Mummelmann said:
bucky1965 said:
Mummelmann said:
bucky1965 said:
Mummelmann said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Glad that isn't a rule in the United States. |
May I ask why? How does it benefit you as a consumer that the biggest companies are left alone to rampage through massive, cynical advertising due to a lack of rules of conduct and competition premises? Competiton is a good thing for consumers and the market in general.
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Because as a consumer it gives you choices.
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Re-read the bolded and then read your response again. Huge conglomerates dominating a market yields a very specific and observable lack of choice for the consumer, this is more or less markets and trade 101.
The provider(s) of goods and/or services decide(s) your choices, fewer acting competitors in any given market = less choice for the consumer. You're going to have to expand on your reasoning here because I really can't follow your logic here at all.
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I should have been more specific. I was referring to ms offering rebates to ps3 owners. Nothing wrong with it. No different than trading your cell phone in for a different make or model. Competitor trade ins aren't something new.It gives you more choices as a consumer.
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In a way, perhaps. My main issue was with the notion that large companies roaming uncontested in a potentially hostile market environment was somehow good for consumers though. I have nothing against free markets, too many restrictions also kill opportunity and variety, but I don't believe that free market should equal hostile market. And with no laws regulating conduct in market presentation, or more specifically; the negative presentation of the competition in your own advertisement, a free market does have a great chance of becoming hostile and thus also consumer hostile in the long term.
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Marketing is hostile whether outwardly or subtly. You can't take a product,put a price tag on it, put it on as shelf and expect people to buy it. Everybody's trying to convince you their products are the best. Many people question the tactics used. But by the same token many people believe the marketing hype, ie; the corporate sheep.
