On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 06:01:32PM +0200, mike wilson wrote: > On 28/06/2011 02:48, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > >It's commerce in a free society, and, for the most part, it works. > > The evidence of your own eyes here shows that to be incorrect with > at least this, admittedly, small and self-selecting sample. The > reactions vary from "so what" to vehement abhorrence. Not the > response I would want if I was an advertiser, especially as this > demographic is probably better able to participate in the free > market than some pimply teenager furtively combing the site for, er, > art.
I'd have to disagree. While we may be more likely to buy Jaguars/BMWs/Lexi, those aren't the products pushed by the most intrusive advertisements. As a group we're far less likely to buy on impulse. In fact, apart from Viagra, hardly any of us meet the key demographics the advertisers look for. Pimply teenagers are far *more* likely to buy pimple "cures", cheap auto insurance, grooming products, energy drinks, and trendy clothing - all prducts with a much higher profit margin than most things we buy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
