription of time magazine. It costs me about $20 per year. Every now and then i will get subscription renewal notice in my mail with some quote. Typically they are about $40 or more. Why will i pay double or triple of current subscription price? And to top it on one of the notice there was something like "Enroll for automatic renewal, so that we don't have to send you renewal notices in mail and it will be good for environment." Common do you take me for that kind of sucker. If you don't want to damage environment then stop sending these junk. If your product is good and being sold at right price, i will get it. Stop emotional blackmailing.
2)I use snapfish for photo development. Lately i ordered about 50 prints from them. Using a coupon i had to pay in total about $9. Not bad. Today when i checked to see its status, i see a funny marketing message below my orders. "You've received the lowest price available for your order. You saved $186.30 on your order". Now this is an outrageous statement. Nowhere in the world anyone will pay this amount of money for photo prints.
