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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!rwing!fnx!nazgul!bright
- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Video Only ad
- Keywords: stupid
- Message-ID: <1542@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 18:46:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.211412.5522@u.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Distribution: seattle
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
- Lines: 11
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- In article <1992Dec22.211412.5522@u.washington.edu> cummings@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Cummings) writes:
- /There's an ad for "Video Only" on TV where they solicit
- /testimonials from a bunch of Plain Folks about how cheap everything is
- /there. One guy make the comment (not quite verbatim), "I checked around,
- /and everything here is about 12% less. But that 12% is like 50% to me."
- / Anyone have any idea what this could possibly mean?
-
- Suppose the guy makes $100/yr. Assume that $90 goes for essentials like
- food, rent and taxes. That leaves $10 for discretionary spending. If he
- saves 12% on everything, that leaves $20 for discretionary spending, so
- it is like his income 'doubles'.
-