I swear off so many products and services for no other reason than their obnoxious, repetitive commercials.
Off top of my head, I will never buy Old Spice anything because their ads are so repetitive and obnoxious. I feel disgust when I see it in the store and actively avoid it for no other reason than their spam campaigns.
Same for USAA, Native body wash, AmEx, Liberty insurance (that forced catchy theme), and more.
Anyone else feel the same way? Or have you caught yourself getting suckered in because of ads’ subconscious shenanigans?
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nord vpn is getting there too
Not completely related but there are a number of landscaping companies that use a small plastic bag to hold their business card and a small rock and then throw them into everyone’s driveways once a month.
never gonna contact them
That’s textbook littering, how have they not been fined out of existence?
I’ve seen that as well. Good way to smash someone’s car/house window one day.
You reminded me of this guy who used to put a 3x5 note card with his handwriting on it and would put it on select cars in the neighborhood saying “I buy junk cars”. Basically only on cars that didn’t look to be in the best shape.
Way to go disrespecting people you want to do business with!
I’ve seen posts recently that someone is going around doing this to every cyber truck they see.
I’m not mad at it.
That’s more obnoxious then leaving a flier in my mailbox. I’m not calling any contractor who does either. If they were any good they wouldn’t need to do that, word of mouth would keep them busy.
Temu. No idea what scam they’re running but I will never buy anything from them.
The “scam” is slaves and sweat shops.
Those ads…
🎶 “Feels like a dream, feels like magic…” 🎶🤮
It’s not a scam AFAIK, but it’s basically just a worse version of aliexpress.
I hadn’t considered that was possible
Yup. Any of the YouTube culprits… NordVPN, Raycon, that sort of thing. Nope.
I often wonder who is buying these?? I can somewhat understand NordVPN, but Raycons?? They’re almost as expensive as name brand earbuds but come off as a cheap dollar store brand. But I guess people really like their fav YouTube channels to actually buy these?
These days, ads seem to have an inverse reaction for whether or not I will buy something. The more I am inundated with ads for it, the more I think the product is not good enough to stand on its own legs.
Modern companies have realized they can make more money by cutting materials and R&D costs and putting the difference into advertising. You don’t need to have a good product, you just need to drown out the competition.
This is how I see it too. In the age of social media and specialist media outlets for every field, if you’re paying for advertising that means not just that you’re wasting money that you could have used to lower your prices, but that your product is probably not very good because nobody is talking about it.
I look at reviews more than I look at advertising. On top of that I look at negative reviews. Most negative reviews usually have pros and cons listed or will actually go into depth about the product and it’s shortcomings unlike most positive reviews that just say “it’s great!”
Where are you seeing such “most go into depth”? Most of what I see is utter trash, like “perfectly fine” with 3/5. Or “it arrived too late / on time”. Good ones are rare in comparison.
I guess I should elaborate. I look at more than just what’s on the site. I’ll actually go around and look for 3rd party reviews and such. It’s not fool proof but I’ve had a much better buying experience since I’ve started doing that.
Anything advertised by a YouTuber. Some mattress company, some VPN, etc
I have a rule that if I see a commercial or an unskipable ad (even if it’s unskipable for the first five seconds) on YouTube or wherever. That I never buy that product.
I share this rule ! Annoy me and damned if I’ll ever try your product.
A little tangential, but if someone knocked on my door and tried to sell me the patent for the cure to the common cold for $10, I’d refuse on principle alone. Stop trying to sell me stuff.
I never did end up buying the “Girls Gone Wild” tapes for this very reason.
With the advent of the internet and a bit of sailing the high seas it wasn’t hard to get a hold of em anyway.
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YouTube itself.
I was there before YouTube had ads. And Ive avoided it since they implemented them.
No, but I have noticed that services with more advertising are typically of less quality, which often deters me because of that.
I remember when I was little thinking due to the commercials that Geico was the shit, but then my friend’s family got into a (fortunately harmless) car accident, and Geico did actual shit. Not that it’s not still fun to randomly insert Geico jokes everywhere.
If you are from around mid Michigan then Sundance Chevrolet, omg the ads are obnoxious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c3VT6662qs
He’s on a freaking horse!
Ungh we have a similar thing around me for a used car company… just absolutely obnoxious commercials (that run way too fucking often) made very very poorly by the people who own the company and have an absolute gob of money… like they could hire better (and likely pay a lot to stage that shit to look low budget) and choose not to, because stupid people fall for the “Joe Everyman” bullshit they pull.
It is not an online case but in Spain we have a telephone company called Jazztel. Their phone spam was so intense that it became a national meme. I once told one of the operators that they could give away gold bars with every bill and still wouldn’t hire them for being annoying
