   Advertising
  I don''t know about any of you guys but I like quality advertising. I like seeing cool stuff made to make you want. There are tones of ways to do it and it can induce any type of emotion. I would like to actual make ads at some point. The only thing is at the same time there is nothing I hate more than advertising. If I''ve just confused you hold on and I will get to the point. One one hand you walk into a store and see this and that on the walls. Little price signs on the racks of goodies and just maybe a giant entertainment center display of some sort. Its all fine and dandy. Then while browsing CD cover art(its advertising too) someone walks up to asking you if you would like this great thing. Next thing you know you have lost a few minutes of you life and gained a wonderful stack of flyers about stuff you care absolutly nothing about. At this point we cross the line from passive advertising to agressive advertising. Passive stuff is fine. It lets you know whats going on and gives need information to the consumer. The agressive stuff just sucks. Its advertising grouped with sales. It often involves the manulipuation of the consumer to try and get them to do something very spacific right then and there. The second someone takes even a second to hand me a flier or stop me to talk they start the timer. The your waisting X amount of my time timer. It makes me more than angery to be pitched anything in any way for any reason. 99% of the time it is done for things that have specail benifits for the seller or just cant sell without help.My least favorite is the various insurance plans sold on electronic equipment. I''ve had the displeasure to have to sell these things. I know exactly what they are and who they benifit. Its not the consumer let me tell you. Its to jack your cash. I quit becaue I belived it was moraly wrong to sell them. Every major store does it now. I cant show my distaste for it because there is no place that does not sell them. My only power is to be rude. The rampant use of deceit in advertising is another thing that pisses me off. Off the top of my head the new Came Cube add for Soul Calibur 2. The talk about Link being in the game and then its Soul Calibur 2 "Only for Nintendo GameCube". The version with Link is but Soul Cal 2 is for all 3 systems. Its the effects of lying without actaualy lying. I feel that consumers are too often just viewed as little walking money bags that must be creativly pick clean. Consumer rights in general are kinda on the thin side.I guess the point of this is just to find out what people find acceptable in advertising. How much to you hate getting you email   SPAMed to death? Does advertising have to be the way it often is? At what point does someone cross the line? I think this week it was when I was pitch a 10$ warranty on a 10$ keyboard. Quite agressivly I might add. 