The sticker-price premium of an electric car over a gasoline one will also dissuade consumers, critics say, especially now that gasoline prices have steadied.
Renée Sharp, the California director of the Washington-based Environmental Working Group, said she hoped the law would dissuade consumers from buying relatively high-radiation phones until their effect on the human body was fully understood.
The Rochester group intended to dissuade consumers from buying eggs from farms that use cages by producing a film to show conditions at the Wegmans farm, one of the largest in the Northeast.
These quotas set an absolute limit on the amount of certain goods that can be imported into a country and tend to be more effective than protective tariffs, which do not always dissuade consumers who are willing to pay a higher price for an imported good.
This attitude has been taken to morbid extremes in recent years, most notably in the late 1990s with the hiring of mercenary 'death squads' by groups of merchants wishing to cleanse their street of threatening gangs of youths that might dissuade consumers.
If anything, bluelight seems to be doing everything within its power to dissuade consumers from signing on.
In addition, health insurance companies in some cases will implement large price increases that could dissuade consumers, though prices for the health insurance polices used to set subsidy levels appear more stable, suggesting that affordable options will remain available, at least in many markets.
Markdowns, discounters and the marketing of designers' other products, like accessories, have dissuaded consumers from buying expensive clothes.
Both companies and consumers are expected to feel the pinch: Firms will likely pass along costs by raising prices on laptops, cellphones and other devices, dissuading consumers, already reeling from the recession, from upgrading to the latest models on offer from Silicon Valley.
At first, we take a look at the economic barriers that dissuade consumers from repairing products.
