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Subject: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: Secret_Squirrell on 03/26/04 at 01:30 p.m.

Isn't it strange that consumers will pay to advertise a commercial product?

Such as those stupid looking stickers people insist on placing on their windshields for various stereo or skate boarding companies... (how about those "ThermoNuclear Protection" stickers from the late 80's, or those asian symbols).

???

Just find it strange, that's all (and tacky looking in my opinion).  :P

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/26/04 at 02:01 p.m.

I always wondered the same thing.

Story 1
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Once I ordered a new car, and told the dealer, in writing on the order slip, that I absolutely did NOT want any "Dealer stickers" or "Dealer license plates" on my car, since I was not going to be a rolling billboard for them.

Well, when the car came in, I went to the dealership and sure enough, they had one of those license-plate holders on it.

I came back in and told the salesman to take it off, or else I would not be buying the car.  He said "We HAVE to have that on the car... Dealer Policy!"

I told him "Fine, MY policy is to not advertise for you.  See you later, I have to go shop for a new car !".  He quickly went outside and removed that plate holder, and we then closed the deal.

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I used to work at a plant where one of the executives was a golf fan, and he always liked to wear shirts with the Greg Norman "shark logo" on them.

I asked him "Why do you wear clothes with another man's symbol on them?  Is that supposed to mean something, like you are related to him?"  I never saw him wear those shirts again.

Heh heh...   ;D

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: Tv on 03/26/04 at 04:19 p.m.


Quoting:
I always wondered the same thing.

Story 1
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Once I ordered a new car, and told the dealer, in writing on the order slip, that I absolutely did NOT want any "Dealer stickers" or "Dealer license plates" on my car, since I was not going to be a rolling billboard for them.

Well, when the car came in, I went to the dealership and sure enough, they had one of those license-plate holders on it.

I came back in and told the salesman to take it off, or else I would not be buying the car.  He said "We HAVE to have that on the car... Dealer Policy!"

I told him "Fine, MY policy is to not advertise for you.  See you later, I have to go shop for a new car !".  He quickly went outside and removed that plate holder, and we then closed the deal.

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Part 2
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I used to work at a plant where one of the executives was a golf fan, and he always liked to wear shirts with the Greg Norman "shark logo" on them.

I asked him "Why do you wear clothes with another man's symbol on them?  Is that supposed to mean something, like you are related to him?"  I never saw him wear those shirts again.

Heh heh...   ;D

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I don't care they can slap the dealer advertisement on. I have other things to worry about. On my last car I had like a little emblem on the car of the dealer I purchased the car from. The emblem fell off in the car wash or something.

The only thing I hate like about the emblem thing is like if somebody wears a shirt that says Tommy Hilfigger on it. Its like you paid all that money for that emblem on your shirt. Its like a shirt is a shirt no matter what emblem is on it.

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: QueenAmenRa on 03/26/04 at 04:34 p.m.


Quoting:

The only thing I hate like about the emblem thing is like if somebody wears a shirt that says Tommy Hilfigger on it. Its like you paid all that money for that emblem on your shirt. Its like a shirt is a shirt no matter what emblem is on it.
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That's exactly why I don't buy Tommy Hilfigger, Lucky, or Ralph Lauren....stupid prep brands!!!   >:(

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: LyricBoy on 03/26/04 at 06:04 p.m.


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That's exactly why I don't buy Tommy Hilfigger, Lucky, or Ralph Lauren....stupid prep brands!!!   >:(
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Remember when the "alligator logo" was all the rage in the 80's ?  :D

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/26/04 at 08:56 p.m.


Quoting:

I told him "Fine, MY policy is to not advertise for you.  See you later, I have to go shop for a new car !".  He quickly went outside and removed that plate holder, and we then closed the deal.End Quote


LOL! It's nice to have a leg up on those guys.  Money talks when you're on commission!  Did you ever see Fargo, with William H. Macey as "Jerry Lundergaard," the sleazy car dealer?  "Oh, he's never done dat before, he  says I can take a hundred dollard off dat Tru-Coat."
"It's always the same with you people, it's always MORE....You LIED to me, mister.  You're a dirty liar, a...a f**king liar! Oh, just give me my check book, and let's get this over with."

I started resenting brand names in Junior High.  If your jeans didn't say "Gap," if your sneakers didn't say "Nike" (or some other status brand), you were a DORK!  You were subject to catcalls like, "Where'd you get your sneakers? K-MART!"  That was particularly grating in the R-less Massachusetts accent.  I got that a lot until I got my own job, my own money, and my cheapskate stepmom no longer shopped for me!

Of course, now I don't give rip.  I'm wearing Tommy Hilfiger socks right now only because I got 'em cheap at Marshall's discount store, and my sneakers are some geeky no-name brand.  They last just as long as Nikes or New Balance for half the price.  They're probably made in the same Vietnamese sweatshop, too!

I thought Run D-MC and the rest of the hip-hop community was particularly pernicious to poor inner city kids with their "My Adidas" jive.  The whole urban fashion was sooooo status symbol oriented.  You had kids getting their sneakers and jackets stolen at gunpoint, and kids lifting Mercedes Benz  hood ornaments to wear around their necks.  Oh please!

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: Secret_Squirrell on 04/05/04 at 06:38 p.m.

Heehee! I remember all that.  I too had the same problem in high school during the 80's.  I remember some girls who laughed at my no-name brand sneakers.  I looked at them as if they just dropped in on planet Earth and said, so what? why the he!! would I want to dress like you?  ;D  That was the one brief time I had the last word.  :D

Yeah, it's interesting to watch as new manufactured "fads" emerge and the flock of sheep that follow and chastise others for not being the same while hypocritically crying that they are individuals.  :P  Go figure, eh?

I think that's why I like the car that I drive.  You don't see them anymore and it isn't a Honda (thanks Fast& Furious  :P).

By the way, all this "in" style clothing/paraphanelia (aka: manufactured fads) kind of reminds me of a different form of "Wag the Dog".  Instead of war, it's merchandise.  We truly are a stupid society.  Ugh...

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: NullandVoid on 04/07/04 at 11:22 a.m.


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I thought Run D-MC and the rest of the hip-hop community was particularly pernicious to poor inner city kids with their "My Adidas" jive.  The whole urban fashion was sooooo status symbol oriented.  You had kids getting their sneakers and jackets stolen at gunpoint, and kids lifting Mercedes Benz  hood ornaments to wear around their necks.  Oh please!

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Just to add on to on what you said, One thing I noticed while being an Apartment inspector for NYC Housing. A majority of these houses would have dingy furniture, old TV's  basically a shoddy appearance. Sometimes there wouldn't even be that much food in the fridge. HOWEVER when I would go to check their closets much to my amazement they would be full of Timberland/Jordan boxes and/or Echo,enyce,fubu clothes. I mean what's up with people's priorities??? How can you possible live in a crappy house but you have beautiful and ridiculously expensive clothes. That's so pathetic.

SOME not all of the people I know for a fact have illegal ways of making money and they spend it on clothes/car/drugs but they ain't got no food in their house!

I just don't get it man... :P

Subject: Re: Isn't It Strange...

Written By: 1992thousand on 04/07/04 at 02:38 p.m.

considering you can get most of those name brand shirts for under 20 bucks, i don't see the big fuss over wearing their stuff. If people are going out of their way to pay 35 bucks just for a copycat shirt with a name on it when theres one w/o the name for 20, then yea, that is really stupid.

on that note, my senior year i got a pair of cheap B.U.M. sneakers....and thats what i got called for the majority of the first semester by some people in my English Class. the BUM. So see, name brands don't always make you cool.