Irritating adverts

It doesn’t matter what time of the year they are always having sales of sofas and beds etc. Who in their right mind would pay the original pre sale price? Or is the sale price the actual price? The way I see it is they advertise a settee on sale for say 300, what they dont say is if you want the two armchairs that go with them that will set you back another 300. I just get fed up with it all.

…There was only one ultimate washing powder that lived up to the promise, but they withdrew it because it destroyed your clothes in the process.

Well, at least your clothes would always have that “new” look (because they would be!). :highly_amused:

What makes me laugh is when you see a sign in a shop saying,
“Sale now on. Everything must go!”
Like, when the sale is not on they only want to sell a few things?

Chemists that have Immodeum at the impulse counter near the checkout. Lets be honest either you have the ****s or you don’t.

As for tv adverts two that make me cringe.
The SEAT ad with the kid and the spaceship. Yes I want to buy a car that has flashing red bits for tunnel driving.
The mouth wash that states “for people who’s gums bleed when they brush”. Glad they don’t do Analsol.

Deep Joy !!!!!!!!!!!!

First Christmas advert in the local freebie paper today.

Obviously any advert promoting their wares are cognisant of the gravitas of their pitch when they include the seemingly endless portrayal of loads of b*****y meerkats, in cartoon form. (scream)

Washing powder, “the best ever, washes whiter than white”.. far better than its previous version which of course was the best ever and washed whiter than white as well..

There was only one ultimate washing powder that lived up to the promise, but they withdrew it because it destroyed your clothes in the process. 😀

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That is much higher than the rate of inflation.

The ‘rate of inflation’ is an average. Some things go up more than the rate and some things less.

Moggy

FlyPast and the other magazines would be many times more expensive to buy, and a lot thinner.

I cannot speak for those titles, but I have an old 1977 copy of Flight International on my desk. Its cover price was 30p. I do not know how much it costs now, but in 2011 the magazine cost £3.10. That is much higher than the rate of inflation. And to my mind, the magazine is a pale shadow of what it was in the days when it had technical editors of the calibre of Bill Gunston and Mike Wilson, and journalists who were also pilots with the skills needed to fly the advanced fighters and large jet transports of the day. The late Mark Lambert, their international editor of the time, flew both the F-16 and Mirage 2000.

Saw a hoarding for a well-known DIY chain a while ago saying “15% OFF ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! (Exclusions apply)”

Agreed Moggy.

Not necessarily a bad world either.

However i do agree that to be successful any venture has to be advertised.

I guess admist the ranting i’m trying to say tell the truth and not a sugar coated fairytale omitting the not so palatable bits.

It would be a different world i agree; but one with realistic aspirations and goals which may just enable us as humans to get on a little better together and be a touch happier.

Marketing and promotion are two different things.

Marketing is what ensures that people can get the things that they want. Promotion is a small component of marketing that tells them those things are available

But without it we’d have the BBC and nothing more.

It would however improve things like motor racing and football which could go back to being sports once the money was taken from the equation.

The internet would be many zillions times smaller and poorer. Each Google search would cost you money. FlyPast and the other magazines would be many times more expensive to buy, and a lot thinner.

You wouldn’t easily get to know what air displays were taking place, and without mass audiences they would be few and far between anyway.

It would be quite a different world.

Moggy

Sheep. Sad isn’t it.
I hate marketing and promotion with a vengance. One of the evils of our world in my opinion.
It allows and encourages people to have aspirations that are simply not realistic and as a result breeds at best dis-satisfaction and at worst idiotic beliefs.

During the long technicians second strike in 1979, when ITV was effectively blacked out for nearly three months all the major brands reported lost sales due to the lack of advertising. ITV lost hundreds of millions in revenue.

Bizarre – you don’t see Daz advertised on TV so you don’t buy it……

Bear in mind I made my living as an ad man for many years.

I watch very little television.

Very little of what I do watch is on commercial channels

I prefer not to watch a film interrupted by ads, I’d rather just not see it. In dire cases I’ll PVR it and then zap through the ads, but it isn’t truly satisfactory

I can tolerate most ads bar those that insult their customers by portraying them as morons. Phones4U were arch offenders in this for a long while.

What really irritates me is the repetition on the Freeview channels where in the average two hour Lewis or Endeavour repeat I see the same crappy 30 second ad four or five times.

Moggy

(And in answer to a question above, just making the best product can’t be guaranteed to work, despite what Ralph Waldo Emerson said.)

Sounds like you should have used the mute a long time ago or you are watching far too much commercial television!!;)

Whats your biggest irritant?

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Well, given the above, plus the title thread itself = It’s Music !!!!!!!!

Nothing & I mean NOTHING grates me the way these ba$t**ds DO ram a good or great piece of music down your throat !

Examples given ~ Two of my favourite singles of all time, ruined (thru repetitious play)

1, “Just What I Needed” (by The Cars, a brilliant track, flogged mercilessly, time & again) = EDF Energy (IIRC)

2, “Summer Breeze” (by The Iseley Brothers) = Marks & Spencer

As a guitar player/owner & rock-music fan I’ve loved these since my teens (& bought both on vinyl back in the day).

THEN, some corporate a$$-hat comes along & ruins my day (time & again), ramming it down my ears, like it or not 😡

Don’t say “use the mute” ~ Right now I’m SICK of those two tracks I once loved (dearly)

Thankfully, I didn’t get to hear Ernie’s sweet Stratocaster tone (during the main riff, or solo), so at least THAT will retain it’s freshness.

Whilst I’m glad “Just What I Needed” got some more (deserved) recognition, I didn’t want it to be heard 10-12 times a day, 7 days a week.

Anyone else find that (any of) their “GEM” records getting thrashed like a dead horse ?
(metaphorically, the latter, obv’s, for those sensitive types)

Any advert that includes blue fluid, when I’m trying to eat my tea.
and
Tampax adverts, when I’m trying to eat my tea.

Any advert that has a toilet that needs cleaning, when I’m trying to eat my tea.

All money loan shark adverts with 1,940% APR shown all day (not that I watch tv all day).

PPI claim adverts.

Accident and sue people adverts.

Nearly dead? adverts with Parkinson.

Car insurance adverts.

Any adverts that uses drug addicts to market their products. (..to get that Rimmel London look)

Adverts that ‘over sell’ the item, checkout the size of a Twix on tv to the one that you buy from a shop.

Pretty much all adverts really………

Baz

Baz

I get severely wound up when I begin to believe that I’m being force fed with large dollops of political correctness in the shape of a variety of ethnic actors whose presence in the ad gives no additional dimension.

One thing that irritates me is “We here at XXXX believe in good old fashioned service” when they really ought to be saying “We here at XXXX believe in making as much money out of you as we can.”

Is it me or do any of you find some advert claims an insult to intelligence?
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I have found that to be the case since about – ooh – 1955, was it..?? A few humorous and cleverly produced adverts have appeared over the years but most have always been dreadful and have passed me by, although, thankfully watching most of what television I do watch recorded, I tend to pass them by!:D