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What products prey on stupid people?

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    #32
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,284 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I think there's a lot of pseudo-intellectual sneering at people who do the lotto. I'm sure that most people know the odds of winning are incredibly slim but while they have that ticket they can fantasise about having no money worries, taking exotic holidays, buying a beautiful home, driving an amazing car, looking after their kids' futures and so on.


    I don't drink or smoke and do the lottto when the prize is big and I get the odd scratch card.


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    #33
    readyletsgo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    RedTie wrote: »
    Kids will always latch onto crazy stuff and parents will always have to buy them.

    Ever wonder why the "most popular" toy sells out every Christmas? It's all manufactured to happen that way to cause a frenzy.

    Yes I know that ðŸ˜

    But it's not just kids, adults too.


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    #34
    eyerer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    RedTie wrote: »
    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    A lot of health food products!

    Seconded.

    The majority of protein bars are about as good for you as a Snickers or a Mars bar.
    I've seen Mars Protein Bars :D
    Mad really, but also expensive


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    #35
    funnights74
    Registered Users Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    The shopping channels on satellite TV are full of nonsense rubbish, those exercise machines where they use body builders to convince people they can look like this in a month are ridiculous. Abs developers are another scam. A fool and his/her money......


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    #36
    RedTie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭RedTie


    justshane wrote: »
    Selfie sticks.


    I think this come in very handy if doing a solo holiday and you dont want to ask a random stranger to take a pic of you with your $700 phone. I dont own one but have definitely considered buying one.


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    #37
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Mobile phone insurance


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    #38
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I don't drink or smoke and do the lottto when the prize is big and I get the odd scratch card.

    Because the regular couple of million isn't enough for you?


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    #39
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Bookies.


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Multivitamins and most "extract" products.


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    #41
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Perfidious yoghurt or whatever it's called.


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    #42
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,284 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Because the regular couple of million isn't enough for you?

    When I want to do something I want to make sure it's worth while!


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    #43
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #44
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,562 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    Here you are on boards, wasting all your hard-earned words on us strangers.


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    #45
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,293 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    theteal wrote: »
    Not sure if joke. . . .

    You weren't concerned about book's...

    I think he was going for obvious joke is obvious


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    #46
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Cars, phones, gym membership.

    And most of all, pints or bottles in our rip off pubs


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    #47
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,239 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Homeopathy.
    'Psychic' mediums.
    Homeopathy.

    I included homeopathy twice, because everybody with a health insurance policy pays for it, as all providers cover it, and some idiots claim for it.


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    #48
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭tastyt


    SKY tv.

    Two hundred channels and nothing on


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    #49
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Smartphones. Especially the phones that make people queue up for a day to fork out a grand for a product a tiny bit faster and lighter than the one you bought less than a year ago.


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    #50
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,856 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Religion.

    No shortage of brainwashed mugs.


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    #51
    RedTie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 142 ✭✭RedTie


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Strongly disagree.

    Memories is what you'd have. I'd take seeing some of the world over the latest gimmicky phone every time.


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    #52
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Religion.

    No shortage of brainwashed mugs.

    Ah Religion, that widely bought product that goes into every shopping trolley at your local Tesco Value Super Store.


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    #53
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    What marketing and advertising?

    Most of it?


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    #54
    mick.oleary
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 76 ✭✭mick.oleary


    Aeroplane tickets that are orders of magnitude more expensive than the competitors that are Always Getting Better (TM) just because they bring you to an airport that is a couple of miles closer to your destination...

    Cheers,
    Mick


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    #55
    Vex Willems
    Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Vex Willems


    Burial. wrote: »
    Ah Religion, that widely bought product that goes into every shopping trolley at your local Tesco Value Super Store.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg


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    #56
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    Cologne and Perfume.

    80 euro for smelly water


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    #57
    mick.oleary
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 76 ✭✭mick.oleary


    RedTie wrote: »
    Strongly disagree.

    Memories is what you'd have. I'd take seeing some of the world over the latest gimmicky phone every time.

    I never really understood why some people are obsessed with seeing the world. I always thought that it was the people you met in your life that were important and not the environment...Maybe you can share your perspective.

    Although I agree with you about gimmicky phones and I have had my fair share.


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    #58
    discobeaker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭discobeaker


    Beats headphones.

    ****e headphones at ridiculous prices but are a "must have" cos famous people are seen with them

    Headphones aimed at dickheads


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    #59
    BillyBobBS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    Smoking is the obvious one but iv'e never bought bottled water in my life. It comes out of my tap through my taxes so i ain't paying twice.


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    #60
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #61
    shygal
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭shygal


    Phonewatch, gamestop, educogym


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