Hey Richard - piss off.

[Big Dave]

Well I didn't think a telecoms business could make a more annoying series of ads than the bugs wasting the most of my now every 15 minutes.

Wrong hey.

[nallac]

Yes,as much as i like the Hamster on Top Gear those ads are fukin
annoying...

[DELLORTO]

"no richard you didnt" that stupid fashion desginer can freeze to death for all i care.....:yes:

[davebullet]

Have you seen the annoying billboards of him? The photographer must have been high, whacked or buzzed because Hamster's eyes are half shut or he's not even looking where he is supposed to.

My fav. at the moment is Jeff (the robot) having a tizzie and trashing the chess set in the 2 degrees ad.

[AllanB]

The best part is that Richard was in NZ way before the network was running ..........


I like that Vodafone advert where they 'help' everyone - especially the Bendon undie gals :love:

[sil3nt]

Those Telecom ads are fkn annoying and are more likely to make me not swap over to them. They also managed to make the hampster look even smaller in the ads.

[Mom]

I am really useless at advertisements and the like. I dont watch a lot of TV and rarely have the radio on. A few years ago now I got a call from a market research company whos name escapes me for the moment asking if I had a few minutes to answer some questions. Well, I was bored eh? Sure says me.

This young girl, lets call her Michelle, began by asking the age old question..."How old are you?". Just old enough to not want to actually tell some random voice on the phone was my answer, dont you lot usually offer up age ranges? "Oh yeah, ok" and off she went offering up the options. Well we got past the first general ones and on to the reason for her call. This was to test the effectiveness of TV ad campaingn run by Telecom at the time. First question, I could not answer, you know the ones that give you a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being you loved it and so on. I dont watch TV, I have never seen the ad, says me, think you best ring someone else. No, Michelle was not to be put off at all. On, and on she went asking questions I simply could not answer.

I began to get a teeny, weeny bit pissed off to be fair, and asked how much longer she was going to waste my time for. "Oh, there are just a couple more" says Michelle. Rolling my eyes, I continued. Finally we got to the end of her questions and she thanked me for my time. I said you are welcome, put me through to your supervisor.

"What for?" asked dumb Michelle.

"Just DO IT!" yelled well wound up Mom.

I got a bloke called ummm, Justin. As in Just in time to stop me from leaping down the phone line and throttling Michelle! "What seems to be the problem?"


"Well, either that Michelle chick has worked for you far too long and simply does not give a shit about pissing people off, or she is very, very new and needs much more training before you let her loose on the general public."

The latter was the correct option.

Nothing I hate more than repetitive ads that are specifically designed to get under your skin and change your buying desicions as you hear nothing else, except for market research companies that allow stupid people to act as their face to the world.

Pisses me off too I cant remember the name of the company, it is well know and big company in NZ.

I dont know who Richard is too by the way :sunny:

EDIT: Colmar Brunton :yes:

[MisterD]

Don't get me started BD...XT is "faster" than a jet boat eh? Well I've conclusively proved that Vodafone is slower than walking, cost I sent a text to the missus in the next room and went and told her about it before it arrived...:done:

[AllanB]

Hey Richard - these dogs smell.

[Finn]

There is no argument. Both Vodafone & Telecom are both useless. Their CEO's secretly meet every second Sunday and a non disclosed location and laugh at all you dumb yapping, txting fuckers.

[Ronin]

There is no argument. Both Vodafone & Telecom are both useless. Their CEO's secretly meet every second Sunday and a non disclosed location and laugh at all you dumb yapping, txting fuckers.

The ironic thing is that they organise their meetings using email as txting is to unreliable.

[Big Dave]

There is no argument. Both Vodafone & Telecom are both useless. Their CEO's secretly meet every second Sunday and a non disclosed location and laugh at all you dumb yapping, txting fuckers.

Uninformed sources told me the other day that telco A loses 25% of their customers annually. It doesn't matter because they get 25% of Telco B's.

I wish they wouldn't big budget advertise every 15 minutes and made the services cheaper.

[want-a-harley]

Don't get me started on those fucking telecom adds. Another annoying twat on the telly is that clown on the countdown adds bleating on about sausages or some other shite. Christ he winds me up. Who the fuck is he anyway?

[Big Dave]

Don't get me started on those fucking telecom adds. Another annoying twat on the telly is that clown on the countdown adds bleating on about sausages or some other shite. Christ he winds me up. Who the fuck is he anyway?

I don't know - but when you get that Harley, you can hang out with me. :Punk:

[mynameis]

There is no argument. Both Vodafone & Telecom are both useless. Their CEO's secretly meet every second Sunday and a non disclosed location and laugh at all you dumb yapping, txting fuckers.

Coming from a hypocrite carrying the latest iPhone around, tied hands down in a contract :p eh eh :p:p

[Max Preload]

Ads like these (and I've only really caught the one with the jetboat in it's entirety, for research purposes) only serve to make me more determined not to buy as there's clearly no merit in the product or service so they're just marketing it on "It's new - buy it and be cool!" factor. Basically their approach doesn't even register on my purchasing decision matrix. Fortunately for them there are plenty of lemmings for whom it is.

[Boob Johnson]

Those Telecom ads are fkn annoying and are more likely to make me not swap over to them.
That and the SHIT load of complaints about how bad the actual network is to date.

Telescum can eat a pile of monkey nuts. The shit they have pulled over the years is more than enough for me to take all of our business away from them!

[Big Dave]

Telescum can

I have just moved all my business to them.

25% of Telco A's blah blah blah.

[Finn]

Coming from a hypocrite carrying the latest iPhone around, tied hands down in a contract :p eh eh :p:p

No contract. I bought mine outright.

[Boob Johnson]

I have just moved all my business to them.

25% of Telco A's blah blah blah.
I not so long ago moved 3 businesses & 3 residential homes away from them.

They can die horribly in a chemical fire as far as I am concerned :sunny:

[Owl]

Cheeky fuckers the lot of em!

Missus stopped in at Vodafone to ask if she could recieve and send txts while in Oz. "Yes no problem" was the reply.
Interestingly, she was bombarded with txts from Vodafone throughout our stay, at her cost of course. I think they were $1 something each.:laugh:

[BiK3RChiK]

Don't get me started BD...XT is "faster" than a jet boat eh? Well I've conclusively proved that Vodafone is slower than walking, cost I sent a text to the missus in the next room and went and told her about it before it arrived...:done:

:blink: I've sent a text to my husband from work which is an hours drive away at 7pm at night, got home at 10pm and while sitting down eating my long-awaited dinner at 10.15pm, he gets my text!:2guns::2guns:

[davebullet]

:blink: I've sent a text to my husband from work which is an hours drive away at 7pm at night, got home at 10pm and while sitting down eating my long-awaited dinner at 10.15pm, he gets my text!:2guns::2guns:

You females have to learn to send shorter messages! :2guns:

[vifferman]

Have you seen the annoying billboards of him?
Yes. <_<
They were all over the airport, including on the air bridges.
Telecoont must've spent a fortune on advertising.
If their network and services and prices were really good, they could've just used viral advertising or word of mouth.

That balrdy jet boat ad REALLY pisses me off. WTF does it prove?!?
"Look - I can take a really long time to send a picture, while a jet sprint boat blasts around in the background. And even though it's really slow, I'm still finished before the jet boat goes past". SO?!?!?
I finished typing that sentence before someone, somewhere in the world finished having breakfast/a wank/a dump/lunch/[insert other totally unrelated event here].

IF ONLY the jetboat had showered The Hamster with muddy water at the end, instead of some other guy, there would've been at least some entertainment value.
Or they could have just had the jetboat on its own.

Pointless. Annoying. Bound to make people LESS likely to sign up for XT.

[mynameis]

No contract. I bought mine outright.


Only CEO's can do that :not:



Finn for PM :lol:

[BiK3RChiK]

The thing is.... they are probably pretty happy it's annoying people enough to talk about it. Either way, it's generating interest and they've achieved something. Proof advertising works, good or bad!

[Big Dave]

The thing is.... they are probably pretty happy it's annoying people enough to talk about it. Either way, it's generating interest and they've achieved something. Proof advertising works, good or bad!

For me the Proof is in the volume of incremental business it generates, indexed against the expenditure, and whether they could do better by not alienating potential consumers with the fluff.

This campaign seems to infer I am as smart as a lettuce. Maybe that's the target market.

[Gubb]

I feel the Gubbstration rising.

[Big Dave]

I feel the Gubbstration rising.

Gubbvenge is best served cold.

[Big Dave]

While we're at it - I believe, Toyota, that I would like the fat ginga, the one with the wobbly moobs and the illegal flying fox, I would like him to careen into the pylons of his illegally constructed invasion of other people's privacy. Wobble wobble wobble - SPLAT.

Just enough to knock some sense into the fuckin' idiot. No wonder the kid is such a wimp.

[nudemetalz]

As crap as these Tele/Vodies all are, who doesn't still get a laugh at the "Mexican Doug" Instant-Kiwi ads.
They are brilliant !!

[marty]

Yes. <_<
They were all over the airport, including on the air bridges.
Telecoont must've spent a fortune on advertising.
If their network and services and prices were really good, they could've just used viral advertising or word of mouth.

That balrdy jet boat ad REALLY pisses me off. WTF does it prove?!?
"Look - I can take a really long time to send a picture, while a jet sprint boat blasts around in the background. And even though it's really slow, I'm still finished before the jet boat goes past". SO?!?!?
I finished typing that sentence before someone, somewhere in the world finished having breakfast/a wank/a dump/lunch/[insert other totally unrelated event here].

IF ONLY the jetboat had showered The Hamster with muddy water at the end, instead of some other guy, there would've been at least some entertainment value.
Or they could have just had the jetboat on its own.

Pointless. Annoying. Bound to make people LESS likely to sign up for XT.

considering the boat has been reconfigured at least 3 times in the shoot, it's a load of crap anyway. check out the position(s) of the tv cameras on the roll cage/bow/nowhere....

[Big Dave]

considering the boat has been reconfigured at least 3 times in the shoot, it's a load of crap anyway. check out the position(s) of the tv cameras on the roll cage/bow/nowhere....

Are you letting facts get in the way of the story?
Truth in advertising doesn't apply to things that aren't true.
They are only simulations for illustration purposes.

[want-a-harley]

Another person that winds me up is that mouthy cow on the westpac add. The one that moans about her boyfriends/husbands, ex-flatmates and then says she's the best thing that happened to him.

Hope for his sake their actors.

[Donor]

I'd be happy to take the designer bird for a ride... I mean a ride out to Port Waikato to see how fanbloodytastic the XT coverage is there. It's bloody not!

Another ad that sticks in my craw, that toothy tart from Kiwibank - entirely over dressed in all the ads!

:2guns:

[Big Dave]

I like this thread because you can dump on things that it 100% doesn't matter if they get dumped on.

[cs363]

Someone (BD?) should send a copy of the ads to Top Gear so that Clarkson can mercilessly take the piss out of Hammond for making them..... :D

[Big Dave]

Someone (BD?) should send a copy of the ads to Top Gear so that Clarkson can mercilessly take the piss out of Hammond for making them..... :D


Nah not me - I'm not a top gear enthusiast. I've borrowed their ideas - with due credit, but it's aboot cars and I'm not.

[cs363]

Nah not me - I'm not a top gear enthusiast. I've borrowed their ideas - with due credit, but it's aboot cars and I'm not.

But you do like a shit stir don't you??? :shifty:

Hmmm, ok...well maybe it's a job for me then....

[Big Dave]

But you do like a shit stir don't you???
.

All sweetness and light - I didn't even make the poll.

[cs363]

All sweetness and light - I didn't even make the poll.

:lol: Fair call, but that poll was badly flawed - there were several names missing that should have been there, and at least a couple on there that aren't really shit stirrers, more like shit heads.... :whistle:

[ready4whatever]

As crap as these Tele/Vodies all are, who doesn't still get a laugh at the "Mexican Doug" Instant-Kiwi ads.
They are brilliant !!

get a perm, douglas. haha i like the 2 degrees ads with rhys darby

[cs363]

get a perm, douglas. haha i like the 2 degrees ads with rhys darby

Yeah, I might not buy the product, but at least they are mildly entertaining. Rhys Darby is a funny bastard :)