Painfully Stupid Commercial

[the_std]

Tell me, does this commercial make anyone want to buy/subscribe to their product?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNT-kHS-wo

Edit: Silly me, I typo'd the title! It was supposed to be "Painfully Stupid Commercial".

[crazylegs]

Tell me, does this commercial make anyone want to buy/subscribe to their product?

I'd rather eat broken glass.

[Broomjockey]

Oh gods. That is being pushed so hard in my city right now. There's bus ads, billboards, the TV commercial, and that commercial runs as a trailer on movies in the theatre too. Ugh.

[marasbaras]

I think it's funny.

[lordlundar]

I think it's funny.

Try hearing it or the others every other ad. Funny disappears REAL quick.

[Evil Queen]

MY EYES! MY EARS! THEY BLEED!

I'm DROWNING IN MY OWN BLOOD!

*gargles*

[marasbaras]

Try hearing it or the others every other ad. Funny disappears REAL quick.

Oh, it's OK, I'd look forward to the attractive black woman on the treadmill with the fantastic legs.

[Chanlin]

Although I don't follow the Canadian cellular industry at all the customer reaction from a very short internet search seems to be positive. They do seem to have a few bugs they are working out of their systems at the moment, but thats to be expected of a fledgling service.

The comcercial is silly, I don't find it funny, it almost seems to make fun of itself. And the marketers at Telus seem to think its funny too. Somehow I'm glad I don't live in Canada at the moment. In any case if I were to take a stab in the dark I see them possibly pulling this off. But then who knows. In the US the Pay as you go model is really starting to catch on. I'm not sure how popular pay as you go plans are in Canada but it could work

[Broomjockey]

For the record, cell phone plans in Canada suck. What's funny is despite the number of times that I've seen this commercial, I never knew it was pay-as-you-go. There's already one service (FIDO, I think), so it was just a matter of time until another showed up.

Too bad their commercials make me wanna stab something.

[Chanlin]

For the record, cell phone plans in Canada suck.

I've heard that much said time and again, never bothered to research exactly why that is. I know they tend to be fairly high priced and what not, but is that the only reason?

[Broomjockey]

Really high prices for not getting much. I got a "Student Back to School" promo plan for college students, and I get 100 daytime minutes, evenings 8pm-8am free, and long distance in Canada free (though I don't know anyone in Canada outside my province ), 100 text messages, Caller ID, 5 message voice mail, and 4meg data plan, and it costs me $78 a month.

Coverage is usually decent, but can be spotty depending on provider.

[Chanlin]

You aren't kidding Broom that is pretty bad.

For about that same price in Canadian dollars (did the conversion) at least with the company I work for you can get a plan that has unlimited voice minutes all day every day. That also includes Caller ID, Call Forwarding, Voice Mail with a 15 message capacity, and call waiting. The only place we really lack is a competitive text messaging plan and we don't have data. And coverage isn't bad, at least around where I live.