Anyone headed to Minneapolis anytime soon? If so, I know how to get you a free one way ticket that includes accomodations at a 4 Star Hotel.
Stuff like this actually makes me very, very mad. Sure, rich guys can do what they want with their money, and who am I to police their activity. Certainly, I'm in no position to tell them how they should or should not wile away their time or p*ss away their cash.
But some of these rich guys actually think that the stuff works, and that is why they buy it. Take my father in law, for example. On a much smaller scale, he was taken for a cable ride by teh guys at Tweeter who sold him his plasma. After spendign 10 grand on the TV, they insisted that he needed $1.25 a foot cabling for his speakers and that he needed special cabling for his television hook-up. They also insisted that he buy a powe conditioner. They told him that without these "necessary" cables, they couldn't gaurantee that his TV would operate properly. After all was said and done, he spent nearly another $1000 bucks on wires and conditioners. All money wasted - but he did it because he didnt' know any better, and he thought that this was just part of the deal.
Now, if you think of it, there is simply no way that a manufacturer would require that you buy such expensive cables, lest their TV look like crap. People would be returning their plasmas at unprecedented rates. But, for the unwitting or the unwise, they take the advise given to them (told to them by a guy who probably also doesn't know, but was told by the people in marketing that it must be done), and they buy this overpriced non-sense.
This is where I agree that the FCC needs to step in. Audio jewelry is commonly purchased not because it makes the purchaser appear rich, but because the purchaser thinks that more money gets him a better sound/picture - which is untrue, and is a fraud on the consumer.
It just needs to stop.
But maybe it should start with a couple of free one-way tickets to Minneapolis to enjoy the sites.
