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'''Basic Trope''': Splitting up the cost of an expensive item into smaller amounts.
* '''Straight''': Ads for the $200 [[ACMEProducts ACME Super Washing Machine]] say that you can have it for just four easy payments of $50.
* '''Exaggerated''': "Just four easy payments of $50! Which equals eight easy payments of $25! Which equals a hundred easy payments of $2, and you certainly have $2, don't you?"
* '''Downplayed''': Next to the price, there's images of a few smaller common products people usually buy, suggesting that this item costs an amount you usually pay every day.
* '''Justified''': TruthInTelevision.
* '''Inverted''': When you buy a monthly [[ACMEProducts ACME Super Gym Membership]], the upfront price is a combined total of $50 times the amount of months in the rest of your life expectancy, rather than being able to renew on a monthly basis.
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* '''Parodied''': There are four easy payments, and one that's really complicated to make.
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* '''Averted''': The ad states the product's full price upfront.
* '''Enforced''': "People might not buy it if we say the price upfront. Let's say they're just paying a smaller amount a couple of times."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Four easy payments of $50? I'm just paying 200 dollars, then."
* '''Invoked''': The ad executives suggest that the product's full price be split up into smaller amounts.
* '''Exploited''': The advertisers hope that viewers will latch onto the "payment" price rather than the full one, and assume they're getting a good deal.
* '''Defied''': Truth in advertising laws require that the product's full price be stated upfront.
* '''Discussed''': "Do you think it's really as cheap as they say it is?" "No, didn't they say there were multiple payments?"
* '''Conversed''': "It's kinda like those ads that say you can buy something for five easy payments of $15 or something."
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You can get your own PaymentPlanPitch for less than a cup of coffee a day!
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* '''Straight''': Ads for the $200 [[ACMEProducts ACME Super Washing Machine]] say that you can have it for just four easy payments of $50.
* '''Exaggerated''': "Just four easy payments of $50! Which equals eight easy payments of $25! Which equals a hundred easy payments of $2, and you certainly have $2, don't you?"
* '''Downplayed''': Next to the price, there's images of a few smaller common products people usually buy, suggesting that this item costs an amount you usually pay every day.
* '''Justified''': TruthInTelevision.
* '''Inverted''': When you buy a monthly [[ACMEProducts ACME Super Gym Membership]], the upfront price is a combined total of $50 times the amount of months in the rest of your life expectancy, rather than being able to renew on a monthly basis.
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* '''Parodied''': There are four easy payments, and one that's really complicated to make.
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* '''Averted''': The ad states the product's full price upfront.
* '''Enforced''': "People might not buy it if we say the price upfront. Let's say they're just paying a smaller amount a couple of times."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Four easy payments of $50? I'm just paying 200 dollars, then."
* '''Invoked''': The ad executives suggest that the product's full price be split up into smaller amounts.
* '''Exploited''': The advertisers hope that viewers will latch onto the "payment" price rather than the full one, and assume they're getting a good deal.
* '''Defied''': Truth in advertising laws require that the product's full price be stated upfront.
* '''Discussed''': "Do you think it's really as cheap as they say it is?" "No, didn't they say there were multiple payments?"
* '''Conversed''': "It's kinda like those ads that say you can buy something for five easy payments of $15 or something."
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You can get your own PaymentPlanPitch for less than a cup of coffee a day!
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