Be honest,do you get affected by marketing bullshit?

Same as tv commercials, i just zap away from them, i don't buy anything through it (not that i can) yet apparently it somehow sells.
Plenty of people that are sheep and follow.

Actually no, I got used to this. If everybody does that then seeing Factorio for fixed 20 eur actually makes it higher in the marketing hierarchy than everything else that follows the same shit pattern.

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We all do.

I'm not annoyed and I would like to say that I'm not affected but in reality, I probably am to some extent

Everyone is influenced by marketing. If you think you aren’t, you’re lying to yourself.

I don't even watch TV anymore

only $10.01

According to research it tends to have a subconscious effect. Meaning that even if you believe you're 100% not affected, you can still be affected. So yeah, we're probably all affected even if just slightly.

But what I tend to do is simply put the prices next to eachother, round it to the nearest meaningful price an compare it to the prices I believe make sense for the product in question. At least with larger stuff anyway.

Be honest,do you get affected by marketing bullshit?

yes i am a humble monthly subscriber

Perhaps sometimes unconsciously. Helps that I'm quite frugal and pretty often question myself with 'Do I really need this?'.

Of course I do, I just bought a videogame because there was a green "-40%" next to its price.

Sure, it's basic psychology and I am a human being (I think?).

I don't like it but it works.

I'm sure I'm easily manipulated, but I stand my ground on one thing.

I do not buy any product that has an ALARM CLOCK buzzing in the commercial.

I hate that noise.

Depends ... what we're talking about - if i were to buy baby food on the go, without having done proper research/lookup beforehand (multiple credible sources) on whats best for the sucker ... i'd go with premium. Or literally ask the clerk - will it blend? Just to test, whether their trying to shill me something or actually make an example relating to their personal choice (aka possibly stealth shill you something).

The variety of marketing/selling methods goes far and wide into many aspects not visible at first glance 4P's. In fact these days you can't even tell if you weren't bamboozled on some level. I'm not talking about biting the bullet badly, but knowingly or unwittingly having gone with something for a "reasons".

In the end it boils down to what is it worth to you ... a smart fellow will at least
try and figure that out in as much detail as it is reasonable to invest.

Don't be ridiculous, of course you are affected by marketing--often at levels that you do not understand or consciously recognise. Claiming otherwise is naive or ignorant at best, or plain disingenuous at worst. There are a multitude of techniques that marketers can exploit to take advantage of the way our brains are wired and the way we operate socially, here's a quick rundown of the most common ones: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/psychology-marketers-revealing-principles-human-behavior (Case in point: No. 6 "Anchoring", basically everyone who uses this site loses their shit over this).

You can only begin to actively make a conscious effort to resist these kinds of tactics if you are aware of them in the first place (and not even then is it guaranteed you will succeed, as some of these phenomena have shown to be extremely resilient). That said, on a higher level of cognitive functioning, this kind of thing is more obvious, and thus easier to counteract which is why they often backfire, resulting in reactance .

no

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not me. But it does work. J.C. Penney was a real-world case study a few years ago.

They were known for always having stuff on sale. Like, the same table would be 50% off of $150 all year round - so really $75
A new C.E.O. came in, and said, why be ridiculous, why not just price it honestly - just say the table is $75.
All prices dropped significantly, and they stopped the sales.

Business tanked, the C.E.O. was fired, and they went back to having year-round sales. Basically, more people would buy a table for 50% off of $150 than the same table for $75.

i have adblocker it helps

I hate price that end with .99 on Humble Store, because it means I lose $0.01 on my Humble Wallet :(

$1.00 * 5% = $0.05
$0.99 * 5% = $0.0495 -> 0.04 on result amount

And in real life I hate price that end with 9 on purpose, because I already have too many 1 dollar coins. (faceplam)