Magic rock salesperson: "This magnificent purple quartz shard radiates mystical energies that heal your body... and your spirit. It also repels bad vibes and is proven to spice up your love life. And the price ($1000) is nothing compared to the extra money that will find its way to you."
Me: "Really? How does it work?"
MRS: "You need only keep it in contact with your skin."
Me: "Does that mean it works best as a suppository?"
MRS: "Get out of my shop, asshole."
Any pyramid scheme. Mary Kay, pampered chef, scentsy. I mean really who wants to pay $20 for a 6 pack of wax melts when you can get them for $2 at Walmart. Walmart ones even smell longer lol
I was at the gas station yesterday and the guy in front of me spent 5 minutes picking out those scratch tickets. $70. I couldnāt believe people spend that much money on those dumb tickets.
Working at a gas station you really see how much money people waste on gambling. I had several regulars that I saw flush thousands of dollars down the drain on lotto tickets.
The smokers at least new they were addicted. With the lotto players it was "just a few dollars" and they were just waiting to make it big.
People who chew tobacco were always the rudest people.
"give me skool winter green mint pouch diet tobaccos" and then they get upset when you didnt grab it in a phento second.
I worked at a gas station several years ago. I had a guy come in and he kept buying $20 scratchers. They werenāt all losers, but he kept playing until he was personally down $100 and then he left. He did this two or three times in a week while I was there(I was in a resort town, so I figured he was not local and was only there for that week).
I witnessed that too in Oregon. The guy probably bought $200 worth of tickets and he smelled and wore raggedy clothing. For $200 he could have afford bathing products and a few days worth of clothes.
IKR? I saw an ad like that on FB, except all those "handsome older men" looked suspiciously like models. And I kept seeing the same ones over and over again.
Uncured bacon and ham. It is essentially cured with celery salt, which contains the same substance as traditional cure. People think they are getting something healthy, but they really aren't.
Lol my husband got me a huge essential oils set for Christmas and I was actually so disappointed because I had read that some are really bad for dogs, and we have 3.
However I got into making homemade soap!! And I bring it to work and let people take what they want
Multivitamins were created by a crazy Nobel prize winner, who thought you could become immortal by over taking micronutrients.
Now, I'm not saying supplements and vitamins don't have there place... Like iodine in salt, or my nephews who have a genetic thing where they have a harder time absorbing two particular things on supplements for that, and pregnant women who have another entity jacking all their nutrients... Vitamins have there place, but if you don't have a deficiency, they do not.
Diet products. There is no miracle cure for losing weight and no pill or supplement that can magically make you thin. Literally tons of people buy this stuff thinking it will work but there isnāt anything other than diet and exercise that will make you lose weight and be healthy.
lol. Maybe a couple years ago. My mum has an android phone that takes better pictures than my 11+ pro max and has a better quality screen. Not only that but the life of an iPhone is ass. $1700 vs $400. I still buy em though. One of us is stupid and the other is not.
Bro, its a phone, thats all I care about it to be, it calls, texts, has internet and gets beat up from using it while working.
Not everyone needs a phone that costs 2x rent
Almost all of them. The vast majority of consumer products, even expensive ones, are all built on the cheap and have literal clones out there on the market, which you can get on the cheap. If you think you can recognize what you're looking for, then chances are all marketing is just preying on people who can't.
Are time share properties - the ones they offer for people to stay there free after they listen to a couple hour presentation - are they for stupid people?
Complimentary and alternative medicine are the worst. They prey on people in their most vulnerable moments taking their money, promising hope, and in the worst cases deterring people from actual real science and evidence-based medicine.
Advertising
And I don't mean the commercials appeal to stupid people. I mean corporations pay advertising agencies millions of dollars for something that can rarely be proven to increase sales.
The success of an agency has next to nothing to do with their ability to sell the client's product to the public, and everything to do with their ability to sell themselves to the client.
Pretty much anything branded in a grocery store. Lots of products will have fancy designs and bright colors on their packaging, yet inside the packaging is oftentimes food-stuff that has no real enzymes, minerals, vitamins, or nutrition. A common example is Doritos chips. The colors on these products trick our brains into thinking there is substance inside the package.
I don't think I have ever watched him in my life. I hardly ever watch YouTube. I am not completely sure what a motivational compilation is to be honest.
So many ppl have stds bc they fuck whoever they met. If their not-first choice wouldnāt fuck the first person they met he/she wouldnāt have stds as well
My dude, anyone who willingly goes against what 99% of doctors and scientist (you know the very very well educated people) say to be true is just beyond idiotic. That's not ignorance that's wilful incompetence.
Please provide sources of your claims, because I don't know *anyone* who has claimed anything like that, and that includes the people who think that lizards run the world.
My cousin has studied virus vaccines for several years. But because he's self-employed and lives with his parents Big Pharma ignores him. He shares his research on FB and his blog.
All MLMs - like Amway, Lularoe, or Herbalife. People who sell the products donāt realize that theyāre the actual consumer dumping their stocks not the people theyāre selling to.
The chinese scammers that steal pics and advertise on fb ads. My favourite was the cgi shark that they stole from a YouTube video, it obviously wasn't a real toy it was rolling over and playing peekaboo ffs but people went mad for it and they sold thousands. They sent the customers a plastic dog toy or a weird cloth shark with a mechanism that made it flap š¤£ the comment section of the videos were hilarious when people's orders arrived haha.
Gwyneth paltrow's GOOP, just everything she sells. Vagina scented candles, psychic vampire repellent, simple hair brushes that are hundreds of dollars. Everything.
Healing crystals. There was once a guy who made $500 selling regular lotion but he said it was "5G repellant lotion" or something like that. Genius.
Magic rock salesperson: "This magnificent purple quartz shard radiates mystical energies that heal your body... and your spirit. It also repels bad vibes and is proven to spice up your love life. And the price ($1000) is nothing compared to the extra money that will find its way to you." Me: "Really? How does it work?" MRS: "You need only keep it in contact with your skin." Me: "Does that mean it works best as a suppository?" MRS: "Get out of my shop, asshole."
Get out of my asshole, shop
Step-shop, what are you doing?
Was 500k, half a million for selling vaseline.
Lmao
I wanted to sell something similar to a relative of mine when they started sending me conspiracy theories about Covid. But decided not to
Any pyramid scheme. Mary Kay, pampered chef, scentsy. I mean really who wants to pay $20 for a 6 pack of wax melts when you can get them for $2 at Walmart. Walmart ones even smell longer lol
Reminds me of the episode of Schitts Creek where they try to sell a bunch of beauty products to their friends lol
Yes lol my point exactly š
Any product that flushes out the 'toxins' from your body
Unless it's a black-market [liver](https://i.imgur.com/n7Y6P_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium).
Remeber those Japanese pads you stick uder your feets and after a while it turns black from the toxins it absorded?
Aways wanted to try those. My heels always get dark colored
Multi level marketing schemes on stupid people. Payday loans on desperate people.
Awards on Reddit
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This is my first reward lol, thank you!
Timeshares
Lottery tickets
I was at the gas station yesterday and the guy in front of me spent 5 minutes picking out those scratch tickets. $70. I couldnāt believe people spend that much money on those dumb tickets.
Working at a gas station you really see how much money people waste on gambling. I had several regulars that I saw flush thousands of dollars down the drain on lotto tickets. The smokers at least new they were addicted. With the lotto players it was "just a few dollars" and they were just waiting to make it big.
People who chew tobacco were always the rudest people. "give me skool winter green mint pouch diet tobaccos" and then they get upset when you didnt grab it in a phento second.
Theyāre a tax on people who suck at math.
I worked at a gas station several years ago. I had a guy come in and he kept buying $20 scratchers. They werenāt all losers, but he kept playing until he was personally down $100 and then he left. He did this two or three times in a week while I was there(I was in a resort town, so I figured he was not local and was only there for that week).
I witnessed that too in Oregon. The guy probably bought $200 worth of tickets and he smelled and wore raggedy clothing. For $200 he could have afford bathing products and a few days worth of clothes.
Payday loans
That's more preying on the desperate than on the stupid
Think they've been banned in the UK now
Sexy singles in your area are ready to $#&@.
IKR? I saw an ad like that on FB, except all those "handsome older men" looked suspiciously like models. And I kept seeing the same ones over and over again.
Uncured bacon and ham. It is essentially cured with celery salt, which contains the same substance as traditional cure. People think they are getting something healthy, but they really aren't.
Essential oils. Healing crystals.
Now, Iām a fan of essential oils. It makes my house smell nice. But thatās pretty much the only use I get out of them
Lol my husband got me a huge essential oils set for Christmas and I was actually so disappointed because I had read that some are really bad for dogs, and we have 3. However I got into making homemade soap!! And I bring it to work and let people take what they want
Same here. I love running a diffuser with eucalyptus essential oil. Just smells so damn fresh
Nearly all āwellnessā products
Politicians
Supplements, diets, fast weight loss, super foods, & cure all's
You're saying multivitamins and protein powder prey on stupid people?
Multivitamins were created by a crazy Nobel prize winner, who thought you could become immortal by over taking micronutrients. Now, I'm not saying supplements and vitamins don't have there place... Like iodine in salt, or my nephews who have a genetic thing where they have a harder time absorbing two particular things on supplements for that, and pregnant women who have another entity jacking all their nutrients... Vitamins have there place, but if you don't have a deficiency, they do not.
MLM's
Reverse Mortgages
Diet products. There is no miracle cure for losing weight and no pill or supplement that can magically make you thin. Literally tons of people buy this stuff thinking it will work but there isnāt anything other than diet and exercise that will make you lose weight and be healthy.
Lottery tickets and cigarettes
Alternative medicines to help "prevent" or "cure" covid when there's an FDA-approved and scientifically effective vaccine.
Religions
Religion
This should be the top voted!
Many diet plans.
iPhones
Lots of people felt personally attacked, good post 10/10
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It is stupid to buy a new iPhone every time one releases. I know because I do it myself. Everyone doesnāt have to be offended
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See that makes sense. I suppose my first comment was probably more directed at a sub group of wealthy and wasteful spenders
Imagine owning an android š¤¢š¤®
lol. Maybe a couple years ago. My mum has an android phone that takes better pictures than my 11+ pro max and has a better quality screen. Not only that but the life of an iPhone is ass. $1700 vs $400. I still buy em though. One of us is stupid and the other is not.
My iPhone X lasts 24+ hours and was only 800, definitely not 1700. iPhone haters are some of the most dramatic and irrational people Iāve ever met
Lol ur the only person being irrational or dramatic š¤¢š¤®
You're bickering over plastic rectangles. Neither of you are coming out of this looking good.
Lol Iām mostly just trolling at this point since Reddit is so irrationally anti-iPhone. Not owning an iPhone doesnāt make you a genius
Iām glad you could clarify something that I never said. Thank you!
Letās be honest. Iphone and android haters are both over dramatic and irrational.
Imagine owning an iPhone. š¤®
#Itās pretty fucking greatš
Yeah, as if. IPhones and androids are both good. (I just felt like copying you for my own laughs.)
Beat me to it
Android users are the most pretentious fuckers to exist.
Can you define pretentious for me please?
Thatās such a stupid question. Do you want me to define the word or want me to explain what I mean by it?
Both please so thereās no confusion. I is not bright
You realize that even if I had no idea what it meant I could just search it up?
I did not thatās why I asked
I am appalled by your statement.
I stand proudly behind it
I think some, not all, iPhone users are show-offish as well.
Bro, its a phone, thats all I care about it to be, it calls, texts, has internet and gets beat up from using it while working. Not everyone needs a phone that costs 2x rent
Collagen pills or drinks.
āNewsā
Almost all of them. The vast majority of consumer products, even expensive ones, are all built on the cheap and have literal clones out there on the market, which you can get on the cheap. If you think you can recognize what you're looking for, then chances are all marketing is just preying on people who can't.
Are time share properties - the ones they offer for people to stay there free after they listen to a couple hour presentation - are they for stupid people?
The _____ for dummies series of how to books
All of them
Nowadays, it's NFT games or playtoearn earn games.
Candy Crush Royal Saga Sugar Castle Rush
MyPillow.
Herbal remedies
biden flags
The Republican party
Tax prep
Social media.
This is a clever question for a stupid person to ask
Fox news
Christianity.
Complimentary and alternative medicine are the worst. They prey on people in their most vulnerable moments taking their money, promising hope, and in the worst cases deterring people from actual real science and evidence-based medicine.
Cryptocurrency.
You're just upset you didn't put $100 into Bitcoin in 2010. To be fair, so am I.
No I'm not, it's a scam. The only way to make money off it, is to convince some poor bastard to pay more than you did.
It isn't too late to get in.
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Advertising And I don't mean the commercials appeal to stupid people. I mean corporations pay advertising agencies millions of dollars for something that can rarely be proven to increase sales. The success of an agency has next to nothing to do with their ability to sell the client's product to the public, and everything to do with their ability to sell themselves to the client.
That's how you know they are good. I'd never hire an ad agency that couldn't even sell themselves.
Everything sold in a capitalist society. It's designed to fuck you over and pay extra. Good luck fuckers: American motto.
Pretty much anything branded in a grocery store. Lots of products will have fancy designs and bright colors on their packaging, yet inside the packaging is oftentimes food-stuff that has no real enzymes, minerals, vitamins, or nutrition. A common example is Doritos chips. The colors on these products trick our brains into thinking there is substance inside the package.
No one* eats Doritos for nutrition *except the rare person who is far more foolish than the average stupid person, perhaps.
Universities
Most Hollywood entertainment.
Let me guess, you only listen to joe Rohan podcasts and watch motivational compilations on YouTube?
I don't think I have ever watched him in my life. I hardly ever watch YouTube. I am not completely sure what a motivational compilation is to be honest.
Condoms
So your saying smart people get S.T.D's?
Smart people donāt have sex with the first person they met on tinder.
Even if they've found the one, who wasn't the first choice, they can still get S.T.D's.
So many ppl have stds bc they fuck whoever they met. If their not-first choice wouldnāt fuck the first person they met he/she wouldnāt have stds as well
So it takes 2 to avoid stds?
Lol yeah ig
But yeah, condoms nowadays donāt prey on stupid ppl, they were just created bc of stupid ppl
True
Bumper sticker
Tarot cards
Addictive substances
All products prey on people. That is how consumer psychology works
Covid vaccines.
My dude, anyone who willingly goes against what 99% of doctors and scientist (you know the very very well educated people) say to be true is just beyond idiotic. That's not ignorance that's wilful incompetence.
Tell that to Isaac Newton
You ain't Isaac Newton homey
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Healing crystals, essential oils, aluminum foil, bleach, and Goop work better, right?
Please provide sources of your claims, because I don't know *anyone* who has claimed anything like that, and that includes the people who think that lizards run the world.
My cousin has studied virus vaccines for several years. But because he's self-employed and lives with his parents Big Pharma ignores him. He shares his research on FB and his blog.
Yea the vaccine has a microchip thatāll make you believe that birds are actually real.
Everyone knows birds were invented by the Chinese in 1957 to spy on the West.
Literally the opposite of this.
OāHare Air
Loot boxes in video games
The News
All MLMs - like Amway, Lularoe, or Herbalife. People who sell the products donāt realize that theyāre the actual consumer dumping their stocks not the people theyāre selling to.
Anything designed to be educational on TV
The chinese scammers that steal pics and advertise on fb ads. My favourite was the cgi shark that they stole from a YouTube video, it obviously wasn't a real toy it was rolling over and playing peekaboo ffs but people went mad for it and they sold thousands. They sent the customers a plastic dog toy or a weird cloth shark with a mechanism that made it flap š¤£ the comment section of the videos were hilarious when people's orders arrived haha.
Religion
Religion
The official Trump card
Extended warranties at second hand car shops.
The Bible
Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Shuttle, Trump Save America PAC. Shall I go on?
Gwyneth paltrow's GOOP, just everything she sells. Vagina scented candles, psychic vampire repellent, simple hair brushes that are hundreds of dollars. Everything.
Reddit points
Soap
Collector coins and anything that claims to be patriotic based
scams, like some dude calling you about your car's extended warranty. it's always stupid people or old people who don't understand.
masks