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"To be fair, I think consumers are pretty well aware that this is a stunt." Does that really make it OK though? Do you feel OK giving your money to companies t
by bradleyland 15y ago
"To be fair, I think consumers are pretty well aware that this is a stunt."
Does that really make it OK though? Do you feel OK giving your money to companies that use "stunts", if you're aware of the stunt? I don't. I find it disingenuous. It feels like those door-to-door vacuum salesmen who dump crap on your carpet. Blech, no thank you!
Show me the product. Let me try it out. Trust me to recognize where you've done well. Feel free to point out areas where you think you've done well, but these "head to head" contests are just silly, and they can easily turn around and bite you, as we've seen here. Just skip it and let people make their own assessment.
- ajross 15y agoI guess. But in a world where you can't even watch a youtube video or read a web forum without getting hit by the same kind of nonsense product marketing, it seems like awfully mild sauce to be condemning Microsoft for pulling the same tricks. The marketing itself (but not the refusal to honor the prize) just doesn't tickle my outrage meter, sorry. The