I love the peasant spotting videos, but
this is a rational argument posted on Facebook by my buddy, who writes his funniness at
The Humor Columnist
I have big respect for reason #3. While I get an adrenaline rush doing deadlifts and making a sale online.... Many people get their adrenaline rush at finding a way to get 90% off by combining coupons, sales, and a no-annual-fee credit card sign up. To each his or her own.
That said, from our angle, PEASANTS SPOTTED. The real winners are the ones CREATING the black friday specials, and getting them to wait in line for your gear. Pick a side.
Lettuce be cereal for a second. Black Friday, the manufacturers put out their shittiest product, in limited quantity, so people can get up and hopefully be one of the 12 people that can get that discount. That's inciting a riot. 1st Law Broken.
If it was really about giving out discounts, the manufacturers would have been ramping up on their production for Black Friday, but no. Best Buy puts out 12 $140 TVs, and when those TVs are gone, the thinking is that since the consumer is already here, they are going to buy a bunch of other stuff.
If they truly wanted to give out discounts, they would stock up with thousands of those $140 TVs. Look at the Walmart one with the huge box of that convertible kids car. Why was there only 12 of them available? Do you think Walmart seriously didn't realize that would be a hot item?
Best Buy sells TVs 365 days a year. Do you really think they don't have people in the background, saying, "Hey you know if we lower the price, we'll sell more TVs." They put those 12 $140 TVs out to lure the customers in, and when the $140 TVs are gone, They'll go to the regular price of $999. Bait and Switch.
The manufacturers and stores know what they are doing, every single one of their executives has taken a course whether in college or by experience in Supply and Demand. When you offer $140 for a 40 inch TV, then you tell everyone in the god damn world, and then only have 12 available... That's inciting a riot in my book.
Let's not mention the fact that all that cheap crap they are buying probably won't work after 60 days. So throw in blatant rape of consumers. Price Gouging.
And then the peasants... the damn peasants that don't know any better. They'd rather participate like sheep, going down and being a part of the god damn game... They've been brainwashed into believing that some how every year they need a new damn TV. I'm trying to figure out how everyone seems to need a new god damn TV every year. What are they doing to their TVs that warrants them another one, and another.
Also, who the hell is actually gift wrapping TV for other people? No one. They are keeping that shit for themselves. When was the last time you actually seen someone give another person a TV, besides their parents? I've never gotten a goddamn 40 inch TV for any christmas. Those peasants are keeping that shit for themselves.
And the irony... if they actually stopped watching TV... they'd stop being peasants. I don't know what sales are going on, but everyone of these peasants do, and that's because they've seen it... through their TV.
God damnit, I want to be a TV manufacturer just for the holidays. Sell my shit, and be done with it... I'm pissed, cause now, all those people are going to have less money for Cyber Monday...
My Superbowl. At least, my websites won't incite riots.
I'm one of those guys that really hates blatant consumerism like this, but then again, I make a living off of this. There is that old saying, "Don't slap the mouth that feeds you..."
What's sad and crazy... is the reason why so much of our shitty SEO marketing works is because those people we are calling peasants, are our goddamn consumers. They are the traffic that clicks our ads, banners, and makes us Adsense money. So in a way... I'm a little happy the sheep are acting like sheep. It's more predictable that way. If they started to actually educate themselves... lets be serious for a second, a lot of our SEO tactics, our marketing campaigns, and our MFA sites would be useless.
So yeah... I'm okay with the current system...
Black Friday, Carry that shit on...
