Offensive Newegg Ads

[viranimus]

Well I sort of think its bullshit for Newegg to claim "experts" considering that your not using their staff (which is genuinely brain dead) your using user reviews which is no different than Amazon had available over a decade ago.

Actually Neweggs customer service is about the worst part of dealing with them, but its not entirely their fault, because when you outsource your customer service to that region of the world you basically always get the same result.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Everyone, including Newegg, is out to get you.

Lose the persecution complex and you won't feel bad about the ads.

What the hell are you talking about? I said I thought the ads were insulting and offensive. Not that they were "out to get me." Dealing with the public sucks and they make a joke of it, when I'm sure their employees have customer service problems every day.

Have fun psychoanalyzing strangers when you can't get a job outside of the service industry. It helps pass the time.

 

[bob1052]

Everyone, including Newegg, is out to get you.

Lose the persecution complex and you won't feel bad about the ads.

What the hell are you talking about? I said I thought the ads were insulting and offensive. Not that they were "out to get me." Dealing with the public sucks and they make a joke of it, when I'm sure their employees have customer service problems every day.

Have fun psychoanalyzing strangers when you can't get a job outside of the service industry. It helps pass the time.

You are getting insulted and offended over an ad directed in no way at you. You then post that people who disagree with you are condescending and cynical for disagreeing with you.

Also congrats on trying to insult someone over the internet.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

You are getting insulted and offended over an ad directed in no way at you. You then post that people who disagree with you are condescending and cynical for disagreeing with you.

Also congrats on trying to insult someone over the internet.

But it is directed at me. They sell products I would buy. They regularly advertise on a website I use. It is condescending to assume I get offended at the rain falling. It is cynical to believe that every low level employee of a business is a drooling idiot.

I know this is just text and I can't win anything or even come remotely close to changing your mind. I'm bored with this. This thread started 10 hours ago.

 

[Flutterguy]

Well I'm sorry but I really don't see how you find this insulting, one company is claiming to have a more knowledgeable staff then the other.

 

[Zodka]

Trust me when I say the employees at my towns local retailer *cough* Best Buy *cough* really suck.
I've been there quite a few times to buy things and I've had to help other people out because the employees there know nothing.

 

[Chibz]

I find it hilarious because of how badly newegg screws over Canadians.

And this is just me but they could at least serve me dinner.

Spoiler

Because I like to be wined and dined before I'm FUCKED.

 

[Rayne870]

I have worked in electronics retail and made a name for myself as the local go to guy since I would rather help than needlessly up-sell, I found the ad hilarious and particularly accurate to a lot of people I have worked with, including a coworker who was working with me to pay off damages to his brothers car which he destroyed in a police chase, and his brother was a lawyer and sued his ass into the ground. AND THEN he got fired for selling drugs in the store to other workers. And during all of that he didn't know a damn thing about the electronics he sold every day. It's funny and people need to stop trying to be offended.

It really is sad that people have such soft skin when it comes to being offended and insulted. I've been degraded by people in the worst possible ways in my life, and this stuff that people complain about comes no where close to even mildly upsetting me for a second.

 

[bob1052]

Well I'm sorry but I really don't see how you find this insulting, one company is claiming to have a more knowledgeable staff then the other.

They aren't. They don't mention their employees once. They don't claim that other employees are worse than theirs. They don't claim that their's are better.

The whole point of the ad is that you get information without any reliance on any employee.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Surprise, surprise. The ad works for condescending cynical people. I rest my case.

The ad works for people who have gone to a store and encountered horrible employees, which is just about everyone. The ad is aimed at bad employees, and if you feel offended by it, then you are a bad employee.

Here is the gist of the ad "Look, at the store, employees may not be able to answer your questions, but at Newegg there's plenty of review by people who own the actual product, those making them far more knowledgeable about it than anyone at a store" That is the truth. I'm still not understanding quite how that offends you.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Having worked in retail for some time, I don't think I've ever come across a customer that asked me such a sensible question in a polite voice.

Usually it's the equivalent of
"Oi, do you have that book off the TV. It's got an orange cover."

The smarter customers are the ones that have already read the pieces of information detailing the changes between the products. Because that's all we'll be doing.

Even Geeks can't tell you the precise difference between two products. And Newegg can't either.