Advertising.....

The popular theory among advertisers is that if they didn't advertise products would cost more. Because the turnover in goods would be slower and they would have money tied up in inventory.

Advertisers don't think of their ads as something that convinces you to buy. They consider it educating the public on the merits of their product.

They do manage to get consumer info out there. For example my wife has been bugging me to get her a new SUV but she hates it that all of them are so slow. But an ad just last night said that Ford has a new SUV with a 496 hp engine.

So I'm not rushing out to buy one but I am going to look into them.

But I feel just like you. I trust the word of other users. But without adverting I would not know what questions to ask of them. I would not know a product that met my need existed.

It's complicated.