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F.O.A.D.

On 8/2/13 10:04 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:50:13 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/2/13 7:17 PM, wrote:

Did you believe your ads were going to coax someone into buying your
product who might not have if they didn't see the ad?
That was the point.

That was your point. Mine was that we didn't sell harmful crap such as
cigs, boozes, unhealthy food.

Nobody said you personally. Perhaps you didn't sell those products
because you had a moral problem or maybe they just never made you the
right offer.
It still does not change my original statement that advertising and
lawyers are not doing us any good. They simply raise the price of
everything.

For common items, advertising increases the volume sold and in the good
old days, that meant lower prices. These are the days of the perpetual
corporate rip-off, so who really knows.

The several agencies I worked for had some standards against what the
owners believed were harmful products, although one of them was
interested in representing a winery.

I still remember the "research" I did for a car dealer who didn't want
to pay for research on which local radio stations to include in the ad
buys. I got him to have his service writers turn on the car radios of
customers bringing their cars in and note the stations to which the
devices were tuned. That was a fun account, a successful dealership that
had two locations and handled Mercedes and...gulp...FIAT.