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Unread 21 Oct 2005, 00:09   #1
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"New" marketing strategy...
Looks like your mum is trying to go the viral route with her "dirty-o" campaign... Thoughts? Taunts?
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
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Thoughts? Taunts?
Thoughts? F*** you.

Taunts? F*** your mother, sister, aunts and grandmother as well.

My, that felt good.
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Launch yourself back into space.
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What "ditty-o" campaign?
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
/me smells a viral marketing campaign in the form of andyfromspace, and i despise it.
logic suggests he, or the advertising company he was hired for is being paid by dell, therefore never shall i buy a dell machine
hope this gets the message across. viral marketing doesnt work to cynical people, and GD is as cynical as you can get

incidently, i found it most amusing the last dell campaign that was attempted.
they were going after sun for having 'big box' servers which ran monolithic OS's , only for it to be found that the advertisements themselves were being run on said monolithic servers.
Much embarassment for dell, much amusement for me.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09...techforce_sun/ , http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/03/dell_fires_sun/ for details if you're interested
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
I wasn't trying to start / spread a viral campaign, just trying to ask whether or not you guys thought whether guys thought it was a legitmate strategy or if it would just flop. Not many other companies have been all that sucessful with it, except for maybe that Nutrigrain ad... Just asking opinions, I was actually amused by how hard they tried with the Mitch Ferrence guy, but that's just me.
 
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joined march 2005
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No posts since then, till now.
Creates thread 5 months later subtlely trying to draw attention to dells marketing campaign.
hmm

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Yes yes, the editing was slightly childish but I feel it had the desired result.
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
so this is connected to Ruff Willy (the nesquik x-box game competition advertiser) posting a ditty-o link in the male dancing thread

I was looking at green spit today (I mean the new member, not a chest infection). He's only posted a few times and I expect most of us (who noticed him) were wondering when he was going to reveal his true reason for signing up in the form of some advertising campaign. It occurred to me that while marketing types are pretty pleased with themselves and think they've found a new way of reaching potential customers, all they do (here at least) is make it harder for new people to be trusted. They damage our community and innocent genuine newcomers pay the price.

Just wanted to say shame on them for that

PS. advertising dell here makes us even less likely to buy from them than we were before
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PS. advertising dell here makes us even less likely to buy from them than we were before
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
**** Dell, those outsourcing ****s. Goddamned Indians on their sales line! They out sourced SALES TO INDIA! NO I DON'T WANT TO BUY YOUR SHIT BECAUSE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE WORDS COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.

Seriously, I asked if the DELL DJ came with podcasting software and the guy just hung up on me, and the next person (I called back - silly me) just had no idea what it is I was talking about because 'podcast' wasn't in his vocabulary.
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I dont like dell, as you cant buy them in shops!
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
this thread has inspired me to go out and buy a dell machine

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I get discount with dell...
12% off if it's over £1200...

too expensive for me really tho...
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you can make your own systems that are cheaper and better. dell are shit intel fan-boys.
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Re: "New" marketing strategy...
People please.
Their computers aren't worth the paper the support phone number is printed on.
Let's see:
- Like most retailers they're only cheap if you buy the "standard" stuff, so if you want a decent graphics card and memory you may as well build it yourself or go to a real dealer.
- The default included support and warrenty is barely worth the paper it's printed on, is dealt with by unintelligable Indians, and rarely actually admits a problem.
- They use proprietary parts (and even connectors on some bits, including the PSU) so if something blows up, guess who you have to buy it from? Guess who doesn't cover it under the default warrenty? Guess who slaps a 300% profit premium on it?

I had an entire year of having to deal with Dell machines and dealing with Dell at work last year, and we had the advantage of our very own sales rep. Even then it was still shit, so for god's sake don't use them as a single worthless consumer.
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Could you post that on the dell website somewhere?
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so this is connected to Ruff Willy (the nesquik x-box game competition advertiser) posting a ditty-o link in the male dancing thread

I was looking at green spit today (I mean the new member, not a chest infection). He's only posted a few times and I expect most of us (who noticed him) were wondering when he was going to reveal his true reason for signing up in the form of some advertising campaign. It occurred to me that while marketing types are pretty pleased with themselves and think they've found a new way of reaching potential customers, all they do (here at least) is make it harder for new people to be trusted. They damage our community and innocent genuine newcomers pay the price.
Hello 1-X. I hear what you are saying and let me reassure you I am not an advertiser, I played Pa a long time ago but never used the boards but I just started browsing them a few weeks ago on and off and decided to join up.

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