Comments on: Very Strange but Common Myths about Prices

By: 5. sınıf testleri

5. sınıf testleri — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:04:46 +0000

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By: Ricardo Tilus

Ricardo Tilus — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:36:53 +0000

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By: Люди в Чёрном 3

Люди в Чёрном 3 — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:09:00 +0000

It’s cool

By: Hubert

Hubert — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:46:32 +0000

Hi Andy

Im from Poland and to be honest a have to say that I don’t know any particular proverb about price and quality – maybe there is some polish too – but now I can’t remind it.
However I can confirm that in our country exist the same thinking about this. Additionally from my experiences I would like to say that currently we pay more not only for quality (or not)but also for brand I mean that we wand to feel better and show our position in society – of course it cost us more because of advertising and also because of that thinking that this is the staff difficult of access for poorest people.It’s not good but we can still observe it arround…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:26:21 +0000

Hi Andy, I think like you.

Im portuguese we say “O barato sai caro”, and the translating is “the cheaper become expensive”, because sometimes people choose to buy the cheaper product and it breakes, and then, they have to spend more money to fix that or to buy another one. I always try to analyse the cost-benefit, the features of each one before to buy it. Sometimes I need sleep on it to make the rigth decision.
I have to agree with you, today is much more difficult to analyse what is good quality and what is poor quality, mainly eletronic devices.

A hug for all of you!

By: andy

andy — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:17:25 +0000

Hi Afra,

Great use of the phrase “by and large”. I’d have to agree with you that it is still generally the case. The thing to be careful of I guess is that marketers can use this little trick to their advantage. I’m not a huge shopper either but I read a lot about the sneaky tactics companies use all the time to make their products appear much more valuable than they really are.

By: afra

afra — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 09:51:44 +0000

I am not a big shopper but I believe in the quality. In my experience, it has been always the case that if I pay more money I got the better quality. By and large, I believe that “You get what you pay for”.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:05:57 +0000

Today is April 1st and, like many other countries, we celebrate The Fool’s Day or The Humor’s Day, when people play jokes (more often practical jokes) and pranks on each other. Now, when I’m an adult, I don’t participate in such the activities, but back at the time when I was a child we with my friends liked this holiday and anticipated it very much. We liked to come up to strangers and say to them something like: “Your back is white” or “Your pants are dirty” and then to observe their reaction. It seemed very funny for us then.
Nowadays, when I’m a big girl , I sometimes don’t even remember about this holiday. Today, for example, I got some flash e-cards from a couple of my friends and was very pleased, of course. It’s always pleasant when people think about you and try to pick the most beautiful and funny postcard for you.
I remember last year one of my friends joked not very funny. She sent me SMS that our mutual friend is pregnant. I was very shocked, because didn’t remember about the holiday. Of course, eventually I’d recalled. Of course, I told her that it was a pretty lame joke. I should say that it was kind of prophecy, because this our mutual friend got pregnant in 2 months after that incident.:) So today our jokes are not childish at all.

I was meaning to ask you- how do you celebrate this day in Canada, China or wherever you live? Maybe something funny happened to you or your friends on April 1st?

By: Dima (Russia)

Dima (Russia) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:04:28 +0000

Excuse me for offtopic! Valerie could you email me to computer24 @ bk.ru please.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:38:17 +0000

Oh, yes, I forgot to mention this thing. Americans have this kind of prejudice about Russians. They picture Russians as brutal criminals. I don’t know where this prejudice came from. Maybe because in 80s and 90s some Russian people immigrated to America. And you know it’s very difficult and serious decision to leave your home and to move to other country, which you know almost nothing about (now we know much more due to the media and the Internet). So this particular group of people was adventurous and with a lot of illusions and ambitions. And there in America they had to do a lot in order to achieve their goals, maybe something not very good as well. And also they didn’t allow Americans to know their good qualities because they lived in the cliquey Russian communities and was lazy to learn English. So I suppose this stereotype could be derived from these times.
As for sense of humor, I think you are right. Russians are known with their wonderful sense of humor and you, guys, have the great one- I always think about it listening your podcasts