Annoying Commercials

Poncier

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

K A R S KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS!

DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!

My first thought when I read the thread title. So, I jumped in to see if it had been named. And nofuckinjoke...it started playing on the radio just as I was reading DK's response to T-n-G's listing it. That commercial is the god damned devil!

Every time that thing comes on the radio in the car I switch stations as fast as I can.

dankind

Poncier said:

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

K A R S KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS!

DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!

My first thought when I read the thread title. So, I jumped in to see if it had been named. And nofuckinjoke...it started playing on the radio just as I was reading DK's response to T-n-G's listing it. That commercial is the god damned devil!

Every time that thing comes on the radio in the car I switch stations as fast as I can.

To no avail....

hedonist

Way back when my car finally died and I was going to donate it, I briefly thought about Kars 4 FuckingKids, became irritated in a Pavlovian sense, and went with another organization.

darwinstheory

Poncier said:

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

K A R S KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS!

DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!

My first thought when I read the thread title. So, I jumped in to see if it had been named. And nofuckinjoke...it started playing on the radio just as I was reading DK's response to T-n-G's listing it. That commercial is the god damned devil!

Every time that thing comes on the radio in the car I switch stations as fast as I can.

Me too, but every time, it is too late. The damage has already been done. Just as @hedonist suggested, I would specifically donate a car to another organization just to spite that damn commercial. Sorry kids, but I am not giving in to that commercial. 

Seriously though, how many commercial bits do they buy. And it's been going on for so many years.

Poncier

darwinstheory said:

Poncier said:

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

K A R S KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS!

DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!

My first thought when I read the thread title. So, I jumped in to see if it had been named. And nofuckinjoke...it started playing on the radio just as I was reading DK's response to T-n-G's listing it. That commercial is the god damned devil!

Every time that thing comes on the radio in the car I switch stations as fast as I can.

Me too, but every time, it is too late. The damage has already been done. Just as @hedonist suggested, I would specifically donate a car to another organization just to spite that damn commercial. Sorry kids, but I am not giving in to that commercial. 

Seriously though, how many commercial bits do they buy. And it's been going on for so many years.

I have heard that the percent of donations they make to charity is very low compared to others. Which makes sense as their advertising budget is $69 Billion per day.
When we donated an old car of my wife's years ago, we donated it to The Salvation Army.

Poncier

To wit:

https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/costly-and-continuous-kars4kids-ads-disguise-charity39s-real-purpose

"For example, about one-half of the average resale value of each donated car in 2015 went to pay for Kars4Kids’ fundraising and advertising expenses that year. Therefore, although Kars4Kids may have cheaper processing costs than many other car donation charities, it still spent more on overhead than it did on programs in 2015, when just 47% of its cash budget went to programs – an unsatisfactory level by CharityWatch’s standards."

And the kids who benefit are just Jewish kids apparently, something I learned today.

Poncier

More in that article;

"Kars4Kids’ low rate of program spending is also particularly concerning given that the vast majority of Kars4Kids’ program expenses consist of grants to its “sister charity,” Oorah, which runs the “educational, developmental, and recreational programs for Jewish youth and their families” funded by Kars4Kids, per its mission. About 93% of Kars4Kids’ cash-based program spending in 2015 was in the form of a grant to Oorah in the amount of approximately $16.9 million. By comparison, Kars4Kids reported spending about $17.1 million on advertising and promotion in 2015 – about $150,000 more than its cash grant to Oorah. Furthermore, as a percentage of the funds Kars4Kids generated from donated vehicles (including boats & planes) in 2015, its grant to Oorah represented only about 46% of those total funds raised.

Additionally, as the car donation proceeds get passed along from Kars4Kids to Oorah, Oorah itself has fundraising and general administrative costs to pay for, which it does primarily with the grant money it receives from Kars4Kids. Therefore, the proceeds Kars4Kids generates from car donations get another “hair cut” when they make their way to Oorah. Fortunately, Oorah’s cash-based program spending percentage was 74% in 2015, which is above CharityWatch’s reasonableness benchmark of 60%. Even with Oorah’s very reasonable rate of program spending, though, once Oorah’s and Kars4Kids’ overhead expenses are considered in aggregate, only about 38% of Kars4Kids’ donated car proceeds were spent on bona fide programs in 2015. In other words, based on the average resale value of about $365 for a car donated to Kars4Kids in 2015, less than $139 actually went towards benefitting “kids,” who, as a reminder, are mostly Jewish youth that participate in Oorah’s Orthodox Jewish outreach programs."

tempo_n_groove

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

K A R S KARS FOR KIDS
K A R S KARS FOR KIDS!

DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!!!

My first thought when I read the thread title. So, I jumped in to see if it had been named. And nofuckinjoke...it started playing on the radio just as I was reading DK's response to T-n-G's listing it. That commercial is the god damned devil!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!  I forgot who, but someone chastised me for getting this song in their head!

bwahahahaaaa!!!

This song is damn annoying but catchy!

Purple Fairy Tree

Washing machines live longer with Calgon.

Ledbetterman10

Any commercial that features an alarm clock buzzing. Also hate most insurance commercials. Geico is the worst. But progressive and State Farm suck too. 

RogueStoner

And why do they have to be so much louder than the show you’re watching? Or play the same one three times in a row? 

tempo_n_groove

RogueStoner said:

And why do they have to be so much louder than the show you’re watching? Or play the same one three times in a row? 

The loudness part I believe is a Rupert Murdoch thing.

eeriepadave

lately this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O6bKC-XUNE

tempo_n_groove

eeriepadave said:

lately this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O6bKC-XUNE

OMG I love her "and something for the deer!", lol that cracks me up.

eeriepadave

recently it's been this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWCeYRvB7I4

Jason P

Insurance commercials drive me nuts.  I'm pretty sure that insurance premiums would be $50 a year if they just stopped running so many ads.  FYI - my friend who is an independent adjuster told me the companies that run the most ads are the worst to deal with. 

I had to go youtube premium to stop ads because I was starting to fantasize about murdering a certain emu

DissidentRival74

Jason P said:

Insurance commercials drive me nuts.  I'm pretty sure that insurance premiums would be $50 a year if they just stopped running so many ads.  FYI - my friend who is an independent adjuster told me the companies that run the most ads are the worst to deal with. 

I had to go youtube premium to stop ads because I was starting to fantasize about murdering a certain emu

I absolutely HATE the mayhem ones.  I don't find them funny at all.  Can't stand any of them.  And it sucks bc I really like/liked the guy who plays "mayhem" when he's on Brooklyn 99.  But in these commercials - can't stand him...

eddiec

deadendp said:

Pharmaceutical commercials. 

"So you have a lil fungus on your toenails? Take this spiffy pill and it'll get rid of it in just a few months."

"It has been found that in some, Spiffy Toenail Fungus Killer has caused bleeding from both eyes, fingers to necrose, spleens to explode and unexplainable internal swelling with oily discharge."

"Spiffy Toenail Fungus Killer. Ask your doctor today about a way to get your beach feet ready again."

I never realized how many drug commercials were on American TV until I moved to Europe. (Prescription drug ads are illegal in the EU.) But if I'm watching an American sports stream that doesn't black out the ads, it feels like drug commercial after drug commercial after drug commercial.

eeriepadave

Jason P said:

Insurance commercials drive me nuts.  I'm pretty sure that insurance premiums would be $50 a year if they just stopped running so many ads.  FYI - my friend who is an independent adjuster told me the companies that run the most ads are the worst to deal with. 

I had to go youtube premium to stop ads because I was starting to fantasize about murdering a certain emu

Not if he gets you first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI3RhwSF8mo

Leezestarr313

- The Jardiance musical. Takes weeks to get that fucking song out of your head.

- Alllll the "Hi, I am the CEO/ owner of" ones for laundry detergend, chairs, social media photo frames etc.

- Super Beta Prostate stuff (who would get something that is called "super beta"?)

- cheap viagra - that guy gives me the creeps

- The ones for the health insurance extensions where they repeat the entire thing two times

- Shriner's hospital for children