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Feathercrown ,

Most of them

flamingo_pinyata ,

Cold calling. And other proactive forms of sales when they seek you out and actively keep trying to convince you that you need their product.

Bonus points if the sales person is unable to actually explain the product and keeps talking about “we don’t sell products we sell solutions”

Raffster ,

They can fuck off, all of them. Worthless pieces of degeneration. Zero sympathy from me.

ShimmeringKoi ,
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net avatar

All of them except one that I call the Bill Hicks Gambit

invertedspear ,

Stealing my time for nothing in return. Watching an ad to get content is a transaction. The door to door guy, or the guy who interrupts my shopping with “I’m not selling anything just asking you some questions” is annoying and I’m never going to use their product. The ones that persist after being told “not interested” can jump off a cliff.

Milk_Sheikh ,

I found a real easy approach to any undesired solicitation - zero contact, no reaction. Works on telemarketers, panhandlers, salespeople etc.

I have no shame about ghosting you publicly when the only thing you’re after is my money. If I’m in the home generator store, sure thing bro talk to me about my home power needs. If I’m walking out the supermarket and you slide around a booth to “help me keep my home safe during unrest” nah fam you can fuck yourself.

Cold open sales is parallel to pick-up “artists” imo. You want the transactional outcome for yourself, and my consent is the only thing you’re concerned about taking care of.

halykthered ,
@halykthered@lemmy.ml avatar

There’s a pest control salesman who goes door to door every year, who I can’t stand. Not only does he say outright incorrect things, but he can’t take no for an answer. Every polite refusal turns into, “You know what, we can knock 80 bucks off that right now” or “How about we just make the first month free.”

Next time he comes knocking, I’m going to be immediately upfront. I’m not interested in paying money to spray poison, that will end up in the canal and the river, to kill bugs that birds and frogs and bats could be eating.

HakFoo ,

Next one that comes to the door, I’m telling him he can have $20 if he humanely escorts the Latrodectus Hesperus living in our cupboard out. Let’s see if he has any tricks up his sleeve other than poison.

multifariace ,

Everything has deceptive language and other types of manipulation. I used to merchandise and learned a lot. Most ads make me angry because of this. Politics is similar but that just makes me sad.

Empathy ,

Anything that involves deception, which unfortunately seems to be most of marketing.

I don’t mind when people just try to get their product out there, just let it be known that it exists and does X thing differently or better. I hate when they mean to deceive. Something that is intended to deceive but isn’t technically a lie is not really better than a lie, to me.

PostProcess ,

Has to be rubbishing the competition. Even if I’ve solicited the engagement, if you have to pull yourself up by putting your competitors down then you’ll lose me. Tell me why you are good, not why they are bad.

Snapz ,

Yes.

Etterra ,

Yes.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Happy cake day!

TwoBeeSan ,

The job of sales is the overpromise and write checks that their ass won’t have to personally cash. Anything they say is to get you to sign on the line.

Fuck em all

bhamlin ,

Sending my work email a calendar invite as the first communication. Just because you want to sell it doesn’t mean I want to buy it. Or even hear about it. If a calendar event is the first thing you send me, I will be the avatar of snark. My calendar is busy enough without you inserting yourself into it without my consent.

bhamlin ,

Double snark if you get upset that I didn’t accept it and reach out to find out why.

ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net avatar

The only marketing I don’t hate is handwritten signs by the gate to a farm with addendums like “manur: $free$”

Kuori ,
@Kuori@hexbear.net avatar

all of them. bill hicks had the only correct take on people who work in marketing

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Asking me to give them profit so that they can donate is so obviously pretentious.

It’s a way for them to have their cake and eat it too.

They use the desire of people to buy something they want and think they did a good thing at the same time, while the business will just take that money to donate to a non-profit (helping their public image) while writing off a part of it on their tax records (helping their bottom line).

They’re not doing this from the bottom of their heart, it’s just a cost of doing business for gaining some PR karma.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

when movie trailers for bad movies either only show you the good reviews or stop showing up on TV once the movie is released.

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