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No Touch Hand Soap?
15 years ago
I just saw an ad for a 'no touch hand soap dispenser.' The selling point was to "never touch a germy soap pump again!"
WTF YOU'RE WASHING YOUR HANDS ANYWAY WHATS THE POINT WHYYYY? :|
I also like how it starts off as "fact: your soap pump handle can harbor a lot of bacteria." ...thanks for being 'you-cant-sue-us-now' vague enough there, Lysol. :|
It's probably selling really well too...
EDIT: Maybe it's beneficial if you have say, raw meat on your hands while cooking - but there's still alternatives like bar soap for that kind of stuff. The commercial never mentions it, just 'fragile' kids using the product who would just get their hands as dirty 5 minutes later - unless the over-protective moms have sanitized the house to just short of having the children in plastic bubbles.
I hate products who use the "YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T USE THIS" angle - because it works so well.
WTF YOU'RE WASHING YOUR HANDS ANYWAY WHATS THE POINT WHYYYY? :|
I also like how it starts off as "fact: your soap pump handle can harbor a lot of bacteria." ...thanks for being 'you-cant-sue-us-now' vague enough there, Lysol. :|
It's probably selling really well too...
EDIT: Maybe it's beneficial if you have say, raw meat on your hands while cooking - but there's still alternatives like bar soap for that kind of stuff. The commercial never mentions it, just 'fragile' kids using the product who would just get their hands as dirty 5 minutes later - unless the over-protective moms have sanitized the house to just short of having the children in plastic bubbles.
I hate products who use the "YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T USE THIS" angle - because it works so well.
Finally, somebody agrees with me.
Which is why I personally choose to focus on the function of a thing, rather than the flash.
Product now redundant. :D
I can't stand the current safety to the point of paranoia aspect of modern advertising. Sadly, human fear is easy to exploit.
Besides, didn't I talk to you about this already?
I think it was Toyota who first starting advertising the Corolla differently, and then others followed. The way it goes is that they were the first ones to advertise.. the car... not, y'know,' happy family driving around your car, guy getting a girl 'cause of the car, naw, THE CAR. So there's this bland guy driving around a well crafted visual environment full of effects, and wherever he goes people just turn their gaze to the car, and then you see details about it.
Now, pretty much everyone's doing that. In my opinion.. if you're selling a car.. showing the car.. MAKES SENSE. But GM (Chevrolet, over here), of course, is messing up as usual. Their new Vectra (which is the 5 years ago Vectra with a nudge here and there and costs 40 thousand more of course) is like.. really cute... father and son, son draws his father with his car, very touching, very 'aww' worthy.. and you see the car for like... 2 seconds. o.o
That really disappoints me. But then again, marketing usually targets dumb people (no joke, it really does that usually).
I'm sure they are selling well too. I refuse to buy one, however. I haven't been stricken with some disease from my soap dispensers yet and I'm going on 24, lol.