Is It Really A Deal? (A nice Andy Rooney anecdote)

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/13/60minutes/rooney/main600077.shtml

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(CBS) A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney. It was first broadcast on Feb. 15, 2004. I wish businesses would be more honest with us when they're trying to sell us something. They have too many devious little ways of making it sound as if something costs less than it does.

They even pretend something doesn't cost anything. They use the word “FREE” all the time.

In one ad, the thing you wouldn't mind having is free if you buy $450 dollars worth of something you don't want.

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Sometimes the price is “STARTING AT.” A Dodge Durango ad says, "starting at $26,565." Well, that isn't what we want to know, Dodge Durango Wheeler Dealer. Never mind what it starts at. What does it finish at? That's what we want to know.

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