Companies realised that advertising isn’t about giving you logical basis for a purchase, it’s about seeding ideas in your brain.

They want to make it so when you get hungry, you think of Specific Burger Joint and when you are looking for a phone you think of Specific Manufacturer

Price isn’t in the equation, they just want that presence in your headspace to influence whatever decisions you make later down the line. Its part of why I hate ads and have eliminated them from my life everywhere I can. I don’t want companies living in my head rent-free.

I still see “from somenumber” in car commercials from time to time. Maybe it’s only for products where you can’t easily go order it online, choosing between several outlets trying to undercut each other’s prices.

Depends on the comercials, but most likely it’s that most things vary by location. Food and services they are running a national comercial when each individual store has pricing ability. Other products, probably still the pricing changes. IE lots of factors may cause them to raise or lower the price. Comercials only goal is to subtly get into your brain so you are biased towards them when you make the decision later.

Probably because they know you’ll just check on Amazon or similar. Back in the day, you had to look for a newspaper ad, get the catalogue, or visit the shop to find out. Now it’s enough to just wet whet your appetite and you’ll do the rest.

Also, pricing has gotten more complicated this millennium. Companies like charging different prices in different areas to different people to maximise their revenue.

In tv commercials? For most things i think price varies a lot by location. Sometimes we see commercials for cars or a six flags season pass that have amounts.

In australia we have prices in ads. Im assuming this is in the us?

rational thought is the most effective weapon any person can have [against the companies trying to steal your money out of your pockets with mindwashing ads] so they try to not activate it by not citing numbers.