Every goddamned week there is an ad in the local paper for the gold-buying outfits around here, and they also want old silver coins and watches, although i think my sisters might kill me If I sold grandpa’s coins.
I’m not loaded down with tacky bling that i am dying to unload, and even if i was i’d go to a jeweler before i went to one of these places.
This guy sounds like a lawyer, already trying to litigate your disgust away. “He didn’t mean to shoot her in the head 5 times, his mother wasn’t nice to him you see, and public education, let us not forget Mrs. Volchevsky and those time outs.”
Civilization is the process of using language and hierarchy to lubricate the orifices of the masses so that when the daily bendover occurs they say, “These Santa Ana winds sure are warm.”
Not knowing the case, of course, but mant class actions are brought precisely because each individual claimant has a relatively small loss. Sometimes only $20-50. No one would sue individually over that amount, and a large company, say an insurance company, could rip off one million customers $25 each and improperly add $25,000,000 to their bottom line. A class action that gave $20 to each ripped off insured, and paid the attorneys fir their work, would not be so outrageous.
I will also admit, some class actions are ridiculous.
dont want to get sidetracked from the topic but of course youre right in how they work, it shouldn’t be that private companies need to do this, the government should be investigating and bringing suit (which they do on rare occasions, maybe its just fines mostly but they get the job done sometimeswith orders for restitution) No reason to rely on lawyers only perusing the easy to win cases, the big cases, and often getting paid several lifetimes worth of compensation for one case.
The only ads i see these days are online, and it’s usually the same ad Ill watch 100 times before the next one comes up, Captian Morgan was certainly being pushed hard, maybe with the economy and new alcoholics appearing out of the woodwork they want to make sure people kill themselves with their brand, get them used to it while so many are going to the well.
California first 5 or the, “Hey poor laborers please don’t neglect your children even though you have no time or money to provide them with their needs whatsoever. Also, please stay out of our public places. Thank you.”
Financial advisors “Do you have the audacity to look at how incredibly intelligent and trustworthy we appear?” I want these people to die in a fire, nothing more irritating than that ad, ever ever ever, and I have seen
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True, but how just how much jewellery are you going to need if society collapses and money ceases to have any value?
Captain Morgan spiced rum, directed nonstop at the budding underage alkies. It’s been the drink of choice in most drunk-driving cases around here. All it is is this decade’s Night Train or Mad Dog!
And the real Capt. Morgan was a scurvilicious smallpox-pocked man who resembles the ad icon as much as the Geico Gecko does.
I think he’s a truly awful comedian who is wildly popular with college students.
Pandora jewelry is advertised really heavily on several of my local channels. There’s no way it isn’t overpriced garbage with the amount of money that gets poured into their ad budget, both by the manufacturer producing the fancy ads and the local retailers paying for ad time. It’s worse than Jared, though admittedly not by much.
The thing that makes me so suspicious of natural gas advertising is articles like this one. A quick look at the steadily falling price of solar power suggests that solar is going to be both the cheapest and also the cleanest/most convenient way to generate power. I think the flood of natural gas advertising is designed to divert people’s attention away from both the problems with fracking and the competitiveness of other sources of power.
Actually, yes. Their market share on dinner took a hit from health crazes, from “eat less red meat”, etc. Why do you think Pork picked “The other white meat” as its slogan? Their ads are from the same motivation - loss of market. “People are eating less beef. What can we do? Start a marketing campaign to remind them about beef.”
They can’t tout the health benefits, so they change the framing of the conversation. Instead of pushing how healthy it is, they do a “feels good” campaign where they remind you that beef is as American as mom and apple pie (Wait, Mom is American? Do other countries not have a mom? Shut Up!)
Essentially, they want you to remember how tasty it is, how many things you do that it fits in. They want you to think “I’m barbecuing, let’s get hamburgers” not “Let’s get chicken.” So yes, they very much are counting on consumers to decide to buy more beef because they think about beef when thinking about what to eat.
My main beef is that the lawyers get their cut in cash, while the consumers usually get their their awards in gift cards or discounts or otherwise not in cash. In your insurance example, the customers would not receive the $20 in cash, but as a partial payment towards their next premium. An airline will offer a certain amount of money off the next flight, for instance. So the consumer’s awards are only good if the consumer makes another purchase from the offending company. I dunno about you, but when I am suing a company, I don’t want to have to do business again with that company.
This is correct. And to drill down a bit further, he is wildly popular with college girls. College boys, who are wild about college girls, go to Dane Cook concerts because that’s where all the college girls are.
QED
Jared commercials make me want to punch people.
Yeah, that pill you can take to make your eye lashes thicker and the side effects are change in color pigmentation and blurry vision!
Geico, as a post up-thread has already mentioned.
Cable TV services, especially Comcast. And AT&T U-Verse.
Geico.
Persian rugs going-out-of-business sales.
Did we mention Geico yet?
Abandoned multi-million dollar bank accounts in Nigeria.
Which also reminds me… Geico.
And as for:
Strange they should advertise so heavily for a service that most people only need one of.
Geico.
Well, there really are retirement homes like you see in those ads, but of course those are for well-to-do retirees who are in fairly good health. The rest of us will rot in those shitty rat-hole homes like you are thinking of.
That hospital must pitch to quite a large service area. I think I’ve heard their ads in the San Francisco area too.
Lol! The persian rug store in my town has been ‘going out of business’ for years.
Those victims paid a 3% foreign currency exchange fee for using a credit card outside the US. Most of them wouldn’t even have known they were scammed if not for the lawyers. How much do you think they should be getting?
That $51 million is part of a $336 million total settlement.
Sorry, no ballpark; I didn’t work in media buying, so I really couldn’t begin to guess. I do know that the “local buys” that your local businesses do with the cable operator (in which the cable company “cuts in” the local ads on top of whatever ads the cable network is running) can be very cheap, especially if (a) they aren’t running on the top-tier cable channels, and (b) they buy a number of ads at once.
As far as the second question: if a cable channel doesn’t sell all of their ad space, they’ll run promos for their own programming (or occasionally promos for programs on sister stations). That, too, can get very tiresome if you watch the same channel for a few hours (oh, look, it’s that promo for Mythbusters…AGAIN!)
