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Marketing buzzwords that raise the hackles.

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Created by GreenPat > 9 months ago, 1 Sep 2009
GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
5 Sep 2009 3:15PM
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Yep thats the one, Trade connect beep beep beep beep...

busterwa
3777 posts
5 Sep 2009 5:33PM
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Herry
130 posts
7 Sep 2009 11:05AM
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Used to listen to Nova 96.9 on the way home from work. Everytime they'd do the traffic report they'd use the sound of a car horn. Every damn day I used to jump and see who was beeping me.

getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
7 Sep 2009 11:28AM
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Herry said...

Used to listen to Nova 96.9 on the way home from work. Everytime they'd do the traffic report they'd use the sound of a car horn. Every damn day I used to jump and see who was beeping me.


Nah - that was me ya kn slow coach!

Cal
QLD, 1003 posts
7 Sep 2009 1:30PM
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Herry said...

Used to listen to Nova 96.9 on the way home from work. Everytime they'd do the traffic report they'd use the sound of a car horn. Every damn day I used to jump and see who was beeping me.


Yep, and even worse is when they use sirens. It should be illegal to use sirens except for emergency applications. I know of at least one person who did not pull over when an ambulance was right up thier bung hole. Their excuse; 'oh, I thought the siren was on the radio.' Not sure why they didnt see it in their mirrors, but the point is still valid.

getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
9 Sep 2009 10:36AM
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Love to see a siren inserted in Kyle Sandilands sphinny.

Every time the whiney littel biatch opens his trap it is like an air raid happening anyhoo.

Agree - putting sirens on air is stoopid (spesh in peak hour).

Advice is to complain to the ACMA. They are fek all good at stopping 'payolla' and cash for comments but would likely take this situation seriously. Also good is to email the staion saying 'goodbye' until it ceases.

www.acma.gov.au/

knigit
WA, 319 posts
9 Sep 2009 1:11PM
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" You are going to die..., and your relatives are going to be broke!"

Not the exact buzzwords they use, but close enough. The funeral insurance adds on morning tv that switch between trying to scare you and guilt trip you into buying it for the sake of your soon to be bereaved relies really p1ss me off.

The grateful, but still grieving widow testimonials are truly shameless and soooo badly acted. WTF!

Now don't forget - " There's also the coffin price, the funeral directors fee,...."

evlPanda
NSW, 9202 posts
9 Sep 2009 5:43PM
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easty said...

harvey norman
why so loud?


Harvey: "In this GFC if you aren't buying Australian why? Why not?"

Because the G stands for Global (you dip****). And as if even 10% of your stuff isn't imported.

I'm writing this as if he can hear me. Very sad.

evlPanda
NSW, 9202 posts
9 Sep 2009 5:43PM
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Free *









* not actually free

cisco
QLD, 12345 posts
10 Sep 2009 4:36AM
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The marketing hype might be annoying but do not forget that in the free enterprise system, until something gets sold, nothing else happens.

Think about it before you react.

R0CKHOPPER
WA, 12 posts
10 Sep 2009 11:03AM
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Those advertising signs that have "50% OFF!" written in huge letters with a microscopic " up to " at the very top.

Those adverts and signs that offer " Unbelievable deals!!" and sometimes even have me looking twice thinking , that cant be right. And its not. The little * at the end says it all. down the bottom is a whole bunch of writing ( terms and conditions) that you need a telescope to read.

Last one - Telstra- They need a whole half a page on thier catalouges to cover their dodgy, non comprehendable, apparently free, apart from the $99 start up cost and if you do anything we dont condone your up for a $999 fee.

brad1
QLD, 232 posts
12 Sep 2009 4:49PM
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The over use of the word "Journey". eewww I cringe just typing the word

Haircut
QLD, 6481 posts
12 Sep 2009 6:02PM
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Pro Edition.................aaaaarrrrggggghhh!!!

Mobydisc
NSW, 9029 posts
12 Sep 2009 6:17PM
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Limited Edition.

Perhaps limited to how many can be sold?

Pheebobafet
NSW, 124 posts
12 Sep 2009 8:43PM
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Save Save Save in a load voice.

No one has yet been able to show me how to save by spending on future land fill.

NotWal
QLD, 7428 posts
13 Sep 2009 2:14PM
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cisco said...

The marketing hype might be annoying but do not forget that in the free enterprise system, until something gets sold, nothing else happens.

Think about it before you react.


I've got a pile of beaut used FREE non-ORGANIC 2 and 3 litre milk bottles. GUARANTEED leak free, 100% fat free. SAVE SAVE SAVE, They are an absolute GIVE AWAY to you only Cisco as a dedicated supporter of the economy a special mates rate of not $ 3 million dollars, not $1,000 but a mere $100 if you call within the next 24 hours.

If you call within 2 minutes I will throw in Tasmania

*pile = 2. Postage and delivery by purchaser. Subject to conditions like transfer of ownership in fee simple and ownership remains vested in the crown. The purchaser agrees to having his first born will be sold into slavery to redeem a dishonoured payment.

cisco
QLD, 12345 posts
14 Sep 2009 12:32AM
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I am really enthralled by your pricing structure and discounting policy and your environmental benefits would make it seem worth while buying one of your merchandise items for the sole purpose of shoveing it up the rear end of Peter Garrett or better still Wenny Pong, but apart from that I see no personal need or benefit in the purchase of one of your secondhand or used items.

However the added value of ownership of Tasmania is really tempting. Would that mean I would be King and Chief Tasmaniac and legal to breed with whom ever I have a fancy for.[}:)]

j murray
SA, 947 posts
14 Sep 2009 11:47AM
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to breed with any tazweegen....wtf....a two headed Cisco.... to deposit manufactured goods in the rear end of our representatives garren teed wong [}:)]

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
14 Sep 2009 12:42PM
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evlPanda said...

- The term "Chemical Free"

- Any book title containing the word "Power".


Except "The Power of One"

sausage
QLD, 4873 posts
14 Sep 2009 12:45PM
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Haircut said...


Pro Edition.................aaaaarrrrggggghhh!!!


totally concur Haircut - they might as well have a "noobie edition" or "only ever going to be sailed 3 times over summer edition"

knigit
WA, 319 posts
14 Sep 2009 11:58AM
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"If you happen to find a cheaper price on a stocked item
we'll beat it by 10%" - Not to name names

= Death to the small businesses where the staff have reached puberty and actually know what they are talking about.

Pugwash
WA, 7672 posts
14 Sep 2009 10:57PM
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sigh [bunnies] /sigh

That place drives me nuts... Least it's open on Sundays...

Haircut
QLD, 6481 posts
15 Sep 2009 8:57AM
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funny how the staff tend to walk the other way when i'm looking for assistance, and mysteriously disappear

i've noticed salespeople of other stores using the phrase "we don't want you to feel like you're shopping at *******s"

MikeyS
VIC, 1506 posts
15 Sep 2009 3:07PM
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Mark _australia said...

I agree with 'organic' and 'chemical free' geez they sh!t me. All vegies are organic.... all cows are organic etc etc.
Water is a chemical

What really irks me, and in the shower too.... which is not good, is the bvllsh!tfarken ingredients on the ladies' shampoo and similar products. Aloe and peach kernel extract. Moon flower extract. Milk of all things!
Read the ingredients and they are all the same .... I guess half an avocado seed in 10,000 lites of shampoo makes a difference to the manageability of my 'fly away hair'
Women will fall for anything.
And you can't buy anything else now, it seems. I just want shampoo that cleans my hair with no ****y smell or "essence of jojoba bean and cinnamon leaf".

oh yeah and one that is extra slippery for those times i'm not angry in the shower


Yeah, and do you know what the first listed ingredient often is? "AQUA". You mean water? No, AQUA.

SAME UKKEN THING. dipsticks! Why the f do they insist in calling it AQUA, as if it's sexier, or justifies the expense.

By the way, why do they bang on about all the "natural" ingredients, when the active or useful ingredients are "organic" chemicals (benzene of course is organic, as is carbon dioxide) such as sodium laureth suphate, ammonium lauryl sulphate, dimethicone. Some of which of course are melted down animal fat (tallow) mixed with sodium hydroxide. Geez, it'd be hard to sell if you had to put too much truth in the advertising, eh.

Spotty
VIC, 1619 posts
16 Sep 2009 8:34PM
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George Carlin sums it up.... language warning...

Mark _australia
WA, 22539 posts
16 Sep 2009 6:56PM
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knigit said...

"If you happen to find a cheaper price on a stocked item
we'll beat it by 10%" - Not to name names

= Death to the small businesses where the staff have reached puberty and actually know what they are talking about.




I'll name the wa^&ers. BUNNINGS
They are useless.

There is so many things they don't have also.

Speedfile sheets (sanding sheets for a thing that looks like a hand plane, for doing auto body work) - htey'd never heard of it.

I went in and asked if they sold Vernier calipers, 6 staff had no idea. For christ sakes ppl, it is a very common engineering/mechanical or woodworking (lathe) tool. I even decribed what they look like and what they do... all said they did not stock them. 2 days later I saw a couple of them at the tool counter!

No hi tensile bolts.
Very limited metric bolts (anything patio related no probs)
Asked the girls once if she had M6 nylocs - she thought I meant her pantihose.

I can't remember the number of times I've left that place empty handed in the last 15 yrs or so. I reckon it is 50% of my visits they don't have what I need or the lack of knowledge is amazing.


Bring on Yankee hardware chains where you can buy a v8 engine, any tool in the world, or even better guns and ammo too.

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
16 Sep 2009 9:14PM
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Mark _australia said...
I'll name the wa^&ers. BUNNINGS
They are useless.

There is so many things they don't have also.

Speedfile sheets (sanding sheets for a thing that looks like a hand plane, for doing auto body work) - htey'd never heard of it.

I went in and asked if they sold Vernier calipers, 6 staff had no idea. For christ sakes ppl, it is a very common engineering/mechanical or woodworking (lathe) tool. I even decribed what they look like and what they do... all said they did not stock them. 2 days later I saw a couple of them at the tool counter!

No hi tensile bolts.
Very limited metric bolts (anything patio related no probs)
Asked the girls once if she had M6 nylocs - she thought I meant her pantihose.

I can't remember the number of times I've left that place empty handed in the last 15 yrs or so. I reckon it is 50% of my visits they don't have what I need or the lack of knowledge is amazing.


Bring on Yankee hardware chains where you can buy a v8 engine, any tool in the world, or even better guns and ammo too.


While we're bunnings bashing...careful when/if cutting their cabinets or benchtops! They use (cheap) imported flat-packed joinery made from particleboard that is not manufactured to the Aus standard of formeldehyde & toxic chemical regs (Aus is pretty strict in this respect)! They come with set-length benchtops, with an instruction sheet that says "get a local benchtop manufacturer or cabinetmaker to cut & join"...a local builder brought one in as a 'cheap' option for a rental and it made one of my employee's nose bleed, and the toxicity of the dust when routing made everyone in the workshop feel crook!

Diver
WA, 554 posts
16 Sep 2009 9:08PM
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Spotty, sums it all up really...

Executive also raises the hackles for me.

NotWal
QLD, 7428 posts
18 Sep 2009 2:38PM
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"Regular" as a size. How can a frequency be a size? Maybe it's shorthand for "If you don't know what size you want, most folks go for this one so we call it "Regular"" idk

evlPanda
NSW, 9202 posts
20 Sep 2009 4:33PM
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"Totally unique to <brand name>, DCC (Dynamic Clew Concept) brings to sail handling what 4WD, ABS and ESP combined brings to your car."

Must've been really high that night.



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