3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend | Your Money and Your Mind

Online retailers resort to all kinds of strategies to separate you from your hard-earned money. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa names three tactics to look out for — and shares how you can keep yourself from falling for them.

Managing your money can feel scary and complicated, but it doesn't have to be. In this TED series, behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa explains why we spend too much and save too little — and shares easy steps to help us achieve a more secure financial future. (Made possible with the support of Wells Fargo)

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53 Comments on 3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend | Your Money and Your Mind

  1. You know what also annoys me is when you google, let’s say “how healthy is bacon” and the website will start talking about why people started eating bacon and all this useless “knowledge” before finally answering the question!!!

    • @Fiirow1 Yeah, Google has become the problem it was created to solve.
      It applies fuzzy logic to all searches when some of us grew up with Old Google that was more literal and that’s what we’re actually looking for.

      Classic example: looking for an online site that has words found on spelling tests, put in +”spelling” +”test” and then the words already known to be on that specific test, and it pops up everything but what it was told to look for
      Old Google could have found that easily, couldn’t find it at all on the shitshow now.
      I did eventually find it but it was a 20 minute battle with multiple search engines and keywords.

  2. Thank you for your valuable information. Everyone purchase online shopping but they don’t know how much is the actual price.someone is purchasing with credit and another one purchasing installment scheme but they didn’t think how much money they have l
    oss …

  3. One of th biggest things I did that kind of affects all 3 of these tips was to just stop caring about shopping (Yes, I know, that’s near to impossible for some people) but it was probably the single best thing I did. The only time I am on a store website is when I am specifically looking for something, and will definitely be purchasing it either in that shopping session, or planning it out for later budgeting. That way, I am immune to all manner of deals and tricks and so on that aren’t likely to get me the best actual deal but are manufactured to try to engage my monkey brain into searching for the dopamine reward as well.

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