Have you ever seen worse marketing?

theitking

Sorry to drop a serious tone into AH buuuuut......

On the Luas thismorning I spotted this advert in a free and widely available magazine and it just struck me as plain wrong.

I dont know if the photo is doctored or not but even if it was I think it's really insensitive for anyone who had the misfortune to suffer any physical deformities.

I've removed the company name and prices from the image to avoid any problems and so they dont get any free publicity.

Designer should be shot. What ya reckon?

Mod's move if ya feel this is suited better to a different thread.

thebman

lol, that really is god awful. Can't believe that got the okay to go out TBH. Not very PC for a company selling Pc's :P

funk-you

Jesus, being ugly must pay well.

-Funk

Wagon

*loads gun*

that's a terrible deal

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Mslug

Ahahaha. WOW.

Whats next? Pictures of the concentration camp ovens with the tag line "More bargains for us I suppose..."

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Jesus....that is terrible! :eek:

BaconZombie

Ah,

Remove the logo but leave the Email address, address and phone number....

theitking wrote: »

I've removed the company name for the image to avoid any problems.

If you want to share you disgust I've posted it to Digg.

dr.bollocko

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Ah,

Remove the logo but leave the Email address, address and phone number....

I just noticed that too and was about to hop sarcatically in to indicate that but you got there first.
Damn if I hadnt gotten that haircut yesterday I wouldnt look so foolish now.

theitking

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Ah,

Remove the logo but leave the Email address, address and phone number....

Just noticed that there too...
Shhhhhhhhhhhh.... It's Monday!
Fixed it now anyway lol

Most than anything else the last thing I'd want is them getting some free adverising.
Maybe remove the prices too lol

anonymous_joe

Ignoring all the marketing I've studied...

That's just morally f*cking wrong. That's truly awful. You'd want to weep.

dr.bollocko

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Ignoring all the marketing I've studied...

That's just morally f*cking wrong. That's truly awful. You'd want to weep.

Is that because morality and marketing are mutually exclusive?

anonymous_joe

Nah, because it's a **** ad on its own.

dr.bollocko

No. Its definitely because marketing and morality are mutually exclusive.

Cool_CM

Somebody posted a funny one not too long ago, an article about the moral ethics of diamond mining or something along those lines, concentrating their criticism on a particular company. To the left of the article at the bottom of the page there was an ad for the same company, I found it funny but couldn't find the link

Mossy Monk

Why remove the company name?

kwestfan08

WOW!!. Very few things shock me these days but jesus that ad is terrible.

ronnie3585

kwestfan08 wrote: »

WOW!!. Very few things shock me these days but jesus that ad is terrible.

Same as, it takes a lot to shock me and I consider myself a most un-PC peron but fook me that's bad taste. Maybe you can joke about that with your friends but in today's society you cannot post that kind of material as a general advertisment!

Wait until his moral holiness The Most Reverend Ray D'Arcy (genuflect) gets a hold of this:pac:

Also, I don't understand why the name of the offending Company has been blanked?

Terry

It's no National Dairy Council of FÁS ad. That's for sure.

Sundy

Having to remove the company name and prices to post it here is just as stupid as the ad

Anti

the term "eat an apple through a letterbox comes to mind"

thebman

Cool_CM wrote: »

Somebody posted a funny one not too long ago, an article about the moral ethics of diamond mining or something along those lines, concentrating their criticism on a particular company. To the left of the article at the bottom of the page there was an ad for the same company, I found it funny but couldn't find the link

Well for one thing it promotes the company the ad is for if their name is on it.

That's what the point of the ad was to shock people and then you see the name and remember. Better to see it without the name TBH because some people might actually buy the products after seeing the ad then because you know some people are just that stupid.

Me, I'd just not buy anything from the company ever again. It would go on my list of companies I won't purchase from.

Steve_o

Holy Jaysus, thats awful!!!!

JIZZLORD

what a bizarre ad.

theitking

The only reason I blanked the company name was incase it infringed on any of Boards.ie rules.

If a mod gives the okay i'll be more than happy to post the original ad with the name of the company..... Name and Shame I say :cool:

Duff

Thats one f*cking creepy looking child!

Sherifu

What has been seen cannot be unseen. What idiots thought that was a good idea. *boggle*

Duggy747

EURGH!!! DEMON-SPAWN!!!

Seriously, that's what your arse looks like when you slap it too much.

anniehoo

Seriously wtf? I too am unshockable by alot of things..but COME ON!!!! I really want to know what company this is too?

Terry

theitking wrote: »

The only reason I blanked the company name was incase it infringed on any of Boards.ie rules.

If a mod gives the okay i'll be more than happy to post the original ad with the name of the company..... Name and Shame I say :cool:

PM me the original ad and I'll check it out.

AoifeN

The ad has been discussed here already, and there's been a reply from somebody from the shop

http://www.lecraic.com/2008/07/06/the-laptop-shop-badvertising/

Fighting Irish

haha i love that, i'm sick of all the usual cheesy sh1t

r3nu4l

AoifeN wrote: »

The ad has been discussed here already, and there's been a reply from somebody from the shop

http://www.lecraic.com/2008/07/06/the-laptop-shop-badvertising/

lecraic wrote:

The version of the ad that was used in the Sunday Business Post was sent by me and was not approved by the laptop shop.I apologise to the laptop shop for the error. The correct ad was used in the Ingear section of The Sunday Times.

The images used are manipulated stock and can be viewed here along with a description of the copy - http://www.flickr.com/photos/28355011@N03/

The images used do not represent any person living or dead and if they do I regret any distress caused

Again my apologies to the laptop shop for any embarrassment caused.
Fergus O’Neill

UPDATE Monday 7th July @ 4.15pm : Robert from the Laptop Shop has left a comment on this post. An unfortunate set of circumstances resulted in the ad going to print and Robert apologises for the offence caused. Read down through the comments below for the full detail. Thanks for clarifying the situation Robert.

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Right, sure, yeah! The wrong version was inadvertently published by the Sunday Business Post and then again inadvertently published in this magazine as seen on the LUAS. Yeah, I believe ya Robert but thousands wouldn't.

Pretty shocking ad tbh. Great for lolocaust but not so good for that company. Making a mistake once is forgivable, to allow the same 'mistake' occur a second time is not.

Here's hoping Robert comes here to explain himself to the masses/mob. Until then, grab the pitchforks and burning torches! :pac:

EDIT: A fuller explanation:

Robert Brennan wrote:

I own The Laptop Shop so I am ultimately responsible for the ad content. This ad was presented to me by my advertising agency and I didn’t pass it on the basis that I thought it would cause offense. They changed the picture to the same girl with just a sad face which is what I intended… an ad that made a play of the fact that everyones so down about the economy and climate at the moment. The ad that was supposed to run appeared in the Sunday Times on the same day (home section pg22). Unfortunately, due to the fact that The Business Post rang with a last minute deal with literally an hour to production we were under pressure. The person I deal with in the advertising agency wasn’t there and asked someone else to forward on the ad. Unfortunately it was the previous draft that I hadn’t approved and I didn’t actually discover this till I saw the ads in print. I understand most people will think this is a lame excuse but thats what happened. We are a small business and sometimes don’t have the systems or time available to vet things properly. I can only apologise that this mistake caused offense but the fact that a different ad… the correct one was run on the same day in a different paper will hopefully convince people that the advert and the offense was unintentional. The Sunday Times ad is the one which should have gone out. We have obviously learned a lot from the negative reaction.

Seems more plausible but he needs to sack the ad agency. Either way the ASAI will have a nice juicy fine for him I'm sure. If the ad agancy are at fault I'm sure they'll cough up...

BaconZombie

Look like the UK are getting some very bad marketing ideas as well.....

An advertising world first has been launched in London - pitvertising. Ananova reports.

"The innovative new concept uses digital TV screens built into the armpits of shirts.

It was developed by deodorant manufacturer Right Guard as the ideal way to market its products.

A hired team of 'Pitvertisers' was sent out into the streets of London to test the new medium."

http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2008/07/020797.htm

Our man in Havana

r3nu4l wrote: »

Either way the ASAI will have a nice juicy fine for him I'm sure. If the ad agency are at fault I'm sure they'll cough up...

The ASAI have never fined any advertiser or ad agency. If they did Ryanair would stop advertising completely.

xOxSinéadxOx

am i the only one who doesn't get the ad?:o

thelordofcheese

Fantastic ad.

I'd buy from them.

r3nu4l

Bond-007 wrote: »

The ASAI have never fined any advertiser or ad agency. If they did Ryanair would stop advertising completely.

A dog with no teeth huh? How unsurprising :rolleyes:

AckwelFoley

Whats the problem here?

Shes sad cause shes ugly?

We cant laugh at uglies anymore?

What next? we wont be able to laugh at the special olympics next.

This is why we need to VOTE NO to Lisbon again. :mad:

phantom_lord

i don't see the problem with it?

pirelli

That's scandalous. They have probably messed about with it on their computer, If I was a computer manufacturer or chip maker i wouldn't want them to portray such a callous attitude while advertising my product. That's not to say they are any better, just that they can become very caring and sensitive when it comes to marketing their company image.
The human is now just another exploitable object, the existence of which is now unknown.


















bastards.