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Freedomofspeech

(4,227 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:27 AM Feb 2013

So the TV ads for The Pittsburgh Gun Show....

have a voice-over that says, "Protect your Second Amendment rights, buy your guns while you can.". Nothing like getting our redneck population even more riled up here in Southwest PA. Thank you NRA.

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So the TV ads for The Pittsburgh Gun Show.... (Original Post) Freedomofspeech Feb 2013 OP

Nothing moves product like fear! Pholus Feb 2013 #1

Fear absolutely is the best motivator to sell something Sedona Feb 2013 #2

Pholus

(4,062 posts)

1. Nothing moves product like fear!

Reply to Freedomofspeech (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:28 AM

Feb 2013

And like that Rolling Stone article shows pretty conclusively, thirty years of gun misery have largely been about moving product.

Sedona

(3,769 posts)

2. Fear absolutely is the best motivator to sell something

Reply to Freedomofspeech (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 09:40 AM

Feb 2013

In a former life I was very briefly a timeshare salesperson. The main motivator we were told to pitch was "fear of loss".
Loss of youth, loss of your marriage, loss of time with your children, all "solved" by buying an overpriced timeshare.

PS you can buy timeshares for the cost of the closing costs (around $500) on Ebay.

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