$19 a Month

[Subdeacon Joe]

I've been seeing commercials for various charities on TV. 5 or 6 of them say, "For only $19 a month!"

 

What the heck is it with $19/month?  Is there some mystical quality to that amount?

[Doc Shapiro]

It's less than $20.  I strongly suspect that they ran a market survey and at $20, folks balked.  But they were willing at $19.  Kinda similar how coffee is $4.99 and not an even $5.  It's a psyop.

[Subdeacon Joe]

7 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

It's less than $20.  I strongly suspect that they ran a market survey and at $20, folks balked.  But they were willing at $19.  Kinda similar how coffee is $4.99 and not an even $5.  It's a psyop.

 

I suspected something like that.  It just seemed odd that every one of them uses the same amount.   Same marketing firm, I guess. 

[Doc Shapiro]

12 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

I suspected something like that.  It just seemed odd that every one of them uses the same amount.   Same marketing firm, I guess. 

 

May years ago, my grandfather owned a liquor store in Georgetown, in DC.  He had a buddy that owned a hardware store.  His friend dropped all his prices by 1 cent and his sales picked up substantially.  There's definitely something psychological about it.

[Trailrider #896]

Soitenly!

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I've been seeing commercials for various charities on TV. 5 or 6 of them say, "For only $19 a month!"

 

What the heck is it with $19/month?  Is there some mystical quality to that amount?

I was wondering the same thing. Seems like there’s new ones popping up lately. 🙄

[Rye Miles #13621]

Tunnels2Towers is the only one that asks for $11.00 a month. I read that 93% goes to the wounded and disabled. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

someday it'll be "Just $49 a month"

[Dr. Zook]

It may be something the way a human brain interprets numbers (price) and how you were taught rounding in math.

<=5 round Down/=>6 round Up. Now when my wife wants something (purse, shoes) if the price is $99.99 its only $99 to play mind games.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I've seen those commercials since I was a child. They've always been $19 a month. 

[Cypress Sun]

I've been seeing the $19 per month ads recently stating "now with 2X (or 3X) the impact. Impact of what?

[Widder, SASS #59054]

$19 a month equates to roughly 63 CENTS a day.   Some of those agencies will say that in their ads.

 

If you notice, the SAME dog (animal) ads have been showing for 3+ years.   Some of those animals have probably died by now.

 

I like the part, especially with the life insurance ads, about how AFFORDABLE the cost is set.   Well, if all of them

are affordable, why don't I have any money to invest in them?

 

..........Widder

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

2 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I've seen those commercials since I was a child. They've always been $19 a month. 

You must be awful young because I don’t remember ever seeing these ads till maybe 10 -15 years ago

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

13 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

You must be awful young because I don’t remember ever seeing these ads till maybe 10 -15 years ago

The ads I'm referring to are the "Feed the Children" ads. They were showing them back in the 70s. And it was pretty much the same thing as you see now. 

This might sound Bad, but I always thought that if people didn't "Feed the Children", the population over there might have dropped off naturally to where they didn't have so many starving children.

[Cypress Sun]

21 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

The ads I'm referring to are the "Feed the Children" ads. They were showing them back in the 70s. And it was pretty much the same thing as you see now. 

This might sound Bad, but I always thought that if people didn't "Feed the Children", the population over there might have dropped off naturally to where they didn't have so many starving children.

 

I remember those, with a non-starving Sally Struthers "pleading" for the children as a spokesperson.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Just now, Cypress Sun said:

I remember those, with a non-starving Sally Struthers "pleading" for the children as a spokesperson.

She was just the most recent, (at that time) celebrity to jump on that bandwagon. They'd been doing it years before she got involved. As an aside, it had been years since she'd been on anything at that time. I always wondered if that was her way of trying to regain the spotlight of fame. If so, it didn't seem to work. (The $200 sunglasses she wore kind of spoiled the image). 

[Stump Water]

13 hours ago, Doc Shapiro said:

It's a psyop.

 

Which we all fall for every day.

 

"How much is gas there?"

 

"$2.68"

 

Not really.

 

[Blackwater 53393]

1 hour ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

This might sound Bad, but I always thought that if people didn't "Feed the Children", the population over there might have dropped off naturally to where they didn't have so many starving children.

My first thought when these commercials appeared was the same as that of the late Sam Kennison…

 

MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

 

It NEVER made sense to me for people to try to live where they couldn’t grow food or earn a living!!  Just pack up the family and whatever you have and go somewhere else!!

 

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Yepper.  I've complained (bitched) about the pricing of Gasoline ever since I started buying the stuff.  What's with $3.499??  Or any other amount with that little hiccup "9" tacked on.   Legal form of BAIT & SWITCH??.  What about now that the Penny is Dodo??

[Rye Miles #13621]

$2.29 gas here

[Doc Shapiro]

2 hours ago, Stump Water said:

 

Which we all fall for every day.

 

"How much is gas there?"

 

"$2.68"

 

Not really.

 

 

Exactly.

[Widder, SASS #59054]

SASS membership is only @ $5 a month.   That's just a few pennies a day.

And some folks question its validity.    

 

..........Widder

 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

3 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

The ads I'm referring to are the "Feed the Children" ads. They were showing them back in the 70s. And it was pretty much the same thing as you see now. 

This might sound Bad, but I always thought that if people didn't "Feed the Children", the population over there might have dropped off naturally to where they didn't have so many starving children.

Those are completely different ads from the ones we’re talking about. I remember Feed the Children ads as well but were specifically talking about these $19.00 a month ads which are fairly recent. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 minute ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

SASS membership is only @ $5 a month.   That's just a few pennies a day.

And some folks question its validity.    

 

..........Widder

 

 

 

Well the SASS MEMBERSHIP doesn’t feed any needy kids or kids with cancer etc. It only feeds the few people that work at SASS. Just sayin’……

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

17 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Tunnels2Towers is the only one that asks for $11.00 a month. I read that 93% goes to the wounded and disabled. 

I give $25.00 per month to the Shriners Childrens Hospital. 100% go to the hospital.

[Rye Miles #13621]

3 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

I give $25.00 per month to the Shriners Childrens Hospital. 100% go to the hospital.

Less administrative costs and advertising.