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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Oct 23, 2013 18:24:11 GMT -5
Plenty of multi-million corporations do in show shilling. I grew up in the 80's where 85% of cartoons was just one big commercials. When Disney bought ABC, they made every sitcom do a show set in Disney World. Plus WWE is selling cheap and tacky merchandise so it balances itself out. Yeah but there's a difference between maintaining a bit of subtleness (if only a little bit) and markting things in less direct ways than outright saying "BUY OUR STUFF" I don't mind the announcers playing with the dolls and toys and mentioning the games and stuff, but when someones on screen outright trying to sell you stuff directly it's a bit much But If Johnny Ace would have come and picked up the skateboard I would have forgiven them But they still do WWEshop commercials regardless, the only difference is that they're using one of their wrestlers to do the shilling instead of the promo guy.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 23, 2013 21:41:32 GMT -5
I liked it. it was the right kind of random.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Oct 23, 2013 21:55:41 GMT -5
Very tacky. At a company the size of TNA with the old Don West stuff they used to do it's fair enough, gotta do what you gotta do to get cashflow and all that. But at a publicly traded multimillion dollar company like WWE it just comes across as cheap and tacky. It's a work, Jimmy.
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Post by evilhomer on Oct 23, 2013 23:01:22 GMT -5
Plenty of multi-million corporations do in show shilling. I grew up in the 80's where 85% of cartoons was just one big commercials. When Disney bought ABC, they made every sitcom do a show set in Disney World. Plus WWE is selling cheap and tacky merchandise so it balances itself out. Yeah but there's a difference between maintaining a bit of subtleness (if only a little bit) and markting things in less direct ways than outright saying "BUY OUR STUFF" I don't mind the announcers playing with the dolls and toys and mentioning the games and stuff, but when someones on screen outright trying to sell you stuff directly it's a bit much But If Johnny Ace would have come and picked up the skateboard I would have forgiven them I'm on the other side of the fence here, I can't stand when the announcers or backstage segments pull this crap. I feel it's just insulting my intelligence trying to play it off that these guys are just randomly making use of that particular thing (and hey, guess what? you can buy this crap too). At least with the Truth segment, it was clear what they were doing, and it was an attempt at entertainment. Personally I found it mildly amusing.
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BigBadZ
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Post by BigBadZ on Oct 23, 2013 23:09:58 GMT -5
I thought it was funny how R-Truth told us to log on and use the 20% off discount to make him the number 1 salesman and then the next day have a 40% off code.
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TCM
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Post by TCM on Oct 23, 2013 23:55:54 GMT -5
This was hilarious just like DX shilling their stuff was (especially the holidays skits). The anti-authority rebel group shilling merchandise. That seems more blasphemous than Truth.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 24, 2013 3:09:47 GMT -5
My favourite part was seeing the 20% offer, and seeing the reaction of one of my Twitter buddies immediately after - she had spent $300 less than 48 hours earlier.
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Oct 24, 2013 7:36:39 GMT -5
I thought it was great. It should be a weekly thing. More entertaining then R-Truth's entire face run lately.
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Post by HBL on Oct 24, 2013 11:13:50 GMT -5
I fully expected him to trash that stuff like the last time and turn heel but,eh.
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Post by sunnytaker on Oct 24, 2013 12:46:06 GMT -5
still not as good as the DX Elimination chamber one.
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