Ever turn on a product because their current ad campaign is so bad?

OMG! Have you forgotten about the cool kids ad? Many of us temporarily changed our avatars to express our enchantment. @OrganicZed is still honoring it.

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I was already biased against this particular brand, and reaffirmed after this :D


And this
 
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Piing said:
I was already biased against this particular brand, and reaffirmed after this :D


And this
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Yeah I forgot about that second video; what a fucking waste (yeah I know the guitar itself was dumb). They could have done ANYTHING else with them, but I guess seeing that Henry was well off his nut by that point, maybe he figured the write-off was the worth it.
 
RE: the guitar destruction I heard that it was because there was a snafu with suppliers and there was lead in the paint or something like that? Idk if thats true or not though
 
spawnofthesith said:
RE: the guitar destruction I heard that it was because there was a snafu with suppliers and there was lead in the paint or something like that? Idk if thats true or not though
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According to BJ Wilkes, the former Gibson employee that posted the video, it was a “horrible guitar with too much technology all based on Windows 98 or something” (it had USB and many whistles). According to former Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. “They literally could not sell these guitars and they were on the books,”. “Investors were all trying to clean up the mess before the end of the fiscal year. (1, 2).

At the end of the day, it was all about finance books. An insurance claim from the dealers which required the guitars to be destroyed to prevent them from being sold, and to remove Financial Liabilities: following the ousting of former CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, the new ownership was focused on cleaning up the company's financial situation, and the guitars were a burden.

As someone says at the comments, they could have donated, even a single one of them, to charity education.
 
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Yeah I forgot about that second video; what a fucking waste (yeah I know the guitar itself was dumb). They could have done ANYTHING else with them, but I guess seeing that Henry was well off his nut by that point, maybe he figured the write-off was the worth it.
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Piing said:
According to BJ Wilkes, the former Gibson employee that posted the video, it was a “horrible guitar with too much technology all based on Windows 98 or something” (it had USB and many whistles). According to former Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. “They literally could not sell these guitars and they were on the books,”. “Investors were all trying to clean up the mess before the end of the fiscal year. (1, 2).

At the end of the day, it was all about finance books. An insurance claim from the dealers which required the guitars to be destroyed to prevent them from being sold, and to remove Financial Liabilities: following the ousting of former CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, the new ownership was focused on cleaning up the company's financial situation, and the guitars were a burden.

As someone says at the comments, they could have donated, even a single one of them, to charity education.
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Progressive_disclosure said:
That shit really reinforced my standing on never buying anything by Gibson. What a fucking waste. I’d rather play unauthentic.
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To be fair, the company said this about the idea of donating them:

“[they were] an isolated batch of Firebird X models built in 2009-2011 which were unsalvageable and damaged with unsafe components. This isolated group of Firebird X models were unable to be donated for any purpose and were destroyed accordingly.”
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I don’t know, but I don’t have any reason to not believe them. I remember working in food service for sporting events and seeing massive amounts of food thrown away at the end of the day. We asked why they didn’t donate it and were told they wanted to, but there was some sort of bureaucratic reason they legally couldn’t. It took several years of working to find a way around that before they could start donating it. So I know there can sometimes be barriers to donating things that might not be immediately obvious to outside observers.
 
JasonE said:
I have stopped buying products due to advertising as well as company conduct. One of my pet peeves is when companies step into the political arena. That will cause me to steer away from a company pretty fast. I want to hear about your products, not your political beliefs.
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What gets me is that most people agree with this completely, which is why every company that has embarked on the journey of social activism has experienced massive financial losses as a result, yet they refuse to change their tactics. And then other companies follow the same path, even though they are fully aware that they are committing financial suicide in doing so.
 
metropolis_4 said:
To be fair, the company said this about the idea of donating them:



I don’t know, but I don’t have any reason to not believe them. I remember working in food service for sporting events and seeing massive amounts of food thrown away at the end of the day. We asked why they didn’t donate it and were told they wanted to, but there was some sort of bureaucratic reason they legally couldn’t. It took several years of working to find a way around that before they could start donating it. So I know there can sometimes be barriers to donating things that might not be immediately obvious to outside observers.
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While that could be very true, the fact that they put up a video of it on YT was a stupid AF decision.
 
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Did the company make the video and put it up?
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It was BJ Wilkes, a former Gibson employee, who uncovered their shame.

You can listen to him here. He explains that he took the video down because he didn’t want to contribute to any negativity against his former employer. Too late.


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Last year McDonald’s royally fucked up my family’s order of milkshakes and I vowed to never again have another McDonald’s milkshake, and I never fucking will. The only reason I conceded to continue going to McDonald’s is because my daughter likes their Happy Meals.
 
I'm pretty sure I have only ever been lost by television or web advertising. Back in the day, a good print ad drew me in more than once.
 
Mikael Dez said:
Last year McDonald’s royally fucked up my family’s order of milkshakes and I vowed to never again have another McDonald’s milkshake, and I never fucking will. The only reason I conceded to continue going to McDonald’s is because my daughter likes their Happy Meals.
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You’re really better off, those shake machines are basically mold growth containment systems and even in casual dining joints aren’t cleaned out as properly as they should be, never mind McD’s. Every Chili’s used to have one and at best you’d get a server dumping some hot water through it at the end of their shift, but on average there’s so much nasty gunk built up in the crevices and any area shit can grow in that the first time I cleaned one I never drank a shake from one again in the 7 years and 4 different Chili’s I worked at.
 
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