When I was a kid, I saw a TV commercial advertising a place that was having a "liquidation sale" because it was going out of business. I had never heard that term before; I thought that it meant whatever merchandise was left unsold at the end of the going-out-of-business sale, they would take and melt down. (You know...liquidate!)
I figured it was some sort of marketing gimmick to coax people into coming to the sale and buying things - nobody wants to see so much stuff go to waste like that, after all. This all made perfect sense to me.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that, when a store held a "liquidation sale", all the unsold stuff would be melted down.— Marty
- When I saw signs stating "Lots for sale" I thought it meant that there was a lot for sale.— Robin
- i thought the for sale sign buy owner things meant that u could also buy the owner — brandi
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- I used to believe that if a item wasn't "on sale" then you weren't aloud to buy it.— Meagan
- I used to think that if you had a garage sale that meant you were selling the garage!— ~Curtis~