Companies to avoid for "reasons". Confine hate postin' here

[crochambeau]

Still working out the kinks of coordinate re-appearance in this time line though.

Phew.... conspiracy theorists I can deal with a lot easier than misogynists.

Agreed.

Though the tin hat crowd loves to wallow in politics at all the wrong times, so it doesn't hurt to smash the mute button on them as well.

(goes back into hiding, after cutting the orange wire on a misbehaving ring mod)

[WORMDIRT]

2) I love good tubes and nice tiddies, but I'm no fan of marketing departments and the pandering, manipulative, suggestive imagery [they] callously offer up and obnoxiously push in my face.

It's kinda insulting as a male guitar/tube amp player. Although I do have the eurotubes pinup riding a kt88 shirt...

[$harkToootth]

Still working out the kinks of coordinate re-appearance in this time line though.

[01010111]

What do you think the going rate is for professional protestors? If the price is right, I might be willing to offer my services. Or, if the price is right, I could stage my own protest to bring back the McRib.

[Chankgeez]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/mcdonal ... riots.html

[Ugly Nora]

What is surprising is that companies are still running ads like that in this day and age.

It's cause musical instrument companies think women are only like 12% of the market, but as fender found out when they actually did real market research we're actually 50% shock of shocks.

and cause you know, the country is owned by wretched old white dudes who don't care if they're sexist or not cause they already have your money and your rights.

Maybe they are doing it for far less nefarious reasons, like it sells gear? You don't think a company is smart enough to know which of their ads generate the most sales? Music companies exist to make money, not to be champions of the liberal PC agenda..

Uh huh, so why is Gibson $1 billion dollars in debt and the New york Times thinks the industry is bad enough that they're calling it the death of the guitar? Dwarfcraft through PRemier Guitar, She Shreds and anyone with a brain realizes this shit isn't working anymore cause they're neglecting the other half of the market. The car industry learned it the hard way too.

The people who cling to this marketing are either evil or stupid. It's statistically not working anymore.

Also don't call me a liberal, I'm a socialist, not a wimpy "Regulated capitalism" doofus.

I had a bunch more to say, but honestly I am trying to be a nicer person, and I have better things to do right now than argue with internet weirdos (not you specifically -- ILF in general). So I will sum it up like this:

1. I never called you a liberal. Don't twist someone's words to fit your narrative.

2. Music companies (and most companies) exist to make money. They don't exist to push social agenda's (whatever their politics may be). So don't expect their actions in pursuit of money to always be in line with your preferred politics.

a. Companies that don't adapt to changing demograpics and social mores will suffer.

b. Companies know how effective their adverstising is or isn't. If they use sex, for example, and it is not working, and they don't adapt, that is called bad management. It doesn't mean there is some big conspiracy to keep a certain section of the population under their thumb.

3. For the record, I personally don't respond to sex in advertising either. I personally find it insulting, but not offensive. I find it insulting that a company would try to persuade me with such a lowest common denominator tactic. I feel I am smarter than that and prefer to be stimulated intellectually.

[$harkToootth]

I finally found the elusive Primo Hoagie Girls. Image is too large and I'm not resizing so http://i.imgur.com/4r5yDJ9.jpg

[Chankgeez]

[$harkToootth]

DUDE!!! The first time I saw that shit was at the location in Fishtown!!! During Hurricane Irene! I went and got a hoagie and saw a bunch of girls posing with hoagies.

I probably wasn't exactly sober at the time but I still remember being like " ...Wut?" I might have to make the pilgrimage to see if it is still there.

[Iommic Pope]

It’s not even an ad for anything.
Why would anyone do that?
“What’s your pitch, Barry? That hoagie account needs landing in an hour!”
“Tits.”
“Fuck it. That’ll do.”

[$harkToootth]

Omg exactly Pope. It's so fucking jarring

[$harkToootth]

"C'mon guys...I got a coupon for Primo. We're gunna go. We're gunna get some salami and then we're going to get all the ladies. Cause the chicks...the chicks love hoagies. Everybody knows this. You gotta be smart on the streets. Know all the rules. And this...this is the first rule."

[Chankgeez]

It’s not even an ad for anything.
Why would anyone do that?
“What’s your pitch, Barry? That hoagie account needs landing in an hour!”
“Tits.”
“Fuck it. That’ll do.”

The most frightening part of this is that you think it was created by an ad agency.

[rickenbastard]

I think the most offensive thing about that ad is that the whole point is “perfect pair” yet it only shows one tube in the pic. If you’re gonna have 2 tits also have 2 tubes to match. I’m also far from the demographic of the sex sells tactic though. I’d be more responsive if it was Matt Pike.

[John Matrix]

3. For the record, I personally don't respond to sex in advertising either. I personally find it insulting, but not offensive. I find it insulting that a company would try to persuade me with such a lowest common denominator tactic. I feel I am smarter than that and prefer to be stimulated intellectually.

For real. Also just screams "out of touch." I wouldn't avoid a company that I already liked just cuz they had tacky ads but no one is going to draw in new customers doing that shit.