I'm generally not a fan. If a company wants to look better than its competitors it's generally better to focus on its strengths than on its competitors' weaknesses; negative campaigns such as the "fear, uncertainty and doubt" approach really just have the "feel-bad factor" that doesn't exactly make me want to rush out and buy their products. "Our competition is crap! Crap, I tell you! But we might not be." How compelling.


Trimmed of fat, cooked under a hot grill and served in a sandwich with tomato ketchup.

I've always been of the opinion that if your main selling point is to bad mouth your competitors. You see this a lot in politics too, but we can't go there. Then it's unlikely you have anything interesting to say. It's why I don't post on certain other forums.

It's just business.

I fry mine in a lump of butter.

I always thought the same thing. Then there is the propaganda that tv companies buy their own time slots on commercials to put on their own ads, and a couple of the competitor's ads to make it seem like they are being open minded. for every 10 dish network commercials, i may see one DirecTV commecial, but then it gets cut off halfway through by another Dish Network commercial.

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I'm not fond of it and it sure isn't the way to sell me a product, quite the opposite, some companies lost me as a customer because of their arrogance. Be it Apple, Nvidia or whatever.

You can be in competition without using underhanded tactics.

You don't sling mud while playing football, that's just not cricket.

lol. whenever the commercials pop up, i get up and go do something else until the show comes back but in the rare cases that i do watch them, i dont get effected and in all honesty, i dont even care.


And windows 7 was my idea.

We very rarely watch TV these days due to the vast number of advert breaks, even compared to 10 years ago: even the expensive subscription channels are almost unwatchable, the only way is to record programmes in advance and fast-forward through them, though even that gets annoying.

It makes me feel old in that I can remember a time when some ads were actually really quite amusing (though admittedly most have always been dross) but you rarely seem to get that sort of thing any more, which is another reason I don't like the mud-slinging types and other nonsense that's supplanted them. Though these days it's almost wall-to-wall ambulance-chasers and boring insurance ads: funny how they say they don't have the money to spend on claims; maybe it's because they spend it all on advertising.

i mainly tape everything so i just skip the commercials.

There is a glasses company in Australia called the Optical Superstore, All of their ads are about how "These glasses are 20$ cheaper than specsavers" "Look, we have specials, won't see them at specsavers"

Recently they had an ad which said "Specsavers has attempted to take the Optical Superstore to court, we are pleased to say we won!, and can continue to tell you our prices are better than specsavers" <_<

How about telling us why you are good rather than why you are better