Is it just me or are the companies selling online ads doing a comically bad job?
Typically the ads I get couldn’t be more off target or the ads for car rentals start to appear when I got home from my trip. Is Google just ripping advertisers off or am I the only one?
(Yes, I have a Facebook profile, I use gmail. You’d think they would be showing me stuff I want, or something someone could conceivably believes he can sell me?)
I worked for a while at a natural gas company. Shortly after I started, I saw a lot of online ads for natural gas companies.
I keep getting ads for a product that I looked at about a month ago.
I’ve clicked on them a few times. Each time I go to the seller’s web site where it tells me that the product is no longer available.
For some reason, a couple websites think I speak Spanish. I only speak two languages. English and Bad English.
I hate the targeted ads! It’s just creepy. I feel like I’m being followed or stalked and makes me defensive. I like to browse online a lot before I buy. If I look at something then get an ad for it the next day, it does not make me like it more. I make a point NOT to order it. And if I did buy it, why do I need to see it again?
That’s just it, in my experience it’s never creepy. That would suggest some level of competence in the process. Right now I’m shopping for a hard drive and a MP3 player. I see ads for vacuum cleaners (I bought one last month). It is as if there is a huge delay, rendering the whole idea pointless. After I bought something one would think ads for exactly that item I just bought are utterly wasted on me.
I have kids and just spent a fair amount of time shopping for toys, where are the ads for toys? I just bought a espresso machine, I spent days researching that shit online, where are the ads for beans or insulated cups?
Do I have some magical configuration on my laptop, iPhone and iPad that prevents the targeting to work properly in my specific case or is the whole thing just a poorly worked out marketing gimmick for Google?
I keep getting Facebook ads from a computer company - a month after buying a computer from them.
Here’s one that worries me: I recently got an ad for coffee creamer, 30 minutes after returning from the supermarket where I had bought a competitor’s brand. No online searches were involved; the only possible way anybody could have known what I bought was by checking my supermarket club card records.
I often see ads for my company’s competitors. No thanks! And I at times see ads for us, too.
I guess this kind of thing works for people who are less decisive than I am? Because if I looked at a product, I’ve either bought it or I don’t want it anymore. I just love seeing ads for an item I own already. And if I didn’t buy it, showing me the same thing isn’t going to make me magically buy it now. Something about it made me change my mind: poor reviews, it’s too expensive, can’t get it by when I want it, or whatever. So I’m not going to change my mind if you present to me exactly the same thing.
I guess for people who are waffling, being bombarded with an item makes them give in? I don’t know. I’ve always thought it was stupid to keep showing me something I walked away from.
My spam mail contains many penis enlarger ads.
Who told them my penis needed enlarging?