No Hidden Fees!*
*Other than monthly account fees, balance check fees, money withdrawal fees, money deposit fees, cheque deposit fees, money order fees, foreign currency exchange fees, atm fees, overdraw fees and the your bank manager wants a bonus fee....... 
Not so much a marketing buzword but more a marketing concept that really pizzes me off. The extended warranty.
Why the flock have consumers embraced this absolute rip-off. It does nothing to encourage manufacturers to to better engineer their products, but instead rewards them through de-facto consumer complacency. Consumers have been suckered into expecting a short lifespan of a product, probably due to a trade-off on price, and then they pay for the privilege of "protecting" themselves against this. Is it really so unreasonable to expect a service life of, say, 10 years for a TV?
So you get a basic warranty of one or maybe two years. Then for an extra couple of hundred bucks, you pay extra to protect yourself if the product fails perhaps in a further two years, but usually still well before the end of what you should expect to get out of a product.
As far as I am concerned, a TV that only lasts for 6 years before being beyond economic repair would not have been of merchantable quality in the first place. But we are unlikely to see laws that prescribe how long something shoud last. Here endeth the rant.
(privately) "We are going to put prices up 30% after Christmas"
(after Christmas) "30% off everything sale!"
I notice that the final actual discount is remarkably close to the original GST value. Something smells there, eh?
"Gift Voucher"
What are they, really? It's a scam. It is saying "Here's some money, but you can only spend it at this store and any money left over, change, will probably be forfeited".
Give me cash. Works even more betterer.
When your looking at a run out car or anything - The Salesslob goes -Ill just check the warehouse - yep theres one last one in that colour / size / shape in the warehouse - make a decision now put a deposit and I'll secure it for you and you'll have it by the end of the day.
Yeah I've got a nice green one in the warehouse I've reserved for Bloody sales people that feed you ****e -- hock hock spiiiit!!!!
Bottled water.
Had a presentation from a rep flogging (can't remember) and the main thrust of his spiel was the green credentials of his product. Of course he furnished his presentation with a table full of bottled water.
That tool that was doing the "rugs a million" commercials, a different sale every week. My accountant says its all gotta go/ I've ordered too many containers its all gotta go/ The economic crunch is sending me broke its all gotta go/ Store closing down its all gotta go. was $1000 slashed to 500 this weekend 250 plus another 50 off for cash, we'll pay the gst etc etc
Anything with "i" in front of it gives me the sh!ts big time.
Somewhere out there is a marketing fkn "genius" who thinks plonking an "i" in front of the product suddenly makes the product more appealing to younger generation/ more techsavy.
DAMN YOU APPLE! Look what you've done to vegemite!
(Sorry Starboard...I like your boards though...)
" HAGGLE "......." HAGGLE "....sorry that's South Australian centric..WALOC? 
and Hardley Normal.....going on about why we are not buying Australian...he dosnt have an Aussie product ...it's all imported 
Spotted Dog! WTFIHO?
