prodigyplace wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:45 am
I find it curious that our sponsors, . . . decided to sell this.
I don't. The luxury-priced items deserve a place on the same shelf with the generics.
I realize that my opinions often deviate from what is standard (understatement of the month?), but as much as I hate the misleading SoClean machine
commercials, I don't mind the sellers/resellers selling the machine. And I wouldn't even mind if our sponsors sold the machine, for that matter. After all, if people want one (bless their little hearts), they ought to be able to get one from a reputable, service-oriented business.
My position is that if people were suddenly to limit their purchases to things that were actually useful and needed and economical, the entire world economy would collapse.
Ring around the collar didn't exist until an ad said that it did. (And it would probably make a lot more sense in general if people just washed their necks a little better instead.) Same with most all so-called "cleaning" products. When you want to sell a product or widget for "cleaning," the first step is to hire an agency to overstate the case for it, in order to create a market for the product.
It's just that the SoClean company, in my opinion, far and away oversteps the line of propriety into morally/ethically/legally shaky areas in how they are going about it with what is stated in their ads, especially since CPAP is a medical device that saves lives but that is fighting an uphill battle because unknowing people are looking for excuses to avoid using it.