What products prey on stupid people?

RedTie

I just heard an ad for the latest HP printer that will "tell you when your computer is under attack"

Sorry. What? :pac:

Other products that prey on stupid people would be smartphones. If you update yours, spending 700 euros in the process, every year a new model comes out I probably dont want to be your friend.

Also: Cigarettes. How, in 2017, have cigarette companies got new customers?

What other products prey on stupid people?

Housing

The_Valeyard

Lynx deodorant

RedTie

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Housing

We already have a winner!

Junkyard Tom

It not so much the products as it is marketing and advertising.

pajor

The Lotto.

King George VI

Correct grammer book's

Edit: dictionary, the word I was looking for was dictionary.

_Brian

Sports drinks, minerals.

All the anti wrinkle crap peddled to middle aged women, if your 50 with a face like the Grand Canyon I can guarentee there is nothing in a small jar for any money that will make any difference to anything but your bank balance.

Fake tan

Doctor Nick

Wow I'm thick. Here I am sitting in my house smelling of lynx and smoking a cigarette while checking my lotto numbers so I can buy a new phone.

Are Am Eye

King George VI wrote: »

Correct grammer book's

Correct spelling books.

theteal

King George VI wrote: »

Correct grammer book's

Not sure if joke. . . .

everlast75

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Doctor Nick

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Ha yes! Really sh!te products. All of them.

DontThankMe

Those "physic mediums" that claim to predict the future or contact the dead.

RDM_83 again

Healing magnets.
I don't mind people using stuff thats not medically proven (as long as they do the conventional route too) as the placebo effect is pretty strong but the fact they charge so much for a simple magnetic bracelet is definitely preying on people.

B.A._Baracus

To be fair, we're all stupid when it comes to something.

You hear such utter crap from TV adverts... Homemade, natural, Fast acting etc. Pick your marketing vile :pac: but yet we still buy these things.

The Backwards Man

When it comes to getting money out of people there's no such things as smart or stupid, just easy or hard.

Samuel T. Cogley

RedTie wrote: »

I just heard an ad for the latest HP printer that will "tell you when your computer is under attack"

Sorry. What? :pac:

Other products that prey on stupid people would be smartphones. If you update yours, spending 700 euros in the process, every year a new model comes out I probably dont want to be your friend.

Also: Cigarettes. How, in 2017, have cigarette companies got new customers?

What other products prey on stupid people?

HP have a point at the enterprise level. As for cigarettes, how has Heroin still got customers a hundred years after it ceased as a brand?

bottlebrush

_Brian wrote: »

Sports drinks, minerals.

All the anti wrinkle crap peddled to middle aged women, if your 50 with a face like the Grand Canyon I can guarentee there is nothing in a small jar for any money that will make any difference to anything but your bank balance.

Fake tan

Add to that false eye lashes and gel nails

readyletsgo

Fidget spinners! I mean, they prob cost 2¢ to make, sell for between €3 to €10 to kids parents (I guess adults too). Surely it's dying out now that Irish stalls and Chinese shops have millions of them in stock.

In fairness, great money 'spinner', but seriously!

I know it all started with a Kickstarter a year or two ago with that fidget cube yoke.

Are Am Eye

Printers are devices on a network. They have a bit of local processing as well. An I.T Dept will expect its printers to do a lot, including not be a vulnerability.

RedTie

readyletsgo wrote: »

Fidget spinners!

Kids will always latch onto crazy stuff and parents will always have to buy them.

Ever wonder why the "most popular" toy sells out every Christmas? It's all manufactured to happen that way to cause a frenzy.

freshpopcorn

A lot of health food products!

RedTie

freshpopcorn wrote: »

A lot of health food products!

Seconded.

The majority of protein bars are about as good for you as a Snickers or a Mars bar.

jobeenfitz

DontThankMe wrote: »

Those "physic mediums" that claim to predict the future or contact the dead.

I knew you'd say that!

Junkyard Tom

pajor wrote: »

The Lotto.

I think there's a lot of pseudo-intellectual sneering at people who do the lotto. I'm sure that most people know the odds of winning are incredibly slim but while they have that ticket they can fantasise about having no money worries, taking exotic holidays, buying a beautiful home, driving an amazing car, looking after their kids' futures and so on.

greencap

Big exhausts.

My car is loud this means you should be impressed.

Bushmanpm

Bavarian Murder Weapons

justshane

Selfie sticks.

CardinalJ

The penalli pen set.

People should know they dont need to stab cans in the middle of writing a letter.

ThisRegard

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It not so much the products as it is marketing and advertising.

What marketing and advertising?

freshpopcorn

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I think there's a lot of pseudo-intellectual sneering at people who do the lotto. I'm sure that most people know the odds of winning are incredibly slim but while they have that ticket they can fantasise about having no money worries, taking exotic holidays, buying a beautiful home, driving an amazing car, looking after their kids' futures and so on.

I don't drink or smoke and do the lottto when the prize is big and I get the odd scratch card.

readyletsgo

RedTie wrote: »

Kids will always latch onto crazy stuff and parents will always have to buy them.

Ever wonder why the "most popular" toy sells out every Christmas? It's all manufactured to happen that way to cause a frenzy.

Yes I know that ðŸ˜

But it's not just kids, adults too.

eyerer

RedTie wrote: »

freshpopcorn wrote: »

A lot of health food products!

Seconded.

The majority of protein bars are about as good for you as a Snickers or a Mars bar.

I've seen Mars Protein Bars
Mad really, but also expensive

funnights74

The shopping channels on satellite TV are full of nonsense rubbish, those exercise machines where they use body builders to convince people they can look like this in a month are ridiculous. Abs developers are another scam. A fool and his/her money......

RedTie

justshane wrote: »

Selfie sticks.

I think this come in very handy if doing a solo holiday and you dont want to ask a random stranger to take a pic of you with your $700 phone. I dont own one but have definitely considered buying one.

whiskeyman

Mobile phone insurance

BrokenArrows

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I don't drink or smoke and do the lottto when the prize is big and I get the odd scratch card.

Because the regular couple of million isn't enough for you?

osarusan

Bookies.

Multivitamins and most "extract" products.

Harry Palmr

Perfidious yoghurt or whatever it's called.

freshpopcorn

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Because the regular couple of million isn't enough for you?

When I want to do something I want to make sure it's worth while!

OldMrBrennan83

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osarusan

Patww79 wrote: »

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Here you are on boards, wasting all your hard-earned words on us strangers.

lawred2

theteal wrote: »

Not sure if joke. . . .

You weren't concerned about book's...

I think he was going for obvious joke is obvious

tastyt

Cars, phones, gym membership.

And most of all, pints or bottles in our rip off pubs

endacl

Homeopathy.
'Psychic' mediums.
Homeopathy.

I included homeopathy twice, because everybody with a health insurance policy pays for it, as all providers cover it, and some idiots claim for it.

tastyt

SKY tv.

Two hundred channels and nothing on

Burial.

Smartphones. Especially the phones that make people queue up for a day to fork out a grand for a product a tiny bit faster and lighter than the one you bought less than a year ago.

Zebra3

Religion.

No shortage of brainwashed mugs.

RedTie

Patww79 wrote: »

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Strongly disagree.

Memories is what you'd have. I'd take seeing some of the world over the latest gimmicky phone every time.