Re: Why advertise something that is not available.

Doug wrote:
On 3 Sep, 20:12, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 3 Sep, 08:04, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 2 Sep, 19:14, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 2 Sep, 09:13, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 1 Sep, 19:35, JNugent <J...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug wrote:
Halfords are currently advertising on their website a range of
electric bikes but when you go to view details or to purchase
it says "Product cannot be purchased at this time". So what
is the point?
Whetting your appetite?
I wondered if it might be a some such ploy. Creating yearning
for the unavailable? More likely though to be a lack of
communication between the web design department and goods
ordering department. I have emailed them to find out.
Do keep us informed Doug. I do remain perplexed as why you, of
all people, would be visiting Halford's web site.
I don't see why. I visit lots of sites.
You claim to abhor the consumer culture and Halford is one of the
leaders supplying that culture.
I still don't see your point. How does looking at a website endorse
the consumer culture,
Because if people didn't look at the website they'd take it down. By
looking at you're merely confirming to the corporate big wigs that
they're strategy is working and so we get more of the same.
Their strategy is not working if you don't buy from them. Merely
looking at a website has no effect.
Yes it does, it confirms that that their website is worth visiting (even by
those opposed to consumerism) and so they will continue to use it to
advertise their goods.

particularly with regard to electric bicycles
which consume much less energy than a car?
What has the vehicle's fuel consumption got to do with your support
of the consumer culture?
Duh! The evils of consumerism. See above. Sometimes I wonder about
you.
Non sequiter

If consumerism is evil why are you visiting a consumerist company's website?

Because I choose to confront evil? Instead of, like you, blindly
accepting it from a position of compliant complacence?

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