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 Originally Posted by Renton
Well there is definitely an art and science to marketing, but I think its a little bit cynical to state that people buy brand name products because they are being duped into it. There are a lot of good reasons for buying a name brand product. You pay extra for the consistency in quality and the dependability the the brand implies (or often expresses in writing).
The main thing is that we define a line in advertising that constitutes fraud, and provide harsh negative incentives to fraudulent behavior.
It is cynical. There was a reddit post some time back about a guy who used to love an ice cream brand until it was bought out and completely ruined that speaks to where I'm coming from. By the end, they couldn't even call their product ice cream on the box, but they were still making a profit because people don't spend more than 5.6 seconds researching that ice cream choice. Because people are busy and exhausted and worried about more tangible problems on the scale of their life.
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