Posted by RH Gyrl on 16/2/2005, 4:47 am, in reply to "Re: The new and improved thread :)" Pharmaceuticals are a rip off. There are generic version of almost every drug, but they like to push the namebrands. There is such a deregulation in price. I just feel bad for those who don't have insurance to cover it, especially some of the elderly who live on very fixed income. Tesco is that a supermarket? "Same low price" is another popular one. The price stays the same, but they reduce the contents. A bag of crisps use to be full of crisps, now for the same price I get a bunch of air and a lot less crisps. It should say "Same low price with much fewer crisps" lol! --Previous Message--
Sorry it's taken me so long to post a reply. I've just been upto my neck with school work.
: Yeah that's very true. Also, the brand named
: painkillers cost so much more than the
: generic ones that have exactly the same
: amount of the same active ingredients. What
: a con..
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: Another one is Tesco (I'll happily dob them
: in because everybody knows they do this
: stuff anyway LOL) We'd been buying milk from
: them for ages at 28p a pint. One week it had
: a red sign next to it saying 'new low
: price!' which is intended to make you
: believe they'd dropped the price; however,
: they'd actually raised it to 30p. They
: weren't lying though, it was a low price,
: and it was new.. but it wasn't as exciting a
: deal as they'd led us to believe LOL
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: Excellent point on the concept of
: improvement!
: Like they say two heads are better than one.
: Lies or play on words is how they get
: consumers everytime.
:
: Here's another one to think about....
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: No other pain reliever is more effective
: than Ouch. (Ouch is a ficticious name I am
: using for the sake of this example).
:
: A quick reading of that sentence might lead
: you to the impression that Ouch is more
: effective than any other pain reliever,
: especially because you see the words
: "more effective". This reading,
: however, is incorrect. The assertion here
: is only that no other pain reliever is more
: effective; in other words, Ouch is at least
: as effective as other pain relievers. If it
: read, Ouch, is at least as effective as
: other pain releivers it is unlikey to sell a
: lot.
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: Hahaha that's very true.. after all if it's
: new it can't be an improvement, because
: there wasn't a predecessor. Damn their
: lies!!! LOL If I see new and improved on a
: product I always worry, because it usually
: means they loused it up!
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: --Previous Message--
: Well here it is the "new and
: improved" thread. I never understood
: the logic behind a product being new and
: improved. A product is either new or it's
: improved. Making an existing item better
: doesn't qualify it as new or does it?
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: I did see a listing of shows Needledrop did
: last fall. There was actually only one in my
: area, but it would have been nice to go.
: Hopefully they'll tour again!
:
: Oh I heard Paul McCartney played at halftime
: during the Superbowl yesterday. Paul's
: making a come back (the new and improved
: Paul-lol)
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: you're right about the new thread; however,
: I seem to be rubbish at starting new ones,
: so I had better leave that to you LOL
: Needledrop did a few shows last November
: didn't they. I didn't get to any of them
: though, the nearest to me was still too far
: away. I'd love to see them though.
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