Poll: So has an advert ever actually put you off spending money on the product advertised?
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yeah i got one MASSIVE pain in the ass ad....
its so bad it requires a spoiler... (which i can't for the love of me, remember how to name)
you have been warned.
[spoiler horrible ad]
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this ad makes me ashamed to say i work there.......
DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!!
its so bad it requires a spoiler... (which i can't for the love of me, remember how to name)
you have been warned.
[spoiler horrible ad]
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this ad makes me ashamed to say i work there.......
DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!!
I concur really I dont see many ads now (well I do because they are everywhere) but I dont watch many commercial ads where they make a mini show and try and sell you stuff because it annoys the crap out of me but if I was going to buy it an ad is highly unlikely to put me off and will never change my mind if I wasnt interested anyway. The only time an ad ever really has any sway is if I am in two minds about buying it then it can push me either way but this rarely happens as I just do research on it look at the options then decide in the rare case im still on the fence then the ad may sway me but it usually sways me not to buy it simply because I dont like ads they annoy me to no end and were one of the reasons I stopped watching TV.DarthSka said:
Give me a year to think it over if you want to, I still can't decide whether they meant that ironically or not.Shoggoth2588 said:
And me, I stay away from anything that's advertised with Spotify. I mustn't reward them for ruining my music. Thank goodness I got a paid account a year back.
Do you mean the "It will make your mum cry." ad? Because I still think that was pretty funny and everyone forgot about it like 2 days after it first aired.tippy2k2 said:
If you want to see an ad that is truly insulting to gamers as a whole, go take a look at that 5 minute WiiU ad that was released a while ago.
Fucking patronising and insulting on every level I can think of.
How many of you people are familiar with the advert maker Tom Rubnitz who creates "disturbing randomness that seem to have no other point than to cause galactic jolts of fear, morbid curiosity, sexual insinuations, and demonic hellish nightmares."
Seriously, look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4
I swear this is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen (Yes, even more than the Slenderman).
Seriously, look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4
I swear this is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen (Yes, even more than the Slenderman).
Anyone in the UK has no doubt heard about Go Compare.
if not, well, you've been warned -
Because of this advert, I will never, ever use this company. They could give me £5 a year car insurance and 15 sexy russian models to be my wives, and I still would not touch them with a bargepole.
if not, well, you've been warned -
Because of this advert, I will never, ever use this company. They could give me £5 a year car insurance and 15 sexy russian models to be my wives, and I still would not touch them with a bargepole.
There are adverts for 3 products that really puts me off buying them and those are, cars, perfume/deodorant and mobile phones.
Why?
Because they are so fucking pretentious that makes me want to throw stuff at the TV. Seriously, a car advert will show driving a certain car to be almost orgasmic experience, show me a car advert which basically goes "Its a car. It does this. Buy One" my money would not leave my wallet fast enough (not that I carry around enough money in my wallet to buy a car outright). Pretty much the same problem with mobile phone adverts, I use my phone for texting, phoning and an alarm clock. Everything else on my phone lays useless, I simply do not need it, yet every phone advert is determined to sell me stuff I don't need or use.
As for perfume adverts, which most of the time you have no idea what the fuck its about until the end of the advert. Its particularly bad around Christmas where perfume advertisers actually seem to have a pretentious off.
And deodorant adverts that make it seem that the only thing you need to score chicks is their deodorant. Looks, personality, sense of humour, these things we are told that women look for in a man. Nope, all you need is this deodorant and the women will flock to you. Sure, not smelling like a caveman does help with the women, but your cheap deodorant is not the aphrodisiac you claim it is.
Oh and beer adverts, namely Fosters, Carling, Bud, Coors and Millar. Stop spending so much money on trying to get me to drink your flavourless swill (yes all adverts are aimed at me).
Why?
Because they are so fucking pretentious that makes me want to throw stuff at the TV. Seriously, a car advert will show driving a certain car to be almost orgasmic experience, show me a car advert which basically goes "Its a car. It does this. Buy One" my money would not leave my wallet fast enough (not that I carry around enough money in my wallet to buy a car outright). Pretty much the same problem with mobile phone adverts, I use my phone for texting, phoning and an alarm clock. Everything else on my phone lays useless, I simply do not need it, yet every phone advert is determined to sell me stuff I don't need or use.
As for perfume adverts, which most of the time you have no idea what the fuck its about until the end of the advert. Its particularly bad around Christmas where perfume advertisers actually seem to have a pretentious off.
And deodorant adverts that make it seem that the only thing you need to score chicks is their deodorant. Looks, personality, sense of humour, these things we are told that women look for in a man. Nope, all you need is this deodorant and the women will flock to you. Sure, not smelling like a caveman does help with the women, but your cheap deodorant is not the aphrodisiac you claim it is.
Oh and beer adverts, namely Fosters, Carling, Bud, Coors and Millar. Stop spending so much money on trying to get me to drink your flavourless swill (yes all adverts are aimed at me).
The 'GoCompare' and 'ComparetheMarket' adverts.
I like the idea of comparison websites, I refuse to use these two as I refuse to allow them to think their irritating advertising has succeeded.
Conversely, Jean-Claude Van Damme has successfully sold Coors to me. As an Ale enthusiast and general hater of mass-produced shitty lagers, I would never have gone out and bought it except for the fact that those JCVD adverts are fucking awesome.
I like the idea of comparison websites, I refuse to use these two as I refuse to allow them to think their irritating advertising has succeeded.
Conversely, Jean-Claude Van Damme has successfully sold Coors to me. As an Ale enthusiast and general hater of mass-produced shitty lagers, I would never have gone out and bought it except for the fact that those JCVD adverts are fucking awesome.
I bought Old Spice because of the ad. But I really liked it more then my old ones, so I still buy them. Ads are not all bad.
It has happened to me before, it's really easy to get thrown off of something because of a crappy advert. EA adverts are usaully pretty terrible. I lost interest in the new Hitman game after the nun advert and I lose interest easily if they give out a crappy advert that makes me worry the game has been "dumbed down for the masses".
Yep. For me it would be the game El Shaddai. I can't say that I had any particular interest in the game before the ad was posted here on The Escapist, but once the ad was posted it was literally the only ad the site was using. This would have been annoying enough but not a deal breaker.. except the way the ad was programmed basically broke the site and made it an extreme pain to view. After what seemed like a month of it they finally switched ads to something else and any potential interst I might have had in the game was long gone.
I hardly watch TV now, and the TV that do i watch is streamed (legally) from the internet. So i can only really comment on adverts online.
Ad's for MMO's like Terra with scantly dressed women annoy the hell out of me because i feel it's exploiting my sexual orientation to garner attention.
Ad's for MMO's like Terra with scantly dressed women annoy the hell out of me because i feel it's exploiting my sexual orientation to garner attention.
I feel I need to explain WHY the Dead Space 2 ad irked me so much since a number of people in here seem to think it's because I thought it was portraying gamers as immature, which, while a surface issue, is not my issue. Maybe I'm reading too deep into the ads but here is what I saw:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association (you're going to get the cliff notes version down below):
The bill above was the "California to ban M-rated sales to minors". While the bill was being argued (November 2010 area), the Dead Space 2 ad came out. The makers of the bill argued that gaming companies were marketing M-rated video games to children and that's (one of the reasons) why the video game law forbidding the sales of M-rated games to children existed.
Dead Space 2 was doing it's damndest to prove them right. Now seriously, who over the age of 17 really gives a shit if their parents think that their video games are too violent? I'm sure there are a few but most normal adults don't really care if Mommy thinks that this is too much. Who does care about this though? Teenagers. Teenagers, the demographic that a M-rated game is not supposed to go after because it's outside their age-group. The very thing that the California bill was trying to stop and Dead Space 2's ad spit in the face of everyone arguing why the law was a bad idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association (you're going to get the cliff notes version down below):
The bill above was the "California to ban M-rated sales to minors". While the bill was being argued (November 2010 area), the Dead Space 2 ad came out. The makers of the bill argued that gaming companies were marketing M-rated video games to children and that's (one of the reasons) why the video game law forbidding the sales of M-rated games to children existed.
Dead Space 2 was doing it's damndest to prove them right. Now seriously, who over the age of 17 really gives a shit if their parents think that their video games are too violent? I'm sure there are a few but most normal adults don't really care if Mommy thinks that this is too much. Who does care about this though? Teenagers. Teenagers, the demographic that a M-rated game is not supposed to go after because it's outside their age-group. The very thing that the California bill was trying to stop and Dead Space 2's ad spit in the face of everyone arguing why the law was a bad idea.