A few observations on some marketing ploys I don’t understand:
- Capital One has taken to mailing larger envelopes stuffed with bubblewrap among their you’ve-qualified-for-lots-more-credit marketing. I guess it’s supposed to make us think they’re sending us something for free. Seems like an awful waste…
- Those Visa commercials where the whole world stops and everyone, including the hussy behind the counter is annoyed because someone paid with cash. We’re going to raise up a generation of children who think that paying with cash is evil and who overwhelm themselves with debt so they’ll be cool… oh, wait… anyway, I think the message I got from this commercial is that businesses that accept Visa have clerks that look down their noses at customers…
- Spike TV and those incessant Girls Gone Wild video infomercials. On the few occasions when I get up at five AM and workout in my basement, I’d like to be able to put something interesting on the TV to keep me company. Does Spike really need to run non-stop GGW infomercials all morning? For that matter, do they need to run them at all? How about some UFC re-runs?
- Pregnancy strip commercials that show a stream of “liquid” spraying over the end of the strip while I’m eating my dinner… or at any time. I don’t think anyone needs to see that.
