Should I buy from certain companies based on criteria that has nothing to do with the services and products they provide? Is trying to guilt me into making a purchase a good business strategy?
Question of the Day, June 19
Should I buy from certain companies based on criteria that has nothing to do with the services and products they provide? Is trying to guilt me into making a purchase a good business strategy?
Here’s my criteria for purchases:
1) Never buy anything on credit.
2) Buy only what you need.
3) Buy local first.
4) Support like minded individuals/companies if you cannot find them locally.
5) Boycott all companies who have policies that negatively affect your life or go against your beliefs.
Ditto.
Don’t buy shit you don’t need with money you don’t have.
Lastly – there is no such thing as buying ‘too much’ ammunition.
Agree 100% with HSF.
I’ve been voting with my wallet ever since I’ve had money to vote with.
Support your own side.
That above all else.
I don’t have a side in commerce, business, or any other would-be compartments. I don’t support – I trade. And I do that to me & mine’s best advantage. Same as whoever I happen to be trading with, if they know what they are doing.
The world is local, & all subcompartmentalizing of it is arbitrary, & rationalizing.
Always liked this one by Rand:
The symbol of all relationships among [rational] men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live by values, not by loot, are traders, both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values, so he does not give the values of his spirit—his love, his friendship, his esteem—except in payment and in trade for human virtues, in payment for his own selfish pleasure, which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the traders and held them in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread—a man of justice.
I thought the types of monikers listed in the post only related to getting government contracts with special set asides for special categories. It never crossed my mind to consider the sex or race of a small business owner before doing business with them (or not doing business with them.).
What does the woman look like?
and does she give any value added services?
after hours service?
They do it all the time. At a networking event this morning, 2 people mentioned how they were veteran owned, and one mentioned how she likes to work specifically with women.
I don’t consider any of those -owned business designations to be worth choosing over the same or better product from someone else.
In fact, I consider all of them to be suspect, and the louder they talk about it, the more suspect they are.
Nothing against those three categories, but if your marketing strategy is based on personal characteristics of your owner, and not on the price and quality of your actual product, I’m doubting the price and quality of your product.
Affinities do make the world go ‘round – & more’s the pity. Metrics that don’t have anything to do, have everything to do. You choose your family, or can. & if you can see that, or the possibility of that, you can also see the expanded concept of nepostism that makes the human world dreidel in place.
It’s a fucking racket. Long ago I did some work for a software consulting company. This nigger owned the business. All the rest of the programmers / engineers were white.
“Is trying to guilt me into making a purchase a good business strategy?” Not with me. Guilt strategy sends me for the door unless it’s really in my best interest to use that company or I have no other choice and need the product/service.
My rule is live and let live. However, I try not to make the soapbox taller for someone that wants to take my freedoms. So, I cut up and sent my Starbucks card to Schulz’s home address. Have not darkened their door or bought their products since. I hate Bezos, but we use Amazon because at times we have little choice.
Normally I don’t care who the owner/manage is unless they are using company funds/soapbox to take away my freedoms.
Current boycotts: Starbucks, Kellogg, Frito Lay, GM Chrysler, NYT, CNN, CBS, ABC especially ESPN, ABC and of course the Washington Post.
Grumpy
Affirmative action is a circle jerk. The only people that really care are the jerkers.
I think you should buy from whomever you want to buy from no matter what I say about it. There.
The same criteria should be applied to businesses that give “special” discounts to certain “entitled” folks. YOU are paying for those – NOT the business. Whether it be senior, child, veteran, expecting mom, or whatever. The same goes for businesses that contribute “a portion of our sales/profits to charity, etc.” That simply means that YOU will now have less money to contribute to whatever charity YOU want to contribute to because of higher prices, and that charity might not be one YOU wish to support.
Absolutely!!!