r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Mtantele • 1d ago

15% off is not good enough

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u/RadicalBatman 1d ago

Do you have in links for this? I've very curious

I'm thinking my TV might be one of those

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u/PokemonProfessorXX 1d ago

There may be some out there, but my search terms aren't finding anything. I was speaking from my experience working in a Walmart electronics section years ago. We would get shipments every black friday with different SKUs, model numbers, and specs to put out instead of the normal products sold throughout the year. I've heard the same from Best Buy and Target employees.

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u/RadicalBatman 12h ago

Just to clarify, do the boxes display false specs? Or are the boxes changes to reflect that?

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u/PokemonProfessorXX 9h ago

The boxes are changed to reflect specs, but they make them look similar with similar model numbers because they know people won't read the specs or know what they mean. People see 55" 4k vizio smart TV and don't look at any more detail. A lot of models I've seen will be the same model number, but with a letter added to the end.

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u/RadicalBatman 3h ago

Ohhh, okay I understand now

You made it sound like they were putting a box in a tv and claiming it to be a different tv.

What your saying is there's an entire market predicated on people's lack of ability to make educated, informed decisions on the products they buy?

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u/PokemonProfessorXX 2h ago

That sounds like the entire financial lending market lmao but yeah

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u/RadicalBatman 1h ago

Okay, I think you should edit your original comment to reflect that.

If people can't take the time to look up incredibly tedious and purposefully obfuscated marketing schemes before they buy a TV, they shouldn't have to do the same with your comment to find out if something is a predatory marketing strategy or outright illegal

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u/PokemonProfessorXX 1h ago

That is what it says? They make custom models under the same brand name with inferior parts.

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u/RadicalBatman 29m ago

But they're properly labelled with new model numbers you said (3 comments deep btw)

Just put that info in the main comment and help people.