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December 17, 2006

Do People Really Believe That Stuff?

D
uring the Cowboys-Falcons game last night, a commercial ran for "Lending Tree.Com." A woman, appropriately dressed for the holiday season, tells a friend why she decided to borrow money from Lending Tree. She says:

"I felt like they were looking out for me."

WOW!!! I've just never seen or heard of a any credit company in America looking out for anyone except their shareholder. Are American consumers so ridiculously stupid as to believe that these companies are looking out for them?

These companies will take the shirt off your back in a hearbeat in the dead of winter.

But they make up for that by taking it from you in arbitration -- where the rules of evidence are only loosely applied, the proceedings are not public, and no class actions are allowed.

On an unrelatd note. Marion Barber III -- the Cowboys' undersized running back -- is just about the hardest runner I've seen since Walter Payton. He's not in Payton's class for ability. But Barber puts to bed the argument that you need a "big back" for the tough yards. What you need is a tough back for the big yards. And he's it.

Posted by shertaugh at December 17, 2006 7:38 AM

Comments

Most commercial have the same exchange: the caring car dealer, the anxious to help bank and the almost family member broker.

Posted by: shmuel at December 17, 2006 10:47 AM