Are You Tired of Any TV Commercials?

PopsnTuff said:
Do you ever just mute the volume @Ruthanne?...thats what I do and go do a small chore in or outside the house or I pause the show, viewing it again shortly...I've timed those suckers at between 3-6 minutes each, geez...
Now the Xmas ads are all on...and when I dont mute, the Progressive, Allstate, Geico, Charmin bears, Medicare and Burger King (with the new veggie burger) ones are nerve racking, ugh....
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I mute them except for the very very few that are cute !
 

Netflix was the first one we had after dumping cable eight years ago. Really liked the programs offered. Like others have grew bored with them and may cancel. We also recent have gone from Firestick to Roku.
We have Britbox and CBS access. If we watch regular tv it is channel 11 for us. Both CBS and Britbox together is cheaper than Netflix for us.
 
If you remember them and then post them here on a web site than those commercials have done their job.
 

we record everything we watch and fast-forward through the commercials. even if I set down to watch something I will hit record and come back half hour later.
 
I work in my basement shop all day and have the TV on to keep me company. Usually, I set it for Turner classic movies or sometimes, FETV. FETV is a channel that plays old shows exclusively: The Lone Ranger, Matlock, Perry Mason, etc. (Della Street is HOT!) Anyway, they know their audience. The commercials target the elderly exclusively: burial plots, final expense insurance, open enrollment Medicare supplemental insurance, CPAP machines, car accident injuries, cancer causing asbestos and Roundup exposure and lawyers asking you to call all 3s, 8s, etc. The same commercials run 24 hours/day. It's depressing and insulting to my intelligence. Why do I continue to watch that channel you ask? Della Street!
 
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I hate when a commercial comes on and how long they are. Tonight a commercial came on and it made me cry. I had never seen it before. It was called pass it on. I know that if I ever see it again I will mute it. It was bad enough when the commercials would annoy me,but making me cry is worse.
 
The latest radio commercial for Progressive is really annoying. Who is the woman -- Flo? -- who's been doing them (on TV too) for years now.

Used to be they were just neutral to me: Didn't love, didn't hate. But this new one I hate because she is supposed to be angry or something and her voice is really offensive to listen to. I guess she's supposed to be cute or something, but it ain't working for me.

It's the latest one that I MUST shut off or switch channels as soon as I hear it.
 
When I'm watching TV, the Mute button my remote gets plenty of exercise. It seems that the frequency and duration of commercials have been increasing steadily lately, and there is more time devoted to commercials than the actual show, on some of the channels. There is a growing list of products I will NOT consider buying as a result of these excessive commercials.
 
ALL insurance commercials. Most of what we watch is shows that we have recorded, so we just fast forward through the commercials.
 
Don M. said:
When I'm watching TV, the Mute button my remote gets plenty of exercise. It seems that the frequency and duration of commercials have been increasing steadily lately, and there is more time devoted to commercials than the actual show, on some of the channels. There is a growing list of products I will NOT consider buying as a result of these excessive commercials.
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Yup!

I'm amazed at the stupidity of these company's sales depts that don't realize this.

Also something I've thought about: The TV or radio stations that accept these ads have options, but they're even too stupid to figure it out. Something like this:

To a prospective advertiser: "We do not accept ads that offend people, and we have a pretty good handle on which ads those might be. We will also not repeat your ad more than twice per hour. Because of our policies, we have a happy listener/viewer base. We charge a bit more to run ads, but our base is expanding, drawing from those stations who will let anybody advertise anything they want. So if you advertise with us, you will reach a larger audience."

Something like this may happen, slowly, but I don't see it yet. It will take many years. (I just shut "Flo" off . . . ok, back to typing). The obsession companies have had in the past 15 years or so to do everything they can to insulate themselves from their CUSTOMERS (i.e. trying to reach a human being on the phone) is slowly reversing. The endless, valid, and angry complaints are making a difference.

I've done numerous things in the past couple of years to fight this: Switched credit card companies twice (Discover has the best customer service); switched cell carrier (Consumer Cellular is light years ahead of all others as far as customer service).

I also threatened to get a lawyer involved (and I wasn't nice about it) regarding a company I simply COULD NOT get ahold of no matter what I tried. There was $4,000 involved so it was important. The threat was against an intermediary company so they got things fixed -- rather quickly.

Too bad most of us here will not live long enough to see this turn around, back to normalcy, to where it used to be. Back to when companies realized that it's not a good business plan to insulate themselves from people WHO ARE GIVING THEM MONEY. Lol, seems pretty simple.

I've been self-employed for 35 years and this all seems so simple, and will work with any business: Give people what they want, when they want it, to the best of your ability.

And of course they need to re-learn the timeless advice: "The customer is always right."

Oh well, it's something to rant about while isolated from humanity.
 
I also like "the actor" doing the Liberty commercials who says "Liberty Biberty." I'm actually laughing now as I type it! Always laugh when I hear it, it's so dumb and stupid! :ROFLMAO:
 
Commercials on top of paying for cable, etc. make me lose my mind - thus part of the reason I hate watching the boob tube.
 

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