Posted by Charlie Siegrist on June 20, 2007, 11:00 pm
Circa Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:39:21 -0700 recorded as
>> Circa Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:29:20 -0700 recorded as
>>
>>> I will not returning to this Shell station. Life's too short for
>>>this kind of thing. I feel violated. Do people actually make a buying
>>>decision based on an ad that's being forced upon you like that?
>>
>> Well, you did. You won't be buying from that station again, and you may
>> even stop going to Shell altogether. I haven't bought Chevron gas for
>> some
>> five years now, based on a quite unfortunate night when I stopped at three
>> consecutive Chevron stations, and could not fuel up at any of them, all
>> based on administrative difficulties. Fuck 'em, I said.
>>
>Remind me not to sell you anything.
Well, had Chevron actually sold me the gasoline I wanted, I might still be
a customer, or at least, not an active non-customer. Maybe you meant to
say, "Remind me not to not sell you something." :-)
Posted by Charlie Siegrist on June 20, 2007, 9:23 pm
Circa Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:44:53 -0700 recorded as
>That's absolutely the wrong thing to do. If everyone that hated those
>ads abandonded those stations, then a self-selection process would
>happen to where the people that don't mind or like those ads would
>start going to those stations. More of them would buy those products,
>and the ads would be successful, spurring the advertisers to do it more.
That's absurd. I hope you are joking, and oh by the way, it didn't make me
laugh.
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>>> I will not returning to this Shell station. Life's too short for
>>>this kind of thing. I feel violated. Do people actually make a buying
>>>decision based on an ad that's being forced upon you like that?
>>
>> Well, you did. You won't be buying from that station again, and you may
>> even stop going to Shell altogether. I haven't bought Chevron gas for
>> some
>> five years now, based on a quite unfortunate night when I stopped at three
>> consecutive Chevron stations, and could not fuel up at any of them, all
>> based on administrative difficulties. Fuck 'em, I said.
>>
>Remind me not to sell you anything.