Archive through December 29, 2002
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Archive through December 29, 2002
Whoami | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:11 pm     LORI!!! |
Heyltslori | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 01:18 pm     from the Clairol people: Thank you for contacting us. It was very thoughtful of you to share your opinions about an ad for Herbal Essences® Fruit Fusions Shampoo. Consumer research is an essential step in developing every Clairol advertising program. Depending on the product and the advertising plan, we conduct personal interviews, phone surveys, small group focus meetings, or use any number of other survey methods. Obviously, we hope that these efforts will give us an accurate evaluation of consumer response. Sometimes they don't. Your letter has alerted us to a possible problem. You can be sure we will share your comments with our advertising agency and all the employees who worked on that campaign. We appreciate your constructive criticism. Your perspective and recommendations are very important to us. We will include them with other consumer comments as we continue to monitor and evaluate Clairol advertising programs, now and in the future. The Consumer Affairs Team Oh yeah baby...heads are gonna roll!! lol |
Fanny | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 01:35 pm     OMG this sounds serious. Good job, Lori |
Marysafan | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 01:36 pm     Halfunit...my hubby owns a copier service company...and when I saw this commercial...I laughed myself silly...and hubby actually blushed! I said, "No wonder XYZ company calls for service all the time!" |
Grooch | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 01:51 pm     That's my daughter.  |
Hippyt | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 03:28 pm     I haven't gotten a reply from Clairol yet. I bet it will be 'amazingly' similar to Lori's letter! |
Weinermr | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 07:08 pm     J.C. Panney! J.C. Panney!! J.C. Panney!!! ARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!! Never mind. Go back to what you were doing. |
Hippyt | Monday, December 16, 2002 - 03:22 pm     HeyIt'sLori,Does this look familiar???? Thank you for contacting us. It was very thoughtful of you to share your opinions about an ad for Herbal Essences® Shampoo. Consumer research is an essential step in developing every Clairol advertising program. Depending on the product and the advertising plan, we conduct personal interviews, phone surveys, small group focus meetings, or use any number of other survey methods. Obviously, we hope that these efforts will give us an accurate evaluation of consumer response. Sometimes they don't. Your letter has alerted us to a possible problem. You can be sure we will share your comments with our advertising agency and all the employees who worked on that campaign. We appreciate your constructive criticism. Your perspective and recommendations are very important to us. We will include them with other consumer comments as we continue to monitor and evaluate Clairol advertising programs, now and in the future. |
Heyltslori | Monday, December 16, 2002 - 04:12 pm     LOL Hippy...the SAME person must have handwritten BOTH of our letters! Imagine that! |
Crazydog | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:03 pm     What a fun thread! I hate the AT&T digital cable commercial. There's this dad who gets an ugly shirt from his family for Christmas, disappears to call the cable company, and instantly the cable guy shows up, while they're still in their pj's unwrapping presents. So stupid. I saw this commercial with some idiot blonde who asks her husband if anything is missing around her neck, or her ears. "Are you suuuurrrreeee there's nothing missing?!?!?" Of course it's a diamond commercial. I want to clock her on the head. I haven't seen it in a while, but there was a commercial for one of those cell phone companies (the one where things are always misheard), where the guy brings home a monkey with a cold. The monkey reaches for a kleenex. It's so funny. Too bad for Verizon or Sprint, or whoever, that I have no idea what company it was for. |
Calamity | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:19 pm     I think the monkey with a cold commercial is for Sprint. I'm liking the AT&T mlife (what a dumb name) ad with the cute couple who can't find any seats together on the bus. It's sweet. And it reminds me of riding the school bus. Every morning we'd pass a farm with a huge herd of buffalo. The problem was, the pasture was in between two high hills and often there'd be an idiot parked at the bottom of the hill, gawking at the animals. The bus driver (who never learned to take the hill slowly) would have to slam on the brakes and kids, books, etc. would go flying. A surefire wake-up call to anyone who happened to doze off. |
Rig | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:26 pm     I saw one that annoyed me last night. A guy is at an electronics store, buying stuff for himself. The cashier says "your kids are lucky" or something like that, and he runs back to get stuff for the kids. Then the same thing is repeated for his wife. I don't know why, but it just annoys me. |
Jkm | Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:56 pm     I love the commerical for the digital camera where the kid takes a picture of the shark then walks over to the fish tank and shows the fish the picture and they all scatter and the little boy just grins! |
Tashakinz | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 09:22 am     The Sears diamond commercial really offends me as a woman. "yeah - where are the diamonds?" when hubby's playing with the deck of cards. This commercial is completely mercenary in it's tone IMHO. I like diamonds, I don't know anyone who doesn't like diamonds, but this commercial really chapped my a**. |
Pamy | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 09:31 am     I saw one last nite for a cel phone, it showed a dog taking a crap and said with their cel phone you won't get any crap. I couldn't beleieve they got away with that on network tv! |
Cablejockey | Friday, December 20, 2002 - 08:05 pm     I don't know if this a coincidence or not, but, I have not seen that Clairol commercial all week!! It used to be on several times a day. Congrats to those e-mail complainers. Any one else notice this commercial isn't being seen so much as of late? |
Heyltslori | Friday, December 20, 2002 - 08:16 pm     Now that you mention it.... <patting myself on the back> |
Monkeyboy | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 01:59 pm     The commercials about Herpes Medicine just make me cringe... Hate old navy commercials and the new dell commercials are just annoying. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 02:37 pm     Oooo! I'm so happy! I saw they have the Dell computer kid back..I think he's so cute. I thought we'd lost him for all time. I seem to recall he got into a bit of legal trouble a few months ago. Anyway, like I said, I'm pleased as punch he's back on again. The new 'gang' just didn't cut it for me. 'DUDE YOU'RE GETTING A DELL' |
Marysafan | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 03:08 pm     The commercial that is getting a lot hype for the "best" of the year is the one for Saturn where they show the people moving about as if they were in cars to some cute music...a car commercial without cars! |
Halfunit | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 06:21 pm     I hope the Kia auto commercial is not a regional thing and some of you have seen the one where they are all dressed up in Christmas outfits. I LOVE THE SALES MONKEY !!! He is so cute, and I want one soooo bad!!! |
Hippyt | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 06:41 pm     Sales Monkey!!!!! Yes! I love the sales monkey too! I HATE! Jag-u-are! I think the Herbal Essence commercials may re-appear now that the holidays are over! |
Heyltslori | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 06:42 pm     bite your tongue! |
Spygirl | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 07:01 pm     I like the commercials for eBay that are out -- anyone seen them? "when you do it....eeeeeeeebaayyyyy" |
Hippyt | Sunday, December 29, 2002 - 07:11 pm     The one with the dancing grandma's is too cute,Spy! |
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