Has marketing taken over?

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I saw this today and I almost laughed out loud. This is a $3,900 ground blind. Here is an excerpt from the official product description:

" The TreeBlind is the creature of professional Hollywood set designers and will fool even the keenest eye, human or wildlife. "

If people are buying this, then it may be time for me to get into the business of selling stuff to hunters who have more dollars than sense (see what I did there?)

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Wow, I could see that being kind of dangerous for the hunter inside. Just think if a deer where standing on the back side when another hunter comes walking by....
 
The marketers took over 20+ years ago. Why do you think we have so many camo patterns that all do the same thing equally well, a bunch of useless proprietary short magnums, and uber unnecessary scope reticles brought out incessantly by scope manufacturers?
 
Wow, I could see that being kind of dangerous for the hunter inside. Just think if a deer where standing on the back side when another hunter comes walking by....
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So what you are saying is that this monster stump is so good that it will fool hunters as well? Your concern could be expressed about any ground blind that looks really good, blending into the landscape. Makes me want to never use natural foliage again, just in case there is a deer somewhere behind me...LOL.

I think it is funny to blame the marketers. The blame is with the buyers.
 
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I've often wondered whether the designer of most of these new but sort of worthless things thought they were a good idea, or just thought that we would think so and buy it.
 
gspn said:
I saw this today and I almost laughed out loud. This is a $3,900 ground blind. Here is an excerpt from the official product description:

" The TreeBlind is the creature of professional Hollywood set designers and will fool even the keenest eye, human or wildlife. "

If people are buying this, then it may be time for me to get into the business of selling stuff to hunters who have more dollars than sense (see what I did there?)
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Just got the Hammacher Schlemmer Christmas catalog in the mail the other day. It's full of products like the above for folks with money they don't know what to do with. Kinda what "capitalism" is all about.
 
buck460XVR said:
Kinda what "capitalism" is all about.
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Thus my original comment about joining them in selling such outrageously expensive (and in my view ridiculous) items.

If a fool and his money are to be parted...I'd like to be the one receiving the money.
 
What I find interesting is folks without a lot of money thinking they know better how to spend it than those with it. Most folks with money did not get to be that way by being "fools". They got that way by being more intelligent, more savvy, more educated and by working harder than the average Joe.

I'm sure it costs a lot of money to make. The last ground blind I sat in made out of a large commercial garbage can. Personally, I'm not ready to shell out $4000 for a ground blind but if I was littering my property with them, I'd rather they look like tree stumps than garbage cans.
 
Of course this is the most expensive for what you get, but I will say that we have a hand made blind that tends to attract a lot of wasps. Something about a wooden blind in the woods just tends to get more critters than a plastic or other non-porous material.

Of course this is one of those, if "I won the lottery" type blinds..
 
CraigC said:
Oh, I don't know.
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This is priceless. Can you share the metrics you used to arrive at your conclusion regarding my wealth status? Do you have a proprietary formula or do you just make it up as you go?


I won't continue this conversation with you because in addition to being pretty far from the original light hearted nature of the post, it would be pointless. Plus i now feel the need to call my wife and tell her to cut up our Amex Black Card...because someone on the internet told me we are broke! :eek::neener:
 
As long as there are folks believing that "you get what you pay for" someone will will be out there making stuff more expensive just to give folks that "something extra."
 
I don't hunt. But...... it looks like it provides a very limited field of view to me. I guess you can't fall out of it and hurt yourself.
 
It's a proven fact,,

People who sell supplies for a thing,,,
Make more money than the people doing the thing.

In all the gold rushes,,,
The people selling the pan made out better than the panners.

And yes, the marketers took over the world right after W-II.

Aarond

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This is priceless. Can you share the metrics you used to arrive at your conclusion regarding my wealth status? Do you have a proprietary formula or do you just make it up as you go?
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You can ascertain a lot about a person just listening to them talk about money and how much things cost. Good and bad. I just find it very interesting the attitudes people have towards things they cannot (or would not) "afford". Proletentiousness is something I don't care for but notice quite often.

Carry on.....
 
I think some hunters have more money than common sense. My blind?! Nature created it...36-inch-high weeds around the field where I hunt. As an enhancer, there's a broken-down old wagon that I shoot over. I set 2 concrete blocks behind it as a seat, and three cement blocks stacked side-by-side, across the wagon bed. I rest the bipod for my rifle on the blocks. It's cheap and effective.

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CraigC:
I use the concept of "point-of-rationality: getting the most for the least". I could care less what others think of that. My money. My hunting. My decision. My financial accountability to my wife. Others can do as they choose. My post regards me, and my view.

Geno
 
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