{"id":6227,"date":"2014-11-26T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T06:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2014-11-26T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T06:16:03","slug":"financially-duped-labels-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/financially-duped-labels-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Financially Duped By Labels And Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always find skits like this hilarious where people are duped into thinking they are using something high end when in reality it\u2019s an affordable everyday item.  This video I saw today was from the show Jimmy Kimmel where apparently there is some kind of nail polish out there by a Christian Louboutin that costs $675 for a tiny bottle.  The experiment was to tell people that they were using this item and the results were entertaining as you can see here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inGZFan1Y0s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Does stuff like this ever make you think about all the stuff you pay for and how much of it is simply marketing?  I know computers are often like this where the parts can literally be the same between two machines.  But the difference on how one costs $2000 and the other $1200 is simply the brand marketing and implied perception that one is better.  Knowing exactly what you are buying can sure save you a lot of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find skits like this hilarious where people are duped into thinking they are using something high end when in reality it\u2019s an affordable everyday item. This video I saw today was from the show Jimmy Kimmel where apparently there is some kind of nail polish out there by a Christian Louboutin that costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5315,5316,21,801,5314,821],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-consumer-knowledge","tag-luxury-pricing","tag-money","tag-perception","tag-shopping-knowledge","tag-value"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stock.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1Cr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}