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Why are all the ads that I hear for trash crap products? Weight loss
junk, gold coin crap, how to be a millionaire foolishness, and on and on and on. There are very few radio ads that I hear advertising a quality product at a fair price, simply to gain marketshare. I would honestly be interested to hear about new products, or to hear specials from companies, to hear the latest deal or sale, or anything that's a real product, quality, no rip off, no placebo pill with a takeoff on the viagra name, no hair growth system with a guarantee to get "up to 100% of your money back" (whatever that means). The few decent ads are local. Does radio just not make the decent businessperson money anymore, so radio stations have to settle for the lowest common denominator? I'm honestly curious. You'd think there would be ads for the latest Nissan truck, or Wal-Mart national radio specials, something of that sort. Perhaps they exist, but I'm a radio junkie and all I hear is crap. Please respond. Thanks! Maybe get off of the sports station? |
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On 30 May 2004 03:06:42 GMT, "Paul Jensen"
wrote: Why are all the ads that I hear for trash crap products? Weight loss junk, gold coin crap, how to be a millionaire foolishness, and on and on and on. There are very few radio ads that I hear advertising a quality product at a fair price, simply to gain marketshare. I would honestly be interested to hear about new products, or to hear specials from companies, to hear the latest deal or sale, or anything that's a real product, quality, no rip off, no placebo pill with a takeoff on the viagra name, no hair growth system with a guarantee to get "up to 100% of your money back" (whatever that means). The few decent ads are local. Does radio just not make the decent businessperson money anymore, so radio stations have to settle for the lowest common denominator? I'm honestly curious. You'd think there would be ads for the latest Nissan truck, or Wal-Mart national radio specials, something of that sort. Perhaps they exist, but I'm a radio junkie and all I hear is crap. Please respond. Thanks! Maybe get off of the sports station? I purposely didn't mention the kind of radio, just because it seems to be on all of it, but just curious, what kind of decent ads do you hear? Maybe they're just slipping past me. |
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"OIE" wrote in message ...
Maybe get off of the sports station? I purposely didn't mention the kind of radio, just because it seems to be on all of it, but just curious, what kind of decent ads do you hear? Maybe they're just slipping past me. I hear "decent" ads all the time. Whether it's national ads for places like Sears or Radio Shack, or local ads for restaurants, stores, etc., radio is full of them! Now I do spend a couple hours a day on the local sports station, and there one will hear the type of spots you mentioned, plus ads for local adult stores, plus of course "male enhancement." Some of these ads are tasteless in my opinion, but they may not be in somebody else's opinion. This is a free country and the right to discuss male enhancement goes along with the right to critisize the government. Now as for anyone stupid enough to think any of this crap would actually work, maybe they deserve to be seperated from their money. If anyone is perpatrating a fraud, then they should be prosecuted, but until such time as that happens, they have just as much right to the airwaves as Sears does. |
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It's not limited to radio. Some night, you should check out the ads on the
networks' nightly newscasts... you'll see a disproportional number of ads for patent medicines covering all kinds of gross conditions. -Steve I purposely didn't mention the kind of radio, just because it seems to be on all of it, but just curious, what kind of decent ads do you hear? Maybe they're just slipping past me. |
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