okay if it's like not even a real price why are you coming at this lady so hard that was fives snoring and i know that small businesses have the counter argument whenever this is brought up of nobody's gonna buy that for that price they love to say that they have so so many customers if that's the case great you already have people buying from you so you don't even need to make video after video breaking down your prices for people that were never interested in buying from you in the first place it just makes people not like you i think that about covers it for the entitlement let's talk about the guilt tripping guilt tripping i think is less of an issue now because people caught on to it and got tired of it and eventually it stopped working but small business owners that guilt tripped had such a grip on tick tock back when small businesses started popping up there would be videos like packing a fake order until i get a real one or my dad is so proud of me and bought a bunch of supplies but i don't have the heart to tell them i haven't had any orders yet basically it would be a bunch of videos made to tug at your heartstrings and make you feel bad for a young artist and make you want to buy from them these videos weren't successful for very long for a number of reasons mainly because people don't like to be guilt-tripped and also the fact that just like you don't owe people affordability people don't owe you business the guilt trip model is unsustainable long term because people get tired of it if you're having trouble making sales try different marketing techniques look at your prices and see if they need adjusting share your work on other platforms etc try other things to improve your business rather than trying to convince people to give you a pity sale if the only way you make money is through pity that might be a sign that something on your end is wrong but also it is a bit ridiculous isn't it the guilt trip business model like only a small business can even attempt to use that can you imagine walmart doing that oh man it's already NUMBER_TOKEN p.m and we haven't sold a single lunchable today corporate sent us those lunchables to sell and we wanted to do good for corporate so we could get a bonus but now that won't happen since nobody wants to buy our lunchables i sure hope we sell at least one lunchable before they all go bad and we have to throw them away i'm gonna pretend to buy these lunchables until someone actually buys one it's just silly you know it's goofy i will say i think the whole conflict between tick tockers and small businesses is similar to any conflict on tick tock it's over dramaticized and not that serious yes there are some small business owners that are entitled they overcharge or they're straight up scams but if you aren't buying from them it really doesn't matter people in tiktok are usually meaner than they would be in real life like i don't know what it is about tick tock that just removes the chill from everyone but there will always be a fight somewhere about some stupid thing for no reason when the conflict wouldn't exist if people that aren't buying the product and never even planned on it in the first place just
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