While on a minibus I overheard a young chick around 20 talking to her mum about going to one of those slimming places (the one which uses Janice as their spokesperson). She told her mum that it cost her ~HK$40K to get rid of 15 lbs, but she put it on a credit card instalment plan and will be paying ~HK$2,300 a month.
This reminds me of the Merchant of Venice.
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1 veronica // Sep 19, 2007 at 5:47 pm
但係係地鐵入面啲廣告話係幾百蚊~
有時係香港睇身邊周圍啲廣告, 十個有八個都係減肥廣告....真係好鬼悶~!!
2 tin_the_fatty // Sep 20, 2007 at 7:22 am
Considering the huge expenses in advertising, a few hundred bucks would buy ONE session at the slimming place.
Loosing weight is hard. If it is only a few hundred bucks per month, the customers won’t take it too seriously and nothing would work. Like gyms over-selling their membership, they are relying on their customers being lazy and not going to the gym.
So you are back! I look forward to reading the rest of your travel blog. And pictures. Are you going to upload pictures to Flickr/Zooomr/Google Picasa?
3 ah Leung // Sep 21, 2007 at 12:54 am
Besides slimming AD, money lending ADs are flooding too. Yes, lending money and spend on slimming programs, what a twin pair!!