Monday, May 5, 2008

My very random post about balloons

This morning while I was sitting at a stop light, I watched a car salesman as he was tying balloons onto the cars on his lot. I've noticed that there always seem to balloons on the cars at this dealership and the one across the street from it. Sometimes they're red, white, and blue; sometimes they're black and orange; sometimes they're red and green; sometimes they're just random multi-colors. But probably about 75% of the time or more there are balloons on the cars.


That got me thinking, do balloons on really help sell the cars? I mean, who just drives along thinking, "I really could use a new car, but $16,00 is an awful lot of money to spend. I don't know if I can afford it. Hmmm...maybe next year. Oh, look! There's a giant red balloon on that car over there, I just have to have it now!" I mean really, do the balloons matter? I guess they get you to notice the cars, I obviously pay enough attention to know there's balloons on the cars a lot of the time. But I always look at the cars at dealerships even though I have no intention of buying.

One more thing, do you get to keep them when you buy the car? I don't know, I bet if you ask, they'd let you. If my kids were with me, they would definitely want the balloons. If anyone has any insight or know of any studies that have been done on likelihood of buying/not buying a car with balloons, please let me know.
And that's my deep thought for the day!

1 comments:

Because of Love said...

Thanks, Jill! I enjoy reading your blog too!