::: Grrrr….Rebates :::
As somebody who spends ungodly amounts of cash on technology I frequently go to sites like NewEgg.com for my purchases. Those guys tend to have the best pricing and they usually have whatever I need, be it hard drives, memory, enclosures, batteries,…whatever.
The one thing that bugs me to no end is this rebate [...]
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The hassle with Rebates – rant
Published by August 21st, 2009 in Bullshit and Let's Go Shopping. 0 CommentsPalm Pre out June 6th, Sprint and Palm still don’t get it
Published by May 20th, 2009 in Bullshit and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsUPDATE 05/20 – Best Buy gets it! Just one day after the announcement that Sprint would sell the Palm Pre for $299 with a $100 mail-in rebate, Best Buy said today it’ll offer the Pre for $199 flat out. So there is hope for the Pre if Best Buy keeps word and maybe Sprint starts [...]
Black Hole Marketing – Stupid Advertising
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Bullshit and Marketing with Kroy. 0 CommentsBlack Hole Marketing
I call any form of advertising and marketing that’s wasteful and pointless Black Hole Marketing.
Yes you aren’t crazy – there really are stupid marketers doing stupid things all the time.
To give you an example, I just saw yet another TV ad from Comcast, advertising their new bundled cable Internet and TV packages. A [...]
Kill your Image – Loral Langmeier, Robert Allen
Published by May 9th, 2009 in Bullshit, Marketing with Kroy and Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsWhat do Loral Langmeier (or is it Loral Langemeier?) and Robert Allen have in common?
They’re renown self help gurus who originally had a good service to offer, had a great reputation, and now are nothing more than desperate telemarketing sales spammers.
Got an automated call from Loral Langmeier’s office at 1-866-905-9891
The message stated that Loral Langmeier [...]
Air Force One New York Flyover – Incompetence At Work
Published by May 8th, 2009 in Because You Asked, Bullshit and digital content creation. 0 CommentsSo this is the result of forcing an entire city into a panic – a shitty photo of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty behind it. This picture is so bad, anyone with Photoshop and a little bit of patience can do this.
I mean it – instead of scaring New York City residents, [...]
You know there’s a problem when the usually stern and serious minded site Forbes.com puts out a new section of OFFICE PRANK VIDEOS. Forbe’s site is a great example of what NOT to do when you try to build your brand online. They annoy visitors with an armada of ads (many of them with audio) [...]
Now, that’s just clever. Among all those homogenized, sanitized and family friendly players in the coffee world there finally is this small novelty company in San Francisco selling one product: Meth Coffee.
Okay, it ain’t really meth – meth coffee is merely Arabica beans and Yerba Mate. The producer of Meth Coffee is unknown and just [...]
Okay so life is wonderful, the sites are doing very well, the girls are happy and all that. But then Intel came out last week with something that really put my stomach in a tailspin. Remember my quest to get those brand new, super-duper Intel chips called Conroe (Core 2 Extreme blah blah blah)?
Well guess [...]
Why APPLEs are for Hippies – Macs and other Junk
Published by August 15th, 2006 in Because You Asked and Bullshit. 0 CommentsEvery so often somebody asks me why I’m not using Apple computers. Particularly Mac users have a very annoying and often arrogant way of letting you know that their box is oh so superior, stable, better, prettier and whatnot. Just watch the recent Apple commercials and you know what I mean. Pure arrogance.
Well, I don’t [...]
Oversight Alert: Airlines, liquids, and other bad combos
Published by August 12th, 2006 in Bullshit. 0 CommentsOkay, so I understand a bunch of fuckwads were trying to blow up an airliner flying from the UK to USA by combining liquids with some sort of chemical or somesuch, and now airlines are making travellers empty out shampoo bottles, water bottles, baby bottles, perfumes, and so forth.
The rationale here seems to be that by [...]
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