I took it as advertising and some damage control to prevent customers in future sessions from expecting to "go again" and you having to shut him down. c44 is known to be an abrasive jackass but I consider his points to be accurate and credible.
Originally Posted by GlobeSpotter
That is exactly how I took it...CD is doing what wine marketers have know for years. They try and sell you on their overall experience being better to justify the price differential of a bottle of wine you may like at half the price.
Let us change the word wine in this article to hooker. http://thinktraffic.net/cheap-vs-expensive-wine-can-you-taste-the-difference
The
Hooker “experts” who rate wines for big magazines can have a big affect on what we like, but not necessarily because we think the
Hooker taste better. The
Hooker ratings in major publications are highly correlated with the price of the
Hooker, meaning a more expensive
Hooker is likely to score higher.
As consumers, we’ve been conditioned to expect a positive correlation between price and quality. Ever hear the saying “you get what you pay for?”
It turns out that in Hookers and other “positional goods” (what economists call products and services whose value is mostly a function of their desirability), price is often used as a marketing tool. A more expensive price signals value, affluence and high status to potential customers.
As consumers, we often prefer the more expensive good or service over the cheaper one,
even though the cheaper one might satisfy us better. This may be because we enjoy the status that expensive things convey upon us. Your friends know that you like expensive
Hookers, so they perceive you as being high class.
It could also be that we prefer more expensive products just because we’ve been conditioned to expect them to be higher quality.
That’s the power marketing has over us.
There are many companies I've complimented by saying they must have great salesmen.....because their product or service is crap, but they make billions. More power to them....unfortunately.
Originally Posted by GlobeSpotter
Exactly...CD is a great saleswoman. Were fuctards to do a blind taste test on her punnana they would not be able to distinguish it from a top notch BP lady's hoochie.
She is a better marketer...to some. Mostly to the wine snobs who think price always correlates with quality. Which has been proven time and time again not to be true in this type of industry just like it has been proven not true in the wine industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/cheap-wine-vs-expensive-wine_n_2457984.html
THE REDS
Cheap Red
Trader Joe's Charles Shaw Blend Cabernet Sauvignon (a.k.a. Three-Buck Chuck), California, 2011 --
$3
Expensive Red
Laurel Glen Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma Mountain, Californa, 2007 --
$65
Price difference: $62
Tasters' verdict: Only
38 percent of our tasters correctly identified the more expensive wine, and
62 percent preferred the $3 variety from Trader Joe's. Surprising, right? Think about how much more wine those tasters can get for their buck.