Have you ever bought anything as a result of advertising?

X-Ray Specs - 99p

From advert in back of whizzer & Chips - C.1980

Most of us do, indirectly. Supermarkets tend to stock products which have been advertised.

Mail On Sunday obviously!

And if content only gets made by blanket selling s hit most dont want then thats the wider public's inconvenience paying for the minority's enjoyment of the content.
So theres got to be an argument that the content does deserve to be made anyway.

Therefore everyone should use advertising blockers with impunity and ignore everything the marketing departments tell you.

JML NON STICK PAN ,an Amazing pan tbh was AD on TV they put a plastic bag in it that melted but still didn't stick

Nobody is denying that there are 'needs' that are supplied.
People need food but food itself doesnt need advertising.

Is it ironic that the food variants of those examples are actually the ones decried for adding stuff to their products that cynically 'hook' the consumer while at the same time deteriorating health?

Point taken.

I was just responding to your OP, really.

On a different track but in similar vein, has anyone bought anything off a shopping channel?

I bought a games console once with 50+ old Spectrum games on it for £30, the shopping channel done it's work an it was a must have purchase that "saved" me £25 had I bought it later.

Yes ripped off and fell for the speil.

Being blind deaf and dumb is the only way you will not consciously or subconsciously be influenced by advertising.

Not me. But I bought a meerkat toy on eBay.

There is a thread on here about it somewhere

Anyone who thinks that advertising hasn't affected their buying decisions is seriously naive.

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I drink whats on offer so i don't fall for advertisements i just get good deals

I bought some Shake 'n' Vac

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POZIDRIV sold hundreds of thousands due to their advertizing campaign in the early 70s. Nearly everyone seemed to have one.

^least

I get pissed off at the number of times I have to not download some cheap pointless app for them to get the message that their clash of clans or mobile strike has zero appeal.

I don't care how much money they pay Arnie to dress up to try and convince me I should play some shallow war app on my phone....it won't be happening.

It's said that choice is some parable of civilised society, but just look what happens when there are no limits. People get encouraged to make utter tripe and sell it like it's required.

Whenever I make any sort of purchase I have so many options that it's difficult working out which is the best option, which won't be obsolete in six months or which of the masquerades actually have any truth to them.

Ive got a double cupboard in the kitchen thats chock full of needless crap, but I can't recall any of it being purchased as a result of seeing an advert.
Its like an elephants graveyard of devices from breville to jack lelane and nutri bullet to george foreman grill.....barely any of it gets used and all was bought as a result of seeing other people having them and assuming them to be good.

I think we should have trade magazines that are more like indexes for enterprise wanting to advise on what crap is on the market in any given sector....if you want a new car then go look to see what the options are.
The rest of advertising away from the actual premises where things are purchased should get banned. Opportunist selling of garbage just to keep a needless industry afloat or subsequent financing of other things should end, if they fail then humanity will endure and survive without all the landfill junk and who knows the creative types might be forced to actually create better things for people rather than looking at a product and thinking of a way they can dupe the public into buying it.