It’s like when I was growing up, I always found it hilarious that the seller on TV touted a “low low price of ONLY xyz”, and they marveled at their own offer! As a kid, I realized that this is silly… it us the buyer who determines if the price is affordable or not. Most advertising in the last few decades just spouts nonsense in an effort to get you to buy something.
You’d be amazed how many people still watch this shit in 2023 and even buy it, when
1) you can quite easily* find what cheap product is this a rebrand of
*admittedly not so easily since Google became extremely enshittified in the last fiveish years
2) drop that product into any old ebay or a price comparison engine and marvel at the markups they rack
3) find reviews of the same and see how those products come apart when you look at them funny, or are made of plastics known to cause cancer wide outside California, or some shit
But then again, it’s my bubble, outside of it it’s far from “obvious”
Not that the commercials were this deep, but the ability to afford something by the buyer doesn't change the relative pricing compared to the market. If I throw a 3 bedroom house on the market in a HCOL area for $200k when every similar home is going for $500k, it's a perfectly truthful statement to say it's being sold for a "low low price of only $200k". The fact that is out of the price range of a part time fast food worker is irrelevant. Though it's probably worth using "low low price of only" as a marker to investigate why something is so much cheaper than it's market price.
