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  • bakla
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2006
    • 902

    Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



    Put down the credit card, you unstoppable spending machine. Groundbreaking research
    shows that shopping leads to more shopping; not, as some predicted,
    happiness. Once you start buying, you build up what researchers call
    "shopping momentum," and then you can't stop.

    Shopping momentum occurs when an initial purchase provides
    a psychological impulse whose momentum drives the purchase of a second,
    unrelated product... Momentum occurs because the initial purchase moves
    one from a deliberative to an implemental mindset, thus driving
    subsequent purchases.
    So how do you get in the zone?
    Shopping has two distinct phases. First, you wisely deliberate a
    product's value. Once you decide to buy, you reach the second phase,
    where it becomes easier to make additional, more expensive purchases,
    without returning again to the deliberative phase.

    Planning can derail mindless spending. Keep your money in separate
    places to create a pause between decision and purchase. Like with
    grocery shopping, make a list before hitting the mall to avoid
    extraneous purchases. If you want to browse, ask salespeople to hold
    items and come back the next day to re-evaluate your selections with a
    thrifty friend.

    Buyer Beware: Shopping Can Lead to More ... Well ... Shopping [Stanford Graduate School of Business]

    The Shopping Momentum Effect (PDF) [Journal of Marketing Research]


  • bakla
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2006
    • 902

    #2
    Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping

    [quote user="bakla"]If you want to browse, ask salespeople to hold
    items and come back the next day to re-evaluate your selections with a
    thrifty friend.
    [/quote]

    If your friend is from Style Zeitgeist, locate Atelier and run in the opposite direction, if you want to make your rent that month.

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    • Casius
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2006
      • 4772

      #3
      Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



      Well, at least I do make a list of items I want to buy before hand and it generally works. Then I usually set an amount for sale times. But yeah, shopping is addictive.



      "because the young are whores. dealers come to carol to get the rock"

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      • Servo2000
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2006
        • 2183

        #4
        Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



        I've patented "The Servo2000 Method:"



        1. Have expensive interests.



        2. Be next-to-broke at all times.





        You will find yourself shopping very little as your tastes and budget will rarely meet, although it does cause one to find some pretty fantastic deals by being an obsessive thrifter. Favorite so far has to have been my Sub-$100 Final Home duffle coat.

        WTB: Rick Owens Padded MA-1 Bomber XS (LIMO / MOUNTAIN)

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        • ionn26
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2007
          • 488

          #5
          Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



          [quote user="bakla"][quote user="bakla"]If you want to browse, ask salespeople to hold items and come back the next day to re-evaluate your selections with a thrifty friend.[/quote]

          If your friend is from Style Zeitgeist, locate Atelier and run in the opposite direction, if you want to make your rent that month.
          [/quote].




          [86][74]

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          • ionn26
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2007
            • 488

            #6
            Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



            I agree with the article... WHOLEHEARTEDLY... it is very addictive...




            My aunty.. who 'was' pretty well off... she is now racking up 3 million dollar of debt last I have heard... just from.. buying clothes... she would buy the same Channel shoes or stuff... in different color... and every season always something crazy... now.. she has 3 million dollar worth of debt that she can not repay. God knows how the hell did she manage to be able to get that much credit beats me... she is asking my dad for help.. geez... and so.. her excuse goes... well... I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't gamble and the only vices that I have is shopping.. but I guess Shopping is also a VERY BAD HABIT...




            My dad knows that I am also a spend thrift.. and warn me about it.. [86]

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            • philip nod
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 5903

              #7
              Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping



              Groundbreaking research
              shows that shopping leads to more shopping; not, as some predicted,
              happiness. Once you start buying, you build up what researchers call
              "shopping momentum," and then you can't stop.





              shit. i thought all these clothes were making me happy. where will i turn to next?

              One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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              • Casius
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2006
                • 4772

                #8
                Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping

                [quote user="ionn26"]

                [quote user="bakla"][quote user="bakla"]If you want to browse, ask salespeople to hold items and come back the next day to re-evaluate your selections with a thrifty friend.[/quote]

                If your friend is from Style Zeitgeist, locate Atelier and run in the opposite direction, if you want to make your rent that month.
                [/quote].



                [86][74]



                [/quote]



                Dark told me to get on the train and get off at Broadway right by Atelier. SZ friends, helping each other spend money since 2006.

                "because the young are whores. dealers come to carol to get the rock"

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                • Servo2000
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 2183

                  #9
                  Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping

                  [quote user="ionn26"]

                  My aunty.. who 'was' pretty well off... she is now racking up 3 million dollar of debt last I have heard... just from.. buying clothes... she would buy the same Channel shoes or stuff... in different color... and every season always something crazy... now.. she has 3 million dollar worth of debt that she can not repay. God knows how the hell did she manage to be able to get that much credit beats me... she is asking my dad for help.. geez... and so.. her excuse goes... well... I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't gamble and the only vices that I have is shopping.. but I guess Shopping is also a VERY BAD HABIT...



                  [/quote]



                  Good lord.

                  WTB: Rick Owens Padded MA-1 Bomber XS (LIMO / MOUNTAIN)

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #10
                    Re: Survey Says Shopping Begets Shopping

                    That article is very zeitgeist (not stylezeitgeist, i mean, but that too). However, whatever happened to good old discipline? It seems to have gone and gotten replaced (around 1970's) with a bunch of experts: shopping experts, saving experts, dieting experts, exercising experts, child-raising experts, etc. etc.... which only LEADS TO MORE SPENDING.
                    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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