[projectvrm] OK, I give up. Marketers can do what they want.

["T.Rob" < >]

"To protest Black Friday, makers of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity removed all of their products from their online store on the day after Thanksgiving — instead offering only a box of what they said was actual “bullsh*t” for $6. Despite the fact that it was made quite clear that customers were literally just buying sh*t — Cards Against Humanity founder Max Temkin tweeted “if you buy the poop expecting it to be something else that’s not poop, you’re actually buying a valuable life lesson for $6″ — the boxes of sh*t sold out by day’s end. All 30,000 of them, grossing Cards Against Humanity $180,000."

 

"And now as the boxes of poop have come rolling in over the past week, people are somehow still surprised that their packages actually just contain sh*t, as promised."

 

http://iopt.us/1sy9f6C

http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/12/people-who-bought-boxes-of-sht-from-cards-against-humanity-were-actually-surprised-to-receive-sht/

 

Here's a case where the advertising could not have been more truthful and yet people bought the product fully expecting they would receive something else.  They didn't even know what, exactly.  Apparently, it didn't matter.

 

Tonight I have 30,000 new reasons to reconsider all my arguments on behalf of VRM, privacy, whatever.  Tonight I'm prepared to believe that the majority of people would lack the interest, the means and the competence to use a pencil sharpener.  Tonight I'm prepared to believe there are some people so far gone that tracking them both online and offline cannot confer anything other than a net benefit in their lives because they have no place to go but up.

 

I'm sure it will wear off tomorrow.  In the meantime, please enjoy this brief moment of simulated acid trip as my holiday gift:

 

Mrs. Presky: "Er....ahhhhh....I'll take the bag."

 

Announcer: "You mean your gonna trade this four foot cube of 18 carrot Swiss Bouillon and the snake knives, Mrs. Presky, all for that little bag ???"

 

Mrs. Presky: "Yes!"

 

Announcer: "Well alllllright!! Open it up!!"

 

Mrs. Presky: "Why. . why . . this is a bag of shit!"

 

Announcer: "But it's really GREAT shit, Mrs Presky."

 

-- Firesign Theatre, Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers

 

 

Kind regards,

-- T.Rob

 

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