Comments on: Email me the expanded edition of PI! http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/ My Irrational Life Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ron http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3769 Ron Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:38 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3769 I found your comment on marketplace on NPR interesting "So, for example, imagine there was a central mechanism in which you could submit all your bills to, like a Web site, and you say here is what I owe, and here is the interest rate, and so on." I am a web programer and think it would be a great program, that I can write, to have online for visitors to use. I am curious what other rules are there if any regarding paying off which credit card faster. If you have time and interested please contact me 773 793 9967 thanks Ron Sattar I found your comment on marketplace on NPR interesting

“So, for example, imagine there was a central mechanism in which you could submit all your bills to, like a Web site, and you say here is what I owe, and here is the interest rate, and so on.”

I am a web programer and think it would be a great program, that I can write, to have online for visitors to use. I am curious what other rules are there if any regarding paying off which credit card faster.

If you have time and interested please contact me
773 793 9967

thanks

Ron Sattar

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3768 Cheng Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:13:49 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3768 Dear Professor Areily, I just brought a group of <a href="http://www.piscatawayschools.org/phs/site/default.asp" rel="nofollow">Piscataway High School</a> students to wonderful <a href="http://www.balloonfestival.com/" rel="nofollow">NJ Hot Air Balloon Festival</a> and surprised to find out so many people reading your wonderful book. The event even full of "FREE drinks" just any drink you can find from Quick Check or any supermarket. We NEVER taste so many brand of drinks, juices, soda ...etc. FREE! FREE! FREE! And, as you can tell the whole place was so crowd and many more crowd coming in, the auto line queue up all the way to miles away on Rt 22!!! when we heading home around 5pm ... Why? I guess that's the power of "cell phone", everyone got FREE drink and food calling their friends to come! Everyone told me that they will be coming for sure NEXT year, and EVERY year!!! Because for $25 admission, you got well over $200 worth of FREE items, almost every stand got free stuff... I am wondering if you can work with all these vendors to include FREE coupons of drinks at end of your wonderful book, or just like this one as email, your wonderful book would be selling as crazy as this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uss_Jb7_BXw" rel="nofollow">Hot Air Balloons</a> ... Dear Professor Areily,

I just brought a group of Piscataway High School students to wonderful NJ Hot Air Balloon Festival and surprised to find out so many people reading your wonderful book.

The event even full of “FREE drinks” just any drink you can find from Quick Check or any supermarket. We NEVER taste so many brand of drinks, juices, soda …etc.

FREE! FREE! FREE! And, as you can tell the whole place was so crowd and many more crowd coming in, the auto line queue up all the way to miles away on Rt 22!!! when we heading home around 5pm … Why? I guess that’s the power of “cell phone”, everyone got FREE drink and food calling their friends to come!

Everyone told me that they will be coming for sure NEXT year, and EVERY year!!! Because for $25 admission, you got well over $200 worth of FREE items, almost every stand got free stuff…

I am wondering if you can work with all these vendors to include FREE coupons of drinks at end of your wonderful book, or just like this one as email, your wonderful book would be selling as crazy as this Hot Air Balloons …

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3767 Cheng Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:56:50 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3767 Dear Professor Areily, Fan was eagerly to practice your "Power of FREE", so he did an experiment to invite me and my family to the best Chinese restaurant at Highland Park NJ for lunch to thank me for introducing your wonderful book to him. Wow! 10 dishes with final bill $150!!! So, I was so excited with this "FREE lunch", and took him to Open House at <a href="http://raspberryct.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Edison Hollow South</a>. We went thru both 1412 Raspberry Ct Edison NJ 08817 1br 1ba 1fl condo and 1919 Raspberry Ct Edison NJ 08817 and gave him a complete introduction and answer all the questions. I told him each unit can put 4 beds, 2 in bedroom, and 2 in living room with an IKEA furniture to participate, and each student charges $500 would make $2,000 rent a month, and, of couse, very competitive with Rutgers University dorm where he paid $900+ a month with NO kitchen, with another student. Therefore, if he can get them at under $200,000, it would be an A+ investment because the P/R (Price and Rent) ratio would be under 100, or 10% gain, as opposed to bank CD of about 2% and AT&T (T) stock of 7% dividend rate. He was so excited and said I am even much better than NYU and Columbia University Real Estate professor. I think, of course, because I am not only going on Real Estate Theory, but I also running huge "real estate lab" that only Rutgers University has. As you said in your wonderful book, "FREE" has magic power. Cheng Dear Professor Areily,

Fan was eagerly to practice your “Power of FREE”, so he did an experiment to invite me and my family to the best Chinese restaurant at Highland Park NJ for lunch to thank me for introducing your wonderful book to him.

Wow! 10 dishes with final bill $150!!!

So, I was so excited with this “FREE lunch”, and took him to Open House at Edison Hollow South. We went thru both 1412 Raspberry Ct Edison NJ 08817 1br 1ba 1fl condo and 1919 Raspberry Ct Edison NJ 08817 and gave him a complete introduction and answer all the questions.

I told him each unit can put 4 beds, 2 in bedroom, and 2 in living room with an IKEA furniture to participate, and each student charges $500 would make $2,000 rent a month, and, of couse, very competitive with Rutgers University dorm where he paid $900+ a month with NO kitchen, with another student.

Therefore, if he can get them at under $200,000, it would be an A+ investment because the P/R (Price and Rent) ratio would be under 100, or 10% gain, as opposed to bank CD of about 2% and AT&T (T) stock of 7% dividend rate.

He was so excited and said I am even much better than NYU and Columbia University Real Estate professor. I think, of course, because I am not only going on Real Estate Theory, but I also running huge “real estate lab” that only Rutgers University has.

As you said in your wonderful book, “FREE” has magic power.

Cheng

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3766 Cheng Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:33:25 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3766 Dear Professor Airely, Fan was very excited to call me that he finished first 1 and 2 chapter of your wonderful book. He said he now understand how he was lured to get into study in Rutgers University from China. I told him soon he should triple major with Psychology in addition to Accounting and Economics. He is straight A student, and, as you may not know only 12 straight students graduated from Rutgers University in 2009, and only 6 students graduated with triple major. Cheng Dear Professor Airely,

Fan was very excited to call me that he finished first 1 and 2 chapter of your wonderful book.

He said he now understand how he was lured to get into study in Rutgers University from China.

I told him soon he should triple major with Psychology in addition to Accounting and Economics.

He is straight A student, and, as you may not know only 12 straight students graduated from Rutgers University in 2009, and only 6 students graduated with triple major.

Cheng

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3765 Cheng Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:00:19 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3765 Dear Professor Ariely, Fan told me yesterday that he just bought your wonderful book after I introduced to him. He is straight A student at Rutgers University double majoring Economics and Accounting, and I am advising him to add one more which is Psychology to become Triple major. I told him that this year there were 6 undergraduates at Rutgers University graduated with Triple major, and that is going to be very useful to him later. Cheng Dear Professor Ariely,

Fan told me yesterday that he just bought your wonderful book after I introduced to him. He is straight A student at Rutgers University double majoring Economics and Accounting, and I am advising him to add one more which is Psychology to become Triple major. I told him that this year there were 6 undergraduates at Rutgers University graduated with Triple major, and that is going to be very useful to him later.

Cheng

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3764 Cheng Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:54:43 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3764 Dear Professor Ariely, My son has referred your great book to his high school classmate, son of Manila Mayor of Philippine, and he just went bought your book and sit up and read it thru in less than a day!!! Amazing! Huh? He won #1 in NJ FBLA (Future Business Leader of America) competition last year, and went to compete nationwide FBLA at Atlanta GA and got #1 back too. He got admitted to NYU and very interested in Psychology, but he has been so good at Business and obtain invitation letters from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase. So, I introduce Behavior Economics and your wonderful book to him and told him that may be he should follow you at Duke Univ after graduating from NYU for graduate work. Cheng Dear Professor Ariely,

My son has referred your great book to his high school classmate, son of Manila Mayor of Philippine, and he just went bought your book and sit up and read it thru in less than a day!!!

Amazing! Huh? He won #1 in NJ FBLA (Future Business Leader of America) competition last year, and went to compete nationwide FBLA at Atlanta GA and got #1 back too.

He got admitted to NYU and very interested in Psychology, but he has been so good at Business and obtain invitation letters from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.

So, I introduce Behavior Economics and your wonderful book to him and told him that may be he should follow you at Duke Univ after graduating from NYU for graduate work.

Cheng

]]> By: Chandan http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3763 Chandan Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:05:19 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3763 Ever since I found out about the expanded edition of PI, I was wondering about what sense does it make to buy another book. I was waiting for a chance to see this book in a bookstore where I could have a glance at the material and probably convince my boss to buy it for me (from my book budget). This came to be as a surprise and a happy one. Dan, I am an online marketer and ever since I have read your book I have got so much interested in Behavioral Economics that I have gone quite deep into it and even implementing the experiments on my website at various places like shopping carts, menu items etc. Its really fun to experiment the theories that you learn. Thanks again Dan, it is very nice of you. Ever since I found out about the expanded edition of PI, I was wondering about what sense does it make to buy another book. I was waiting for a chance to see this book in a bookstore where I could have a glance at the material and probably convince my boss to buy it for me (from my book budget).

This came to be as a surprise and a happy one. Dan, I am an online marketer and ever since I have read your book I have got so much interested in Behavioral Economics that I have gone quite deep into it and even implementing the experiments on my website at various places like shopping carts, menu items etc. Its really fun to experiment the theories that you learn.

Thanks again Dan, it is very nice of you.

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3762 Cheng Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:09:04 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3762 Dear Professor Areily, here is a wiki blog http://edisonandblueberryvillage.blogspot.com/ that designed based on your Behavior Economics, and can you believe, the whole community SOLD OUT! given the fact US real estate seemed to be bad in past years... Dear Professor Areily, here is a wiki blog http://edisonandblueberryvillage.blogspot.com/ that designed based on your Behavior Economics, and can you believe, the whole community SOLD OUT! given the fact US real estate seemed to be bad in past years…

]]> By: Cheng http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3761 Cheng Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:55:06 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3761 Dear Professor Areily, I just read this chapter of Power of Price, and it seems a better title may be "The power of belief". It is a more religious than market norm. For example, I just rented out a 1br condo for $1,500 where as my neighbor listed hers from $1,200, down to $1,175, down to $1,100, now $1,050 and still not rented. On the other hand, the power of price may be still valid as you can see, people prefer to rent higher price condo rather than lower price ones. Dear Professor Areily, I just read this chapter of Power of Price, and it seems a better title may be “The power of belief”. It is a more religious than market norm.

For example, I just rented out a 1br condo for $1,500 where as my neighbor listed hers from $1,200, down to $1,175, down to $1,100, now $1,050 and still not rented.

On the other hand, the power of price may be still valid as you can see, people prefer to rent higher price condo rather than lower price ones.

]]> By: Abhinav http://danariely.com/2009/06/30/email-me-the-expanded-edition-of-pi/#comment-3760 Abhinav Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:03:59 +0000 http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=643#comment-3760 Thanks much! This is very helpful and appreciated. Rgds, Abhinav Thanks much! This is very helpful and appreciated.

Rgds, Abhinav

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