It's the Universal Law of Wrappers. The prettier the wrapper, the better we assume it is, and the more money we are willing to pay for it. Great confectioners know that presentation matters when it comes to selling pricey chocolate.

chocolate bar

 

See this chocolate bar with a plain old wrapper? Same old, same old, nothing special. How do I know? I just know. Well, I assume from looking at the cheap wrapper!

 

 

chocolate bar

 

Take a look at this chocolate on the left. ...umm...looks like it's homemade with the fancy decoration done by hand. Fancy tin, too.

Probably expensive, but I bet it's worth it.

I wonder what's inside? Hopefully peanut butter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chocolate bar

 

Now this chocolate is good. Uncovered, so I can't judge it by its wrapper, but I know it's good because she likes it!

 

 

We make assumptions. We act on these assumptions.

Home staging uses colorful props to transform your home for sale so it looks like a beautifully wrapped product for sale. It works!

 

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38 Comments on Does This Look Good or What?

MAY
23
2007
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Not going to argue about chocolate!  Just make my dark, wrapped or unwrapped!

Good point, Sue.

6:50am • #2
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Dark chocolate.... well, is there anything better? 

Great post, Sue!  It's all in the presentation.

Kathy

7:05am • #3
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Chocolate in the morning? Maybe I should have posted this around 2pm...more readers that way.
7:11am • #4
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Sue, Now you have gone too far. What were you thinking? I don't think we will be able to put up with this type of behavior much longer. Straighten up your act. Yeah, I know the bottom line -- presentation is everything. But, really Sue, tempting us with chocolate before lunch. OK, I want 4 rooms worth, what is the best price?
1:25pm • #5
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Sue - what a perfect analogy and with great pictures, too!!  Make mine white chocolate please!  My honey says there is no other chocolate other than dark, but not to me.....

Ann

6:37pm • #6
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good things are expensive but worth it - you get what you pay for... ok where's my godiva....but sometimes a hershey's kiss will do too...
7:32pm • #7
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Anything to do with good chocolate is great!  The wrapper is important, indeed, but I always check what is beneath the wrapper.  Seeing you wraps, however, I know there will be quality chocolate!  Ymmm
8:55pm • #8
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Brian from Lancaster, PA--hello and thanks for commenting :)
9:35pm • #9
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Margaret my nurse friend, dark chocolate for you today :)
9:36pm • #10
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kathy, I like your new profile pic.

Dark chocolate for you too?

9:37pm • #11
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Ann,

white Ann + dark Bear = very sweet ;>) 

9:39pm • #12
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Karen,

you definitely Otto have Godiva chocolate, don't you think? 

9:40pm • #13
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Ms Root, does cocoa come from the Root or the seeds? Hmmm, I think the beans are seeds from the plants? 
9:42pm • #14
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Joan, you are easy to please I see. Low maintenance. I like that.
9:44pm • #15
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Presentation in the food business is also a major element. Unfortunately they charge you big $$ for the pleasure of looking at a chocolate drizzle!

Perhaps yours is more Inspiration and Impression!

9:45pm • #16
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Joan,

Ahh, First Impressions...yes.

 

9:48pm • #17
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Hummm, don't know. We are carrots, onions and lillys. We also hold up the trees and get into the sewer system. We are needed, can be a nuisance and are NOT roads. But, Cocoa -- now that is a whole different tree. I think Karen Otto give me the chocolate.

This is the truth, I baked brownies this afternoon "for the family." It is your fault Sue.

9:49pm • #18
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Well, I hope those brownies were beautifully wrapped (staged) just for me too?
10:32pm • #19
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You bet Sue. The tin-foil was folded just right!
11:45pm • #20
MAY
24
2007
102,967 Points 2 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog
Stop!!! This is just not right! Not chocolate, not now................
12:51am • #21
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Lori,

Can you perform an artful journey with your chocolate? Please send it to my address NextDay Air. 

10:14am • #22
MAY
25
2007
267,399 Points Outside Blog
AH, Presentation is great. Unless your a Diabetic.
5:03am • #23
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Frank, creativity and problem solving...we can work with that too. But I'm sorry you are a diabetic :(

 

7:39am • #24
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Amazing how a chocoholic and somehow incorporate the old bar of calories into their blog.  The point of the article is well taken.

I gotta go...I need a 3 Musketeers for some reason...

8:59am • #25
MAY
26
2007
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Hello, Steven Maverick n.  2:  an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party.

It seems that you DO go along if there's chocolate involved, hee hee. 

2:16pm • #26
MAY
31
2007
This is sooo not good for my weight watchers. lol
11:15pm • #27

Hi Sue,

indeed presentation is everything, great point! P.S. make mine dark chocolate!

11:25pm • #29
JUN
01
2007
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Hello Edith from Chesterfield County

There's always starting a diet tomorrow, right? 

9:31am • #30
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Troy, are you sneaking your links in my blog???

Welcome to HomesByTroy.com!

that's ok :) 

 

9:32am • #31
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Hello Penny Mesa

Dark chocolate for you today! 

9:34am • #32
JUN
05
2007

Sue,

What a great idea I think I might use that in my presentation someday.  Maybe with cookies, theres the great looking ones, and then theres the burn on the edges one.  Take both to a realtor meeting and see which ones get eaten 1st.  Then end with the point!!!

In regards to presentation I went on you website.  Very nicely done very professional.  However the font was very difficult to read.  I had to get real close to the screen and try to figure out each word.  Now maybe it was my computor but I usually don't have that issue.  You were so "sweet" to share your chocolate with me - I hope this helps.  Becky  

 

Becky Raike
7:42am • #33
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Becky, thank you for letting me know the font is difficult to read on my site. Can you tell me what operating system you have? I will check it out.
8:08am • #34
SEP
21
2007

Ok, now you let me think again of chocolates and I'm under diet. hahaha! Anyway nice and interesting post. Thanks!

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Marco Gonzalez
10:52am • #35

Sue,

Great analogy! Who doesn't like chocolate? And boy, can we all relate!

1:42pm • #36
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Marco, I'm on a non-sugar kick as well. It's a good thing.
6:49pm • #37

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