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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2334004, member: 16729&quot;]All true.&nbsp; But it misses the point.&nbsp; They are simply taking advantage of the phenomenon of impulse buying, nothing more.&nbsp; Our &quot;more easy&quot; access to information via the internet certainly helps <b>some</b> of us to avoid falling for the TV hucksters&#039; sales pitch, but what HSN knows is that there are still plenty of people who will not even bother to search average prices before hitting the &quot;OK&quot; button on their remote to purchase.&nbsp; &nbsp; People who buy these overpriced coins are thinking, &quot;That would be a good thing to get...you know, for the grandkids.&quot; or whatever.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then it just sits around the house until they, or the person they give the coins to, shows up at CoinZip&#039;s store with the receipts and coins in their original packages and exchanges it for a small fraction of what they paid.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, I guess it&#039;s their money...</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing this also shows us is that the point of Television, especially in the USA, is to advertise, to sell.&nbsp;&nbsp; Always has been.&nbsp; Ever wonder why American TV advertising is always <i>interruptive</i> in nature, and other countries&#039; TV advertising is not?&nbsp; I watch the nightly news in the USA and see 20 minutes of pharmaceutical ads interspersed with a couple of minutes of brief news content.&nbsp; I can watch South Korean news (YTN) on YouTube for 50 solid minutes without an ad until the end when they show 10-15 minutes of advertising, all in one block.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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