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Jul 25, 2007, 10:37 AM
 
OK, who really thinks these things work? Silhouetted dancing cowboys and aliens, people caught dancing on video, what the hell do these things have to do with getting a mortgage? If you're gonna drop 6 figures on a house, do you do research or find the first viral ad you can find?
     
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Jul 25, 2007, 10:40 AM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
OK, who really thinks these things work? Silhouetted dancing cowboys and aliens, people caught dancing on video, what the hell do these things have to do with getting a mortgage? If you're gonna drop 6 figures on a house, do you do research or find the first viral ad you can find?
They're designed for easily amused idiots looking for a house.

I remember a real creepy one - a superfat chick dancing with a skinny guy... it was like a car accident, you couldn't help but look.
     
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Jul 25, 2007, 10:43 AM
 
I think I remember that one. I agree.
     
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Jul 25, 2007, 11:19 AM
 
I like the dancing alien.

Well, not really. WTF does an alien have to do with my mortgage?

Wait! There's one in a bikini now!
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Jul 25, 2007, 11:42 AM
 
When I see ads like that, it makes me wonder who has sh|t for brains; the person designing the ad or the person that would click on it.
     
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Jul 25, 2007, 11:49 AM
 
If they didn't work, we wouldn't see them. That's the real scary thing.

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Jul 25, 2007, 11:54 AM
 
I actually like the ones of the girls dancing at work, who then turn around and look shocked to find someone filming them.

That's not to say I would ever be stupid enough to take out a 30 year mortgage from some company that used that as advertising. But I'll still look at it.

     
   
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