Axel
02-07-2000, 06:56 AM
Just a Monday Morning RANT!!$%^&&%#$ concerning advertising -
I have spent a FORTUNE$$$ on my own collection of CD's, VHS tapes, cable, and DVD's to escape ads!! - My daughter's Disney video's get copied at home to chop off the 8 to 12 minutes of **** they insert at the beginning. ( I already own most of what's advertised in the clips anyway )
My car radio even has a mute button on the steering wheel to tune out the 99.8% of ads I couldn't care less about!!!
I don't want to lease a car, refinance my house or credit card debit (which I don't have). I'm not in need of foundation repair or a new matress. I don't want a new telephone company. I will NEVER do business with MCI as their ads annoy me through the mail, in E-mail, on TV, and on the radio.
I had to threaten AMEX credit card co TWICE to stop their junk mail AFTER I closed my personal account.
I REFUSE to take the local paper, in part for the EXTREMELY bad service and in part for the 65% ad content I, again, couldn't care less about.
Even the FUNNIEST ad becomes stupid after the third time through.
Yet you still can't escape them - bill-boards, leaf-lets on my car, an ad on EVERY oversized piece of packaging....!!!!!
I lodge my PROTEST!! here among my friends and comrades - Those of you with contacts in the marketing dept. of ANY company - please feel free to forward this link.
My efforts are not to listen when a mute button is in reach and not to buy ANYTHING from an advertiser who annoys me repeatedly.
And, even though it supports the fine people at SYSOPT who allow us this space - it includes the banner ads you can't escape in cyberspace. I'd rather contribute a monthly access fee than have to deal with these ads. ( same as I do for my ISP, if only they'd stop selling their mailing lists )
For those of you who recommend the numerous services that claim to distribute lists of "do not contact" info, done that - the junk mail still floods in. I never respond to spam, so that ain't it.
I wish there was some way of dis-allowing ANY advertiser access to any in-bound electronic media and snail-mail.
I subscribe to Consumer Reports - any purchase over $500 is researched there - if they aren't of a quality to make it into that publication, don't bother wasting my time with an AD.
I have spent a FORTUNE$$$ on my own collection of CD's, VHS tapes, cable, and DVD's to escape ads!! - My daughter's Disney video's get copied at home to chop off the 8 to 12 minutes of **** they insert at the beginning. ( I already own most of what's advertised in the clips anyway )
My car radio even has a mute button on the steering wheel to tune out the 99.8% of ads I couldn't care less about!!!
I don't want to lease a car, refinance my house or credit card debit (which I don't have). I'm not in need of foundation repair or a new matress. I don't want a new telephone company. I will NEVER do business with MCI as their ads annoy me through the mail, in E-mail, on TV, and on the radio.
I had to threaten AMEX credit card co TWICE to stop their junk mail AFTER I closed my personal account.
I REFUSE to take the local paper, in part for the EXTREMELY bad service and in part for the 65% ad content I, again, couldn't care less about.
Even the FUNNIEST ad becomes stupid after the third time through.
Yet you still can't escape them - bill-boards, leaf-lets on my car, an ad on EVERY oversized piece of packaging....!!!!!
I lodge my PROTEST!! here among my friends and comrades - Those of you with contacts in the marketing dept. of ANY company - please feel free to forward this link.
My efforts are not to listen when a mute button is in reach and not to buy ANYTHING from an advertiser who annoys me repeatedly.
And, even though it supports the fine people at SYSOPT who allow us this space - it includes the banner ads you can't escape in cyberspace. I'd rather contribute a monthly access fee than have to deal with these ads. ( same as I do for my ISP, if only they'd stop selling their mailing lists )
For those of you who recommend the numerous services that claim to distribute lists of "do not contact" info, done that - the junk mail still floods in. I never respond to spam, so that ain't it.
I wish there was some way of dis-allowing ANY advertiser access to any in-bound electronic media and snail-mail.
I subscribe to Consumer Reports - any purchase over $500 is researched there - if they aren't of a quality to make it into that publication, don't bother wasting my time with an AD.