Forget the Dow Industrial Average, forget the pundits, forget the candidates. If you need proof of the utter inevitability of finincial collapse, look no further than this:
This is a bad infomercial. But not spectacularly bad, by infomercial standards. However, it does say something terrifying about our economy. Watch the video until you get to the part where they tell you how much it costs. Notice anything? No, not the ridiculous price, although the "Get A Grip Suction Handle" is absurdly expensive. What I'm talking about is the payment method.
2 easy payments of $9.99.
Back in my day, an infomercial product was 1 payment of $19.99. If anything ever cost more than $19.95, you can bet it would be divided up into X easy payments of $YY.YY, usually $19.95.
But now, now the economy is so busted, so hopeless, that the makers of the "Get A Grip Suction Handle" figure no-one can pay $19.95 all at once. They have to divide it up even more. This is a sign of the financial endtimes. Pretty soon we'll be back on the barter system, and then you'll be able to buy a 12-cd series of the greatest hair metal love ballads of the 1980s for just 4 easy payments of $chicken.
Incidentally, the Get a Grip official website ( www.buygetagrip.com where you can also watch a smaller, grainier version of their infomercial) looks like they paid their web designer in two easy payments of $9.99 too.
On an unrelated note, if anyone wants me to write for them, my services can be hired for the low low costs of 8 easy payments of $sandwich.
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Get a grip buy one get one free for two payments of $9.99 total of $19.98 you also get to pay two shipping charges of $7.99 total of $15.98 total for get a grip, wait I have to get my calcualtor, grand total $23.97 people please, get a grip on reality.
Tom Deluca
I really think you failed to get the point of that post. It's about the fact that they split the payments unnecessarily, and also that I like sandwiches.
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