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Crow Jane posted:I recently bought a couch online (after admiring and sleeping on the same model while visiting a friend), and have been getting ads for the exact same couch ever since. It's nice and all, but I'm not sure what I'd do with two of them. Ironically, I might actually click on an ad that had coordinating rugs or chairs or whatever, but nope, apparently what I need is a backup couch. Millennials are killing the disposable couch industry 
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cstine posted:And whilst this is anecdotal as all hell, my friends in general thrifty in a way that I know my grandparents (Depression era kids, since I'm old) would have approved of. Fix things that break, buy things second hand, and whatever you do never get in debt because the bank owns you then. Millenials spend money on 'experiences'. Holidays, hobbies etc. Boomers spend money on 'status'.
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cstine posted:And whilst this is anecdotal as all hell, my friends in general thrifty in a way that I know my grandparents (Depression era kids, since I'm old) would have approved of. Fix things that break, buy things second hand, and whatever you do never get in debt because the bank owns you then. I got on well with my granny as yeah, basically everything she drilled into me as a kid (aside from casual racism) is pretty applicable to my life today, cut costs where you can, don't waste, and never ever borrow if you can possibly avoid it. she would be about 75 now but grew up dirt poor in postwar britain so she still had stuff like rationing. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Aug 27, 2017 |
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I have thirty couches. I bought a couch once and amazon just kept hassling me to buy another. So I did. that just made it worse of course. There's no more room in my apartment and amazon keeps yelling at me about these great new and old couches they're selling please help.
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Somewhere there is a startup lauding your couch buying habits as the coming of the couchlife revolution, all furniture will be replaced with couches.
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There's a name for this problem in recommendation matrices but it's slipping my mind.
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Another couch just got delivered the door is blocked now and I can't get out!
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I must destroy these couches before they destroy me.
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I have no bed and I must sleep.
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WrenP-Complete posted:There's a name for this problem in recommendation matrices but it's slipping my mind. Couch overdetermination? Couch unity problem?
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He who buys couches must take care that he does not himself become a couch. And if you gaze long into a couch, the couch gazes also into you.
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Peak couch
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I've got a startup thats aiming to disrupt the couch delivering business.
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serious gaylord posted:Millenials spend money on 'experiences'. Holidays, hobbies etc. Boomers spend money on 'status'. Is there anything to actually back this up? I see it a lot but I'm not sure how true it is. Because I feel like I know a lot of my Millennial peers who are into having as nice a car or whatever as they can. The other thing to consider is that with social media exposure, trendy "experiences" turn into status bragging in the same way. It's just easier and incrementally cheaper to Instagram your daily avocado toast than it is to buy a Beamer or whatever.
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Crow Jane posted:I recently bought a couch online (after admiring and sleeping on the same model while visiting a friend), and have been getting ads for the exact same couch ever since. It's nice and all, but I'm not sure what I'd do with two of them. Ironically, I might actually click on an ad that had coordinating rugs or chairs or whatever, but nope, apparently what I need is a backup couch. That annoys me to no end. Or like a lot of times I'll go somewhere for work and then after I get home I'll get ads for the hotel I just loving stayed at.
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LogisticEarth posted:Is there anything to actually back this up?
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My couches burn, split upon an outdoor pyre. Amazon is silent. I go to enjoy a movie and then I realize I have no couch to sit on. I am free but at what cost.
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Noooo, you were so close to cornering the couchsurfing market. 
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The future's in stackable couches, if you ask me.
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paragon1 posted:I have literally never worked a job that allowed a jeans and tshirt combo on anyone. I work for a F500 company and everyone wears a tshirt and jeans unless they are in clean room gear or are senior managers.
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On the flip side of a F500 company, I work at a supermarket and we wear jeans and t shirts
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Textile lab, generally non-managers wear what they want. One of the technicians apparently had a rep for going commando under her labcoat.
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In my experience, even the millennials who fill their living spaces with overpriced useless garbage (like me) tend towards increasingly niche stuff, hobbies and collectibles. IE, nerds. Which it's hard to advertise for partly because no one wants to admit to catering to nerds and partly because they tend to be ever-increasingly specific and occasionally embarrassing. They just don't want the same poo poo that boomers want. Probably because if they want it they can just buy it second hand from boomers or get it as hand-me-downs. (Except for affordable housing and jobs, of course)
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I'd gladly give over my complete customer profile but so far no company has deigned to offer me just things I want and need, or would like.
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Isn't that an episode of Dark Mirror?
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steer your way past the ruins of the altar and the mall steer your way through the fables of creation and the fall steer your way past the palaces that rise above the rot year by year, month by month, day by day, thought by thought they whisper still, the ancient stones the blunted mountains weep as he died to make men holy let us die to make things cheap and say the mea culpa that you gradually forgot year by year, month by month, day by day, thought by thought
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fishmech posted:I'd gladly give over my complete customer profile but so far no company has deigned to offer me just things I want and need, or would like.  now if they would recommend me a good cheese grater that doesn't suck rear end right after i get frustrated as hell with my garbage rusting janky block grater, that'd be real great since i keep forgetting to buy a new one and everytime i get pissed off i'm like why the gently caress did i not buy a good cheese grater yet. tia advertisers
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serious gaylord posted:I've got a startup thats aiming to disrupt the couch delivering business. Uber, but for couches
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buying couchs is the easy part getting rid of them is hard
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got any sevens posted:Uber, but for couches Couber.
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Xaris posted:
Wait till lowtax sells your post history
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Internet advertising is so hated at least partly because in the old days (and it hasn't gotten much better) it was completely unfiltered and selling people poo poo they couldn't possibly want, when it wasn't flat out scams and malware. And heaven help you if you're outside the US, then you'll see the same five ads from local ad buyers and international chains every time. I think in general the issue with marketing nowadays is that they're desperately trying to sell poo poo No One Wants. Like nearly everything Microsoft has done in the last decade and a half.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm guessing there's going to be more attempts to make internet advertising non subvertible. Otherwise yeah I can't see what they're going to do, the internet's basically replaced TV for everything I would use it for. Pinterest is officially on my poo poo list because you can't image search anything anymore without hitting their lovely rehosting of other sites' content.
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cstine posted:What I've noticed, though, is that we tend to have a hobby or two we're okay spending a lot of money on, but generally don't see the point in new cars, new clothes, new furniture, and anything that my boomer parents would endlessly brag about having to their friends. if it isn't something you critically need or are actually interested in (in which case why not blow $$$ on it to get one quality one that lasts a while and doesn't suck) there's no point spending money on new things all the time *marketers' heads explode*
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I have a theory. Lets test it.sbaldrick posted:I work for a F500 company and everyone wears a tshirt and jeans unless they are in clean room gear or are senior managers. West coast?
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OwlFancier posted:I got on well with my granny as yeah, basically everything she drilled into me as a kid (aside from casual racism) is pretty applicable to my life today, cut costs where you can, don't waste, and never ever borrow if you can possibly avoid it. she would be about 75 now but grew up dirt poor in postwar britain so she still had stuff like rationing.
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OneEightHundred posted:Yeah but one of the most important things for budgeting is paying attention to small but cumulative costs, especially recurring expenses, and I think people are getting worse about doing things like putting their stupidly overpriced phone plan on autopay and forgetting it exists, or indulging in stuff designed to make spending a dollar as easy as humanly possible. Eh? Who really has a stupidly overpriced phone plan anymore and isn't aware of what they're paying?
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Yeah to me that's a sign of having too much money if you don't notice that a chunk of it is missing every month.
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Crow Jane posted:I recently bought a couch online (after admiring and sleeping on the same model while visiting a friend), and have been getting ads for the exact same couch ever since. It's nice and all, but I'm not sure what I'd do with two of them. Ironically, I might actually click on an ad that had coordinating rugs or chairs or whatever, but nope, apparently what I need is a backup couch. Wayfair is so poo poo for this. "You bought a table, eh? Clearly you must be the sort of person that buys two tables a month -- here's a bunch of different tables, as well as the table you just bought!!!! Have you considered buying more tables? Continue to buy tables until literally every part of your home is filled with tables and you have to walk on all your different tables! Then start stacking some tables!" Go away, Wayfair. I'm not that into you.
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