20 y.o Corsa valuation

JustAnotherSaver

phill99 wrote: »

Wrong. People will buy what they are told to buy.

May come as a surprise to you, certainly wont to others, but i do what i want (within reason). I've been 'told' to buy plenty over the years. I buy what i want to. If i don't want it, i don't buy it.

Mercdriver

phill99 wrote: »

Wrong. People will buy what they are told to buy. Remember the product in the 1980s and 90s called Shake and Vac. You poured it on your carpet and then hovered it up.


Since carpets were invented we had no need to do this but along come marketeers and tell that we need a product, the benefit of which is nothing.

Subtle but important difference.

People are often persuaded that they need to replace their perfectly working car with a newer car on the basis that a newer car is less likely to fail (even though this is not necessarily true). They are persuaded even further by being given a payment scheme where it looks like they cannot lose, and it is really cheap - only £50 a week - equivalent to a takeaway meal a day, give or take.

If marketing told people what to buy, they wouldn't do it. The joy of clever marketing is it turns a desire into a need.

JustAnotherSaver

Mercdriver wrote: »

- only £50 a week - equivalent to a takeaway meal a day, give or take. .

Hell fire and I thought I ordered a lot when I ordered :rotfl: maybe yours are just more up market


relax...I’m joking

AdrianC

phill99 wrote: »

Wrong. People will buy what they are told to buy. Remember the product in the 1980s and 90s called Shake and Vac. You poured it on your carpet and then hovered it up.

Since carpets were invented we had no need to do this but along come marketeers and tell that we need a product, the benefit of which is nothing.

I vaguely remember the ads. I don't remember the product, because I never bought it.

Or Smash.
Or R Whites Lemonade.
Or Ready Brek.
Or...

phill99

AdrianC wrote: »

I vaguely remember the ads. I don't remember the product, because I never bought it.

Or Smash.
Or R Whites Lemonade.
Or Ready Brek.
Or...

But the difference was that people have bought instant potato, fizzy drinks and porridge oats for decades. All have a use and a function. But at what point did we decide that pouring talcum powder on the carpet and then vacuuming it back up was necessary? It was a pointless product that had no benefit to consumers whatsoever, but the marketing men made us run out and buy it by the ton.

Richard53

phill99 wrote: »

But the difference was that people have bought instant potato, fizzy drinks and porridge oats for decades. All have a use and a function. But at what point did we decide that pouring talcum powder on the carpet and then vacuuming it back up was necessary? It was a pointless product that had no benefit to consumers whatsoever, but the marketing men made us run out and buy it by the ton.

The advert (with that stupid, witless song) has been voted Most Irritating Ad in TV History many times. And yet the product was massively successful, thereby disproving the idea many people have that bad/annoying advertising turns people off a product.

seatbeltnoob

AdrianC wrote: »

Yet 20-odd years ago, both were very much rarities. And we coped just fine.

we drive more and for longer now, so when we were able to cope before, we can't cope now.


do a stretch from london to lake district in the summer without AC and windows down at 70mph if you want to endure torture. I'd prefer to have AC

AdrianC

seatbeltnoob wrote: »

we drive more and for longer now, so when we were able to cope before, we can't cope now.

No, annual average mileages haven't increased markedly in the UK.



We've just got soft and used to the fripperies.

[Deleted User]

How come there are less petrol stations yet more cars on the roads these days?

15-20 years ago there was 5 petrol stations in my town and 1 in the next village. Now we only have 3 in my town and none in the next village.

Or is it just badly positioned stations have closed in favour of new ones built in better locations?

Car_54

Deleted_User wrote: »

How come there are less petrol stations yet more cars on the roads these days?

15-20 years ago there was 5 petrol stations in my town and 1 in the next village. Now we only have 3 in my town and none in the next village.

Or is it just badly positioned stations have closed in favour of new ones built in better locations?

One major factor is the very small profit margins. Small independents have closed, and the others make their money from the shops.
Also, more cars don’t mean more fuel. MPG is generally much better than decades ago.