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ConnieTerwilliger
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 Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: National Feel? |
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Here's a lead that just came in on V123...bold added by me.
| Quote: | | This is a local :30 TV spot for the Houston market. The client is a discount store that competes with the national chains. The feel for the spot should be national. It needs an energetic, fast read. |
Fast - is an understatement...here is their script...
| Quote: | At Solo Clearance Center, our prices are so low you can’t afford not to buy new! We save our valued customers hundreds, even thousands off retail prices on name-brand refrigerators, freezers, washers and dryers, LCD and plasma TV’s and more every day!
Everything we sell is new, guaranteed, and comes with a warranty and on-site service. Our products may have slight blemishes, but if you can live with a scratch, dent or ding you can buy new at used prices!
So, what’s the secret to saving big? Go Solo, where the prices are so low you can’t help but save money!
Solo Clearance Center, “seventy-seven hundred I-45 North, Houston! |
Sigh...
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Frank F
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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I received the same "lead". I looked, noticed the price, and quietly deleted the project.
The best part of this was the fee of $150.00. For a national "sounding" spot???? With that copy???????
I give up.
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CWToo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: National Feel? |
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| Quote: | | At Solo Clearance Center, our prices are so low you can’t afford not to buy new! |
I had to diagram the sentence to understand it. |
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Bailey
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Frank F wrote: | | The best part of this was the fee of $150.00. For a national "sounding" spot? |
Maybe the Solo Clearance Center needs to get in touch with the Solo VO Services... where the prices are also so low you can’t help but save money!
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CarynClark
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I deleted it. Too much copy... not enough money. 
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DaveChristi
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Location: Bend, OR
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Sigh...  Why do so many advertisers believe that the right voice will make sub-standard copy interesting?
| Quote: | | At Solo Clearance Center, our prices are so low you can’t afford not to buy new! |
Oh yeah? Prove it!
| Quote: | | We save our valued customers hundreds, even thousands off retail prices on name-brand refrigerators, freezers, washers and dryers, LCD and plasma TV’s and more every day! |
Will your CHEAP crap break down in 6-months?
| Quote: | | Everything we sell is new, guaranteed, and comes with a warranty and on-site service. |
So is everything your competition sells.
| Quote: | | Our products may have slight blemishes, but if you can live with a scratch, dent or ding you can buy new at used prices! |
Oh boy! Dented AND it will break down in 6-months! Blah Blah Blah.
| Quote: | | So, what’s the secret to saving big? |
Are you still talking?
| Quote: | | Go Solo, where the prices are so low you can’t help but save money! |
Oh! I get it. It's a play on words! So Low. Solo. (I should watch Star Wars again.... did Han really shoot first?)
| Quote: | | Solo Clearance Center, “seventy-seven hundred I-45 North, Houston! |
How did I get ketchup on my shirt?
Mission accomplished! Total tune-out in under 30-seconds.
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mcm
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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I love this board.  |
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Lance Blair
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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"Our products may have slight blemishes, but if you can live with a scratch, dent or ding you can buy new at used prices!"
Yeah, that national feel...of Uzbekistan. I'd rather go to that place that's just like a Mini-Mall in Montgomery than this Citadel of Scheisterdom.
I can live with dents and dings, I can't live with Mr. Announcer Guy shouting and hyperventilating at me for thirty seconds because Mr. Clever Trousers is under the delusion that he can write snazzy copy. |
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Lizden
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| mcm wrote: | | I love this board. |
Ditto! 
L.
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mcm
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| Quote: | | Mr. Clever Trousers |
Now I love this board even more  |
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Yoda117
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tackerman
The Gates of Troy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Lance Blair wrote: | | I'd rather go to that place that's just like a Mini-Mall in Montgomery |
Flea MAR-ket, mont-GUM-ray! |
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robert jadah
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: Re: National Feel? |
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| ConnieTerwilliger wrote: | | The feel for the spot should be national. |
Then so should the pay, no? |
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TheVoiceOfBob
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: |
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I tried to go for a "national feel". I got slapped several times and my wife was very angry with me.
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jrodriguez315
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