What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.

Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.

Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.

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dmarcos 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?

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sigmarule 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I believe the claim is that the demand side did not change, the supply side did, as in sales != demand.

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dmarcos 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Just quoting the above

“An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy”

So people spent 60k on a cybertruck that they didn’t want? Is that the claim?

	▲	pas 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		the claim is that it moved sales forward in time, but it'll have a corresponding dip in sales later, whereas a good sales campaign increases total volume (virtually no dip, brings in new customers, etc)

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parineum 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.

People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them.

Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.

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sillyfluke 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

literally almost everything I have bought on sale is something I wasn't looking to buy at that moment in time.

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bdangubic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.

That is exactly what sales do. most sales are made sellings things to people they don’t want, until sales does what sales does

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dmarcos 11 hours ago | parent [-]

So people spent 60k on a cybertruck they don’t want? Do you believe that?

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bdangubic 10 hours ago | parent [-]

look around your house and see how much shit you got that you really want(ed). great salesman (and elon is the best in the history of the civilization) will sell you shit you never thought you wanted :)

	▲	dmarcos 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The motivation to buy something is always because you want it. That a product doesn’t meet your needs or expectations later is a different story. What’s your evidence to claim that people spending 60k in a cybertruck don’t want it? What’s your evidence to make a similar claim or the opposite for any other purchase? Without evidence it feels you are making baseless claims about peoples motivations.

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RobRivera 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[X] doubt