So much yes. There are almost no commercials I will literally change the channel to avoid (as opposed to checking email or Facebook, or taking a bathroom break). These are number one with a bullet. I wonder if anyone watches them.
I meant *THEY *get the tax advantage. Really.
There really is no tax advantage for a business making a donation. The business deducts the amount as a business expense, which is reasonable since they don’t keep the income, but there is no further benefit. Having said that, I don’t know what buyers this really appeals to. If I am looking to buy a car, the fact that the car maker is donating a couple hundred bucks is irrelevant to me. When I bought my Subaru, I could pick from four or five charities that they would send $200 to. OK, fine. But it didn’t factor into my purchasing decision at all. I guess there is some amount of lingering good will.
There’s an ad for a company that isn’t so much hate-able as “how is this a viable business model”. The company is called, I think, “Re-bag”, and their concept is that they buy used high fashion handbags and then re-sell them. That just opened up a world that was completely hidden to me. Apparently, there are not only women out there who will spend $1K and up on a pocketbook, but there’s enough of them, and a sufficient market for the same that it’s worth starting up a company to broker them secondhand. Wow.
Current most hated: The Hyundai commercial where the salesguy is dressed up in an ugly Christmas sweater, hat, and scarf, standing there with a hot frothy mug of something, approached by the car-buying couple.
At first I hated it because the wife is being so creepy to the young hottie sales guy (“You smell like nutmeg!”) but now I’ve come to hate it because the young hottie sales guy never acknowledges her existence by so much as a glance. She’s speaking to you! Fuck, she’s suddenly wearing an ugly Christmas sweater and has a hot frothy mug of her own…she’s turning into you! What is she, invisible? You’re just rude, bro.
I think salesguy just wants to get the husband into an ugly Christmas sweater and hot frothy mug for his own purposes, while the wife is cursed to remain there selling cars in his place, FOREVER!!!
I ought to pitch that to the *Sharknado *people. 
except it’s not a hot frothy mug, it’s a plastic replica os such. Even weirder.
The Pro Gey and ultra inclusive (As far as Minorities go) tidal wave of casting in TV adds & spots (On a National Level) is disingenuous and misleading …
I couldn’t find a link to it, but the current McDonald’s commercial with the young couple speaking as if they just ingested and are now vomiting up the Urban Dictionary (and are joined by a third regurgitator at the end) makes me want to provide a little projectile emesis myself.
mmm
This one annoys me because the last kid is too big to be kicking and waving her arms around like that. It would be awfully distracting if I was driving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpMYSsawuQ8
This one because the singing so so annoying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWZl2IQHRwY
This perfume commercial because every woman wants to wear a perfume that says I’m a Hooker :rolleyes:
Fortunately, my husband knows me well enough to ignore such ads, but all the “Give her a diamond to tell her she’s special” make me want to punch someone or something. I have never had a diamond, I have never wanted a diamond, and if someone insisted on giving me one, I’d end up selling it. In fact, that goes for most jewelry. I wear a simple (and cheap) gold wedding band and a $12 watch. If I’m really dressing up, I might wear a necklace. So I’ve decided to take it personally when any company suggests that my love can be bought with sparklies.
All perfume and jewelry ads make me punchy. Extra points to jewelry ads where someone calls it jool-ery.
Yeah, I don’t give a shit where he went. I’d be talking to one of my sisters if I were in the market for jewelry, she had her own business on the side until gold got priced out of her range.
And now the debeers blood Diamond monopoly wants you to buy “Chocolate” diamonds, the same shit brown ones that previously they ground up for tools, 'cause they were so ugly no one wanted them.:eek::mad::rolleyes:
How do YOU say it?
Joo-well-ree?
Actually, I kind of admire the cleverness and the chutzpah behind the “chocolate diamonds”. As you said, brown diamonds were undesirable and then this company (Le Vian, which is not, as far as I can tell, the De Beers cartel) trademarked the phrase “chocolate diamonds” and is now selling the formerly worthless stuff.
Sorry if it’s been mentioned, but the Amazon commercial where the dad leaves his young son for his first day of school, but watches him through a window and is concerned that the little dude isn’t applauded and embraced immediately by his classmates. So dad goes on Amazon and orders something. Cut to–the kid arriving at school again, but this time he’s wearing a goofy Superman costume. The other kids cheer him, and he smiles. Dad is creepily viewing all this from the window again and smiles in satisfaction.
Just a :smack: commercial in so many ways.
True. But Kay/ Le Vian) gets their diamonds exclusively from De Beers.
http://jezebel.com/the-truth-about-chocolate-diamonds-5887100
DeBeers followed this trend and in 1996 introduce massive number of brown diamonds to the market. These brown diamonds were previously only used for industrial purposes.[1]
I would guess that the car-makers’ calculation is that people who are on the fence about indulging themselves with a new car will be able to justify it with *‘hey, I’m doing something wonderful for a charity!’ *
Helping potential buyers rationalize making a purchase is a big part of marketing (which is what the ‘buy something and we’ll donate’ tactic is).
Haven’t seen that one, but I know any school I ever went to would have sent the kid home if he came in wearing a costume on a day other than Halloween. Some would have done it on Halloween, too.