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New level of ridiculousness

$8,995 for a power strip???
Stick 8 off the shelf receptacles in a marble??? box, and there it is.
It is getting more and more ridiculous. As if manufacturers are now driven by a desire to extract as much $$$ from aaudiophiles with sufficient income, and not by a desire to advance the quality of their products.
I wonder...
maril555
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sgr
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Well, they do look pretty cool!
sabai
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Viridian,
You hit the old proverbial nail on the old proverbial head. It's like all the talk about "blacker than black" backgrounds -- the subject of a recent thread of mine. It's all ad copy.
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viridian
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Sabai, no it's not. Haven't you been following the thread? It's not talk, it's not ad copy and it's certainly not making wild claims. It's "puffing".

Well, at least you can spell my user name correctly. Small consolation.

There's certainly a lot of "puffing" going on here and very little of it is on cigarettes.
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whart
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"Puffery," as I recall is loose sales lingo that no objective person could or should take seriously.
phaelon
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Hi Whart, that’s it exactly. Examples might be: a used car dealer claiming "best deals in the universe"; a diner claiming "apple pie better than mom’s” or a power strip manufacturer using the word “magical” anywhere.
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