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PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a difficult time buying anything from a supplier that allows women to put rumples in the hood of a VW. If they have no respect for the car why would I buy their products?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey!

I'm a straight Guy...... Ads like that make me pause, look, and evaluate what they are selling and then move on.

Yes, they got my attention but if it isn't something I want or a good price...... She could come to my house naked and I'm not buying anything.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would almost...ALMOST...say that ads with women in them make me not buy whatever is advertised. It does make me look briefly but to me, its a form of torture so I quickly move on. The same reason I don't frequent Hooters and the like. Torture. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a hard enough time keeping up with the automatic email advertisements.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chickskin NEVER sells a car part for me. I never shop for the two in the same place.

I never crave young American when shopping for vintage German.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An attractive woman eating Carl's Jr. doesnt change the fact that their food is garbage. Fluff in advertising usually has no basis in reality and so it doesnt really affect how I purchase things.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An attractive woman eating Carl's Jr. doesnt change the fact that their food is garbage. True

Fluff in advertising usually has no basis in reality..... True

....so it doesnt really affect how I purchase things. False
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Malokin Martin wrote:
An attractive woman eating Carl's Jr. doesnt change the fact that their food is garbage. True

Fluff in advertising usually has no basis in reality..... True

....so it doesnt really affect how I purchase things. False


Well if thats so, would you care to enlighten me?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's nearly the definition of advertising. We're not special individual creatures. You, me, everyone is hard wired at a basic level to associate positively with the certain thing they're selling through design. There's a whole branch of psychology dedicated to tricking us into purchasing. Fluff works. Even if the food is crap. Sure there's variability in what may work for you, but I gauarantee "fluff" of one type or another got you (and me) to buy.

Does sex sell? Heck yeah. Does the awkward half dressed lady holding a bit of metal sell better? Probably.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
Ads make you look... not necessarily shop.

I'll admit... the samba feature,......ad made me look...which is 100% what it is meant to do.....but T&A have no bearing on what car parts I buy...

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^ or services I'd use.


Hahha.. Bump.

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Got my attention.. and made me look. Wink


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
VOLKSWAGNUT wrote:
Ads make you look... not necessarily shop.

I'll admit... the samba feature,......ad made me look...which is 100% what it is meant to do.....but T&A have no bearing on what car parts I buy...

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^ or services I'd use.


Hahha.. Bump.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1818890

Got my attention.. and made me look. Wink


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For $1.35 that should be in the "Good Deals" thread! Razz
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 5:22 am    Post subject: Re: Do ads make you shop? Reply with quote

jpjohns wrote:
Saw this ad today in on the front page and was wondering if people buy VW parts based on ads? Just curious. Laughing


I buy VW parts based on ads. I even compare The Samba ads for the same item excluding the price. I think, "which guy is going to send me the part, as described, and in a timely manner." - Feedback helps with this..

When I was younger, I used to ask nearly the same question you asked and everyone said they are not influenced by ads. As I aged, I figured out the companies wouldnt repeatedly waste millions of dollars if it didn't work. I don't waste 5 bucks, do you? I think the book "Made to Stick", mentioned that half the ad dollars are wasted - they just don't know which half. Read it:

http://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287

Over the years, I have been back and forth on the topic of "exploitation or disrespecting / objectifying women" too. In honesty, I like half or as naked as they can get women in ads. (even though I will be sitting in church tomorrow). Hey, at least I not lying to myself (that I know of...)

What if it was my mom, wife, or daughter? I' m like, just like folks say college is not for everyone, I say staying fully dressed is not for everyone.

I might be hesitant to buy from an individual that is the type to place a girl in the ad but I will read it - Guaranteed! I will buy from an established company that uses girls in ads because for the most part that style of advertising is so commonplace that it is hardly noticed.

Rambling, This will be funny if It makes no sense later....ha.

I agree with this:
Malokin Martin wrote:
That's nearly the definition of advertising. We're not special individual creatures. You, me, everyone is hard wired at a basic level to associate positively with the certain thing they're selling through design. There's a whole branch of psychology dedicated to tricking us into purchasing. Fluff works. Even if the food is crap. Sure there's variability in what may work for you, but I gauarantee "fluff" of one type or another got you (and me) to buy.

Does sex sell? Heck yeah. Does the awkward half dressed lady holding a bit of metal sell better? Probably.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Do ads make you shop? Reply with quote

many years ago I bought a new car, and they sails woman said it had sexey fenders....... yes I had to register it, but not on the sexeyfender site Wink boy did she work me. Shocked or rather the other way around as it was new and over a year old with less than 20 miles.most were verts and this wasent and in fl so...it got shuffeled to the back of the humongus lot.till I spoted it.(it washed off) Rolling Eyes

a few years lator I bought another new car.....it had sexey wheels.. go figure
I have bought entirely too many new cars.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 7:45 am    Post subject: Re: Do ads make you shop? Reply with quote

That is without doubt one of the most unflattering adds I have seen. I had not even seen the add until I opened this topic. Would THAT add make me shop? Definitely NO. And just to clarify, the poor girl is not bad looking. IMO everything that you could do wrong in an add was utilized there.
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