>Well Dragan, so I am paying more from my stuff because of you!
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>Because you do not watch the advertisement they think there must be something wrong with them (well we know there is something wrong with them, but in this case I meant them the commercials), so they pay more consultants, psychologists, and researchers to see what was wrong, which ultimately leads to more expensive advertisement that you continue to ignore, repeating the cycle. Had you watched the commercials in the first place instead of throwing them into the garbage, or muting them etc, commercials wouldn't be as catchy and as frequent as they are and the products I buy would be cheaper. THANK YOU SIR!

I knew I'll be doomed once they start calling me "sir", but didn't expect such a bizarre cause :).

This is like the typical "tell me what I want or I will shoot her", which somehow implies that the helpless guy wrapped in duck tape who can hardly breathe and is already beaten into a pulp would be more guilty of her death than the guy who got them there, tied them and threatens to actually pull the trigger.

My advice to guys trying to sell me stuff is the same as the one they give to their candidate workers: don't call us, we'll call you.

Translated into English, push technology is dead. But when I pull, give me info I want (who has what I want, where, under what conditions, what's the specs, what's the price, how fast can I get it) and give it to me fast and without hassle.

This means:
- don't try to harvest my email, I'll leave immediately.
- don't try to harvest my phone, you'll get blacklisted.
- don't put "call for price", I will never even try my negotiating skills over a phone. Actually, I'm never ever buying anything over a phone. Give me time to take a good look at its webpage, to check your rating, to find the "sucks" pages about your product, and then I'll decide. If you try to have someone trained on me while I'm thinking, you're out.
- limit the small print. If it sounds like it has a hidden catch, it probably does. Out.
- don't offer mail-in rebate. I'm not giving you a free loan. And you can't use it to acquire a "business relationship" as a pretext for spamming me or calling me on the phone. Shove it. 90% of those never get honored anyway.
- put the actual specs, not PR soundbites in the product page.

Actually, we've spent quite a lot of money recently, but not on stuff that was advertised.