I am a tasty wine. Many people pass me by every day and I can sometimes hear them tell the nice man ‘I am just browsing’. I have a pretty label and my alcohol levels seem to be just about right for that other crowd, I am a tasty wine. Today is the day, I am a tasty wine so why should I not be bought right off this shelf? I have a cool name and a pretty capsule and did I tell you? I am a tasty wine. Wait! I see you eying me you nice young lady with the ivy league smile. No! Don’t pass me by! That guy there does NOT have the tastiness I do! I AM TASTY. I go well with food and won’t break the bank, and at $29 I am a bargain!
Oh well.
Lights on! Today is the day I just know it! Wait, what’s that nice man changing my price for? What happened? Am I to be relegated to the bargain bin! I hope not. WOW, did I see right? My price has more than doubled in like what, 12 hours? This must be a mistake, I mean, sure, I am a tasty wine but what gives now? Am I that much tastier today than yesterday? Did someone realize my price was a mistake? I may never know, what I do know for sure is: I will never sell now, not at $90. Dear me, oh, the pain, the pain.
What’s that commotion over at the locked door? A riot? Am I in danger? Don’t unlock it! Save us all man! Wait, now why is that crowd rushing to me? A fight is breaking out and that nice ivy league lady was just not quick enough. Snatched I tell you, I have been! Grappled and embraced and fawned over, I mean, sure, I am a tasty wine. Did he use CASH? Did he just ask if I had any brothers or sisters hanging about? Surely if I had they would tasty too, no? Well it’s about time. Tasty wine finds a home!
Released from that bag and googled over! No way! What gives? Light petting? No way! Wait, what! Not the cellar, not that cold dark never to be drank place I have only heard of but never really believed had existed since doesn’t the world drink tasty wines? Oh the humanity! Damn you Robert Parker!!
Hee hee hee!!!
That poor bottle.
bravo
Well done. I find it amusing how people are suddenly interested in a wine because someone gave it a high score.
I have a couple friends in the business that work for, or are associated with a large national retailer. They have told me some interesting stories about what it sometimes takes to move a wine. If a 12-15 dollar bottle of wine is not selling, sometimes they will raise the price to $20-25 and then people start to snatch them up. I have also heard stories about a producer bottling the exact same wine under two different names/labels and one is $10 more per bottle than the other.
Marketing. It’s always about the marketing and advertising. If marketing and advertising didn’t work, companies wouldn’t spend millions of dollars for a 30 second spot during the Super Bowl. Perception is more important than reality - sell the sizzle, not the steak.
Amusing? Only to the extent that human nature is amusing. People value information/feedback on the items they invest in.
Funny OP, well played.
…and if folks value information on their investments shouldn’t they pay the information bearer rather than increase payment on the “investment”. Paying $90 instead of $25 seems like bubblenomics to me…not that RP isn’t wealthy enough already.
I never trusted ivory league people.
Yeah, but I like watching Cubs games when an outfielder makes a great catch and runs into the ivory on the wall.
damn, you spell check/auto-correct or whatever is is you are! Strange word fixes after my windows 10 crash. Thanks!