A very clever business move

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  1. Sup

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    Is to get your customers begging for something that they don't want and convincing them that you are giving them something extra when they get it
     
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    You have a very active imagination.

    But... why not use it in a positive way.
     
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    I am not imagining anything. It is a known business strategy
     
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    I think you have a very low opinion of us reds fans tbh,
     
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    Hmm.

    Load of Barnsley fans complaining that they don't want any more loans. Club signs nobody and then says sorry there is no time to sign anyone. well we could sign x but it would be a loan and we know you don't want any loans so we won't bother. Barnsley fans reply saying 'oh no, pleaseeeeee sign us a loaned its better than nothing. Please please please'. Club announced loaned signing to rapturous applause.

    Shrewd business. And that is not a complaint or a dig at the club, it is what clever businesses have been doing in different forms for a long long time.
     
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    My understanding is they tried for a permanent move the player stalled ,so a loan deal was done whilst terms sorted in January.
    No big conspiracy there imo
     
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    I never mentioned a conspiracy. I said that convincing the fans that they wanted it before it happened was a very good business move
     
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    But they tried to buy him.
    or is that part of the plan as you see it. I didn't know that I didn't want a loan but I did or summat.
     
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    Thank god we've got you to spell it out to us. Without you we'd be blundering around thinking the club has done well in recruiting a forward. Fortunately, we now have another opportunity to have a moan.
     
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    Pay attention. The club tried to buy him and failed, instead only being able to get a loan. That on itself would potentially cause fans to be upset however convincing them that they want the loan before announcing it is a good business move.

    To put it another way going from signing to loan is a downgrade. Going from nothing to loan is an upgrade. The club (PC) did a very good job of unofficially getting the message out that a permanent deal wasnt happening and putting fans into the frame of mind of nothing happening whilst keeping it unofficial, the wording also left it open for fans to beg for the loan signing which previously would have been a downgrade but is now an upgrade.

    No conspiracy, no plan, simply good business sense in convincing customers that something they previously didn't want was now something they had asked for. Tesco do it all the time
     
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    You can moan if you like. I wasn't but you can
     
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    Not gonna tesco ner moor
     
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    Very true. Trying his best to position this to fit a specific argument and by the same token imply we are all thick.
     
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    Yep and apparently according to him if you go into Tescos you come out with a loan player you didn't want
     
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    Ever heard of asteism?
     
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    No but I bet you often go in wanting one thing and come out buying something else because it is on two for one.

    U bet you've also bought a chocolate bar that is smaller than it used to be because it is healthier for you to eat less chocolate.

    Got a phone on orange/EE? You used to get two for one cinema tickets. You now get a film rental at home for a quid. It's not what the customers wanted but orange told them it was.

    TV deals for football. It doesn't really benefit most people having the matches on BT sport, virgin and sky but whenever they announce the deals they tell you its a good deal for consumers as it gives them choice. In reality it means that to watch it all you need to pay two or three times.

    It is good business sense to do things like that. Most successful professional businesses do it and believe it or not it was actually a complement to bfc for how they (and specifically Patrick cryne) did it. As for calling anyone thick, well that is not what I was doing at all. If it is calling Barnsley fans thick then all supermarket shoppers all orange customers, all sports TV subscribers and millions if not billions of others are thick. I prefer to think of it as being human.
     
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    Occam's razor

    Smith wants to go north but not happy with wages we offer
    Swindon happy with our offer
    Loan deal best fit in time available
     
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    Polite irony ??
     
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