I swear off so many products and services for no other reason than their obnoxious, repetitive commercials.

Off top of my head, I will never buy Old Spice anything because their ads are so repetitive and obnoxious. I feel disgust when I see it in the store and actively avoid it for no other reason than their spam campaigns.

Same for USAA, Native body wash, AmEx, Liberty insurance (that forced catchy theme), and more.

Anyone else feel the same way? Or have you caught yourself getting suckered in because of ads’ subconscious shenanigans?

  • Porto881@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    Yes. If anything, I avoid buying products that I see ads for, period. My ad blocking is pretty extensive, I’d say, so any ads that I do see must have a pretty huge marketing campaign behind them.

    I can’t trust that a company can make good products when theyre spending so much conspicuous money just on advertising. Makes me feel like the company is 10% R&D, 90% marketing.

    Word of mouth is pretty much the only way I learn about new products, and even then from trusted groups/people. Reddit posts pre-2016 or current, but niche interest communities, are the best for this.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comOPEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      You make a good point I didn’t think about! All that money into advertising that could have gone into the product or better avenues like paying your workers a better wage. And that feeds back into the last part of your comment, that if workers were paid and treated better, I think a lot more workers would take more pride in their work and encourage more customers through word of mouth.

      I remember my ex and one other person recently telling me about going to Walmart and having employees explicitly tell customers they would never shop at the store they work for.

      That’s crazy! All that money they waste on ads could’ve gone to the employees who would be less likely to trash the company and make them look horrible to shop at.

      Versus a place like Costco where I can’t remember ever seeing an ad but treats their employees well enough that employees do encourage people to shop at their stores.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    A little tangential, but if someone knocked on my door and tried to sell me the patent for the cure to the common cold for $10, I’d refuse on principle alone. Stop trying to sell me stuff.

  • Hominy_Hank@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    I have a rule that if I see a commercial or an unskipable ad (even if it’s unskipable for the first five seconds) on YouTube or wherever. That I never buy that product.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 days ago

    YouTube itself.

    I was there before YouTube had ads. And Ive avoided it since they implemented them.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    8 days ago

    Yup. Any of the YouTube culprits… NordVPN, Raycon, that sort of thing. Nope.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I often wonder who is buying these?? I can somewhat understand NordVPN, but Raycons?? They’re almost as expensive as name brand earbuds but come off as a cheap dollar store brand. But I guess people really like their fav YouTube channels to actually buy these?

  • Foni@lemm.ee
    4·
    8 days ago

    It is not an online case but in Spain we have a telephone company called Jazztel. Their phone spam was so intense that it became a national meme. I once told one of the operators that they could give away gold bars with every bill and still wouldn’t hire them for being annoying

  • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    🎶BK MEEeeEEeeEElts🎶 I’m already vegetarian, but Burger King’s stupid jingle makes me want to melt my local franchise to the ground.

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Ungh we have a similar thing around me for a used car company… just absolutely obnoxious commercials (that run way too fucking often) made very very poorly by the people who own the company and have an absolute gob of money… like they could hire better (and likely pay a lot to stage that shit to look low budget) and choose not to, because stupid people fall for the “Joe Everyman” bullshit they pull.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    I actually can’t remember any products I’ve seen in ads since my kids and I have started making fart noises and sad trombone noises throughout every YT commercial.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    Not completely related but there are a number of landscaping companies that use a small plastic bag to hold their business card and a small rock and then throw them into everyone’s driveways once a month.

    never gonna contact them

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      2·
      8 days ago

      That’s more obnoxious then leaving a flier in my mailbox. I’m not calling any contractor who does either. If they were any good they wouldn’t need to do that, word of mouth would keep them busy.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comOPEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I’ve seen that as well. Good way to smash someone’s car/house window one day.

      You reminded me of this guy who used to put a 3x5 note card with his handwriting on it and would put it on select cars in the neighborhood saying “I buy junk cars”. Basically only on cars that didn’t look to be in the best shape.

      Way to go disrespecting people you want to do business with!

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
        5·
        8 days ago

        I’ve seen posts recently that someone is going around doing this to every cyber truck they see.

        I’m not mad at it.