The Zero Price Effect

Getting something free gives us a good feeling. It is said that paying nothing or zero is an emotional hot button and is a source of irrational excitement. Why do we find zero cost irresistible? Free when offered against another item which one has to pay free always trumps. We often end up buying what we do not want...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao