Taking lack of imagination to a newer level (RANT!)

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how many more years will we have to endure these stupid and ridiculous ads? i can't stand them anymore! After all these years, you'd think they'd change their concept of these folks wearing their overpriced clothes on a white background, while singing and dancing to some cheesy song... but no, every damn holiday season they come back for more! The networks must show them every chance they get (meaning at every commercial breaks, and sometimes twice during the same break) it just gets me freaking mad!

phew, feel better already... :p sorry for wasting bandwidth, and most importantly your time, but i was just wondering if i was the only one fed up with these...
 
Did you just watch Survivor Thailand and CSI? I did, and yes, I have seen that commercial more than enough... :grumpy:
 
didn't watch, but my girlfriend did. and of course, sound travels from one place to another, so i had to endure...
 
Yeah, I know what you mean. But hey, those ads get your attention, don't they? And...look...now you're talking about the company with others... Advertising is a very interesting thing!
 
Originally posted by PunkRock
3 letters: GAP

how many more years will we have to endure these stupid and ridiculous ads? i can't stand them anymore! After all these years, you'd think they'd change their concept of these folks wearing their overpriced clothes on a white background, while singing and dancing to some cheesy song... but no, every damn holiday season they come back for more! The networks must show them every chance they get (meaning at every commercial breaks, and sometimes twice during the same break) it just gets me freaking mad!

phew, feel better already... :p sorry for wasting bandwidth, and most importantly your time, but i was just wondering if i was the only one fed up with these...
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Amen dude!!
 
No, I understand your rant. Frankly, I don't see the point of Gap, when you can get Old Navy stuff cheaper, and the clothes look less trendy. Admittedly, their discount racks can't be beat! Last year's shirts for $5-10, for example; cold-weather clothing (which doesn't sell all that well in S. FL is also super-cheap), etc.

What bothers me is that there's a Gap at the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. There's a Gap at Church Street Station in Orlando. What's next, a Gap at Joshua Tree Nat'l Park?
 
The GAP is a sad case. It actually started in the Haight back in the sixties and was essentially a head shop that happened to sell Levis. Anyone remember when the GAP sold Levis? Anyway, everybody knows what they are now.

PunkRock, you sound like me complaining to my wife. The commericals are very irritating, indeed.

A little off topic...
The Victoria's Secret commercials? You'd think they'd be a big turn on but they offend me, too. All those skeletons in underwear prancing around to some Whitesnake-esque "music" making women feel like they have to starve themselves, making men feel like they'll all get to sleep with a super model someday.

Although I've been told I make to much of a big deal about things :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by pupik
No, I understand your rant. Frankly, I don't see the point of Gap, when you can get Old Navy stuff cheaper, and the clothes look less trendy. Admittedly, their discount racks can't be beat! Last year's shirts for $5-10, for example; cold-weather clothing (which doesn't sell all that well in S. FL is also super-cheap), etc.
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I don't see the point of Old Navy when you can, like me, wait until the last minute to buy all clothes, and when purchase can finally be held off no longer, go to the community college a few blocks away and stock up on all sorts of clothes with their logo on it.

What's next, a Gap at Joshua Tree Nat'l Park?
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Not unless the government profits from it, those national park sissies.
 
GAP is a clothing store that puts thier name on $5 shirts and crap and sells them for $20...same with Ambercrombie. OldNavy has some good stuff, but the others are just expensive clothes that are "trendy" because of the name on them.

It's sad. The ads are horrid(Old Gravy ads are too though) and redundant, but that's kinda the point.
 
Wrong medication?

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Originally posted by PunkRock
folks wearing their overpriced clothes on a white background, while singing and dancing to some cheesy song...
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Because everytime you see an ad, with a whiteback round, and lots of beautiful people [well, the one's over here are full of beautiful people. Can't speak for the US!] singing a season related [possibly cheesey song] a little noise in the back of your head says "GAP Advert." Thus, their job is done.

Come on though dude, they aren't that bad. There are certainly more irritating adverts than the GAP ones. Sort of liked the Jive one they did a while ago.
 
yes, but Matt, every one of them is similar! the first ones weren't half bad, but isn't it time to try something new?
 
It is true, PR, that they aren't exactly breaking the mould of modern day advertising, by any stretch of the imagination. However, they've found a format which everyone recognises now. Even if you were to see a brief clip of one of their adverts, you'd know it was theirs. They've created this "brand" of advert, which people easily recognise, and despite them being mundane now, they'd be a bit silly to change their style of advertising now, especially leading up to Christmas.

Oh, and p.s. I don't own anything GAP ;)
 
Oh ok, thanks for explaining it Maz.
 
I have to speak out here. I like their ads. When there are so many objectionable ads out there, like the continual patronising ones about germs everywhere, or air fresheners (almost all of which smell worse than the smells they are supposed to be 'freshening'), a happy advert with some people singing and dancing is OK. I don't want to be told about some latest innovation in air freshening, especially when it's some new 'easy to use' thing that you attach to the wall and press 'to release a burst of freshness'. It has be shouting **** off at the TV. And feminine hygiene ads! Grr! There's one at the moment, where the point is that the product is so small that you can mistake it for something else, like a biscuit or a sachet of sugar! COME ON!!!! How stupid do you think we are?

There were a couple of great ads for a s*** car, the Fiat Punto. One was a 'male' script, where it made fun of all the female stereotypes, and one was a 'female' script, which made fun of all the male stereotypes. The male one got banned for being sexist!! HELLO???

But back to The GAP. I like their clothes too. I don't know about their pricing policy in other markets, but in the UK, they're not too unreasonable, but their clothes are high quality, and last a long time. I spent £25 on a GAP shirt, and it's lasted 2 years. I spent £25 on a Ben Sherman shirt, and it lasted a month. I don't mind paying for quality clothing, and that's what I get from The GAP.
 
Yes I hate the GAP(gay and proud) ads to but there is one ad ever worce and that those dam old navy ones I'm sorry to all the old navy fans out there but I will never by there clothes just cause of the annoying azz commercials :mad:
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
I don't mind paying for quality clothing, and that's what I get from The GAP.
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Not their blue jeans, though. 6 months, tops. Then they fall apart, ready for you to buy the next pair. Shirts are another matter.

Happy ads, yes. Annoying, though.

I like the "Family Feud" Old Navy ad (ah, the memories of post-dinner TV); even though I'm not crazy about the shirt peddled in the commercial.
 
Only when I need food, money, and a place to sleep. Oh, and cheap liquor, um...I mean, a job.
 

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