Re: Why advertise something that is not available.

Doug wrote:
On 5 Sep, 08:58, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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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?

In what way is visiting a large corporate consumer outlet's website
confronting evil Doug?

Because consumerism, and its accompanying waste of resources, is bad
for the planet and is based on a false concept of infinite economic
growth.

That may be true Doug, but it's got nothing to do with my question. Just to
refresh you memory, that was: "In what way is visiting a large corporate
consumer outlet's website confronting evil "

Instead of, like you, blindly
accepting it from a position of compliant complacence?

Some of us are happy with the consumer society Doug.

Tell be about it!

Why can't you accept it?

Not all of us feel the
need to be fighting everything and everyone all the time.

What? You mean you are complacent and compliant? I know that already.
Though you do seem to want to fight against cyclists, for just one
example.

No one that I know, either on these NGs or in real life wants to do anything
against cyclists Doug. That's just a result of your paranoia. Have you seen
a doctor?

Why do you do it?

I don't, not everything and everyone. You must surely be aware by now
that there are some things and some people I agree with?

So you're admitting that you fight many things most of the time?



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