utopia

原帖由 Alcoholic 於 2008-1-24 13:21 發表
ovaltine,
i know... what you say is true. just like those make-up companies get me EVERY SINGLE TIME. every year, there's a "new collection" for every season. how many girls need new eyeshadow, nail p ...

Hahaha, twin, you are like that too??
I stopped doing that for a year after receiving constant lecture from caveman ...

Every single time I meet up with my sister-in-law; we are like selling each product to each other like "You know what? It's such a magic product that make this and this and this and this"....

Then when you open our drawn............there are unlimited supply of cosmetic kakaka

Then this Christmas, I went back to the island.. and she started to promote some lip gross to me... hahaha, then I looked at her and asked "I thought you just told me the other lip gross is the best....... "

I am not sure about how those cosmetic got ya...

But those make-up demo from TW show......make me WANT TO HAVE THEM RIGHT THE WAY, NO MATTER WHAT~~~

Alcoholic

if you come over tomorrow night or sat.... you will see i have enough makeup for 2 professional makeup artists lor.
JUST blush ja... i have SEVEN (Dior, Dior, Ipsa, Amarni, RMK, Chantecaille, Shiseido) aiiiii you do NOT wanna know how much eye shadows, liners, powder, palettes etc i have of each.

those companies' sales/marketing stratagies are absolute inteligent lor

utopia

原帖由 Alcoholic 於 2008-1-24 14:10 發表
if you come over tomorrow night or sat.... you will see i have enough makeup for 2 professional makeup artists lor.
JUST blush ja... i have SEVEN (Dior, Dior, Ipsa, Amarni, RMK, Chantecaille, Shiseid ...

Guess I don't have to bring anything and I just need to sit there and let you to do professional make over on me

utopia

原帖由 Alcoholic 於 2008-1-24 14:10 發表
if you come over tomorrow night or sat.... you will see i have enough makeup for 2 professional makeup artists lor.
JUST blush ja... i have SEVEN (Dior, Dior, Ipsa, Amarni, RMK, Chantecaille, Shiseid ...

Well, I threw away a lot of aged old cosmetic in my draw when I moved over...

So I try to stay away from Metrotown or Downtown ..........hahaha, or else my hand will be itchy hehehehee

asmok

When you have a close friend that studies marketing, you'll know all the tricks including those that are not listed.

yungfourfour

Those are true.... but quite out-dated
Prices in safeway and superstore showed Price/volume nowadays...

For $9.99 thing ... it works in places where additional taxes don't apply....just my 2 cents

For consumer items.... if I like it and the price is good I'd buy it.... instead of choosing b/t 20% then 30% off or just 45% off ga ma

puZZle

原帖由 asmok 於 2008-1-24 22:20 發表
When you have a close friend that studies marketing, you'll know all the tricks including those that are not listed.

interestingly, i learned much of the tips from soci instead of marketing

阿邊個邊個

原帖由 asmok 於 2008-1-24 22:20 發表
When you have a close friend that studies marketing, you'll know all the tricks including those that are not listed.

that's so true....after i took marketing courses, i have became a smarter customer, not buying into the bait the beauty/ cosemetics company lure d out.... but it is funny that my best friend took more marketing courses than i do and yet she still buy stuff... a complusive shopper i must say... sometimes when we shop, i am the one who hold back and she is the one that ended up spending $100+....

hoshi

I really don't think anyone needs to study anything.  As long as one is poor, he/she automatically won't fall into those traps.  On the same token as long as one has spare money to spend, he/she would buy no matter what they have studied or knew.  

blueprint

I think it depends. There are people who likes to get things this and that even though he/she can't really afford it.  They may try to get $ by trying to swipe master cards, visa cards, whatever.   So I think the spending comes down one important thing: self-control.