Because I am sick of hearing about the economic "crisis"

TheBrutalTruth

TheBrutalTruth

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misshestermoffitt said:
I'm going to have to agree with Med on this pushy salesman issue. I had the same problem before too. Drive onto a lot to browse a car and before we even get our car stopped, 3 salesmen fell out of the sky and were up our asses.

Another time I wanted to look at a car, but since a salesman was leaning against it (it must get a lot of browsing) I kept on moving.

Another time we wanted to browse a car when it was winter and really cold out, we pulled up with a plan, we're leaping out, looking fast and if we see the show room door open, we're in the car and gone. That salesman came running out still trying to put his coat on, but by the time he got to the car, we were outta there.

Went to a different lot. Salesman came out 3 or 4 minutes after we had been browsing the car, he didn't run, he casually walked. He was nice, he stepped a car or 2 away when he thought we wanted to talk privately. We bought that car.

I've only bought one house, and I sort of trusted that women, I went to school with her son back in the day. I think we did Ok with this purchase, but we are hoping to buy something different within the next 2 years. That's where it gets scary. Houses can have so many hidden problems.
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Pushy salespeople suck, but it is so entertaining to drag them along until they actually try to get you to say yes, and then say that you're not really interested, because of "some feature or aspect" of the product/service that you do not like.

Though in general, I don't have a problem with sales people. I have a problem with incompetent marketing divisions. Those stupid fuckers continuously send the same junk mail over and over no matter how many times I just callously ignore their mail.

AT&T, Verizon, Geico, Time Warner, ..., the list of companies with stupid marketing companies is endless. One would think that they would be smarter with their marketing dollars. I wonder how much they pay to have a single 60 cent direct mailing to me.

I mean, what makes them think that if I've ignored their harassment of my mail box for nearly 18 months straight, that I'm going to suddenly stop ignoring it and pay attention to them.

If I wanted cable, I already know what company I'd go with. I'm happy with my insurance carrier (I'm not stupid enough to believe their bullshit too good to be true ads), and I definitely don't need another damn cellphone, especially not an AT&T or a Verizon.

Hell, in just a week in Boston, I've remembered why I hate TV so much, commercials. Not that there aren't good/funny commercials, but some of them just are pointless/stupid or accomplish the opposite of their "goals".

I mean, it seems like the idiots that hire the marketing companies fail to follow up the "do you like this commercial?" question with the more logical question, (and the one that is 10x more important), "Would you buy this product based on this commercial?"
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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Sometimes I see a commercial and I don't even know what they're selling, am I supposed to buy the car, the girl has lovely hair, maybe they're trying to sell me shampoo, wait, look how white her teeth are, white strips maybe?
 
TheBrutalTruth

TheBrutalTruth

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misshestermoffitt said:
Sometimes I see a commercial and I don't even know what they're selling, am I supposed to buy the car, the girl has lovely hair, maybe they're trying to sell me shampoo, wait, look how white her teeth are, white strips maybe?
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Oh yeah, can't forget the commercials where the first question should have been asked, "Do you know what product this commercial is trying to sell you?"
 
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