Has an advertisement ever influenced you to buy something?

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#1 RACiEP
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There are some exciting games out there that catch your eye from an ad, but other than games, I really can't think of anything I'd want to buy from an ad. Let's say I see an ad for Comcast, AT&T, Angel Soft toilet paper, or juicer infomercial. Do these ads make me want to buy these products? No. If I want to get cable/satellite, phone service, or something else, I don't buy it based on the ads. I turn to the internet and browse for what I would like and customer reviews of different companies and things. Advertisements really don't seem to be anything but a sort of amusement when the Super Bowl comes around.

So do ads really help sell anything? I really don't see the point in most of them, yet we are surrounded by them everywhere.

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#2 argetlam00
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I bet an advertisement has always influenced your decisions wether you want to admit it or not.

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#3 JigglyWiggly_
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On tv a bit yeah, on the internet... no not really.
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#4 Immortalsaiyan
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Well, I never knew of Scott Pilgrim until I saw the movie advertised. What I saw caught my interest, and as a result I bought all the comic books.Other then that one specfic case, no.

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#5 LightR
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Other than video games (trailers and previews, etc.) not much other advertisement has convinced me to buy a product.
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#6 Mercury_May2112
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Ohhhhh yeah.

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#7 waffle57
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#8 RACiEP
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Hahaha. Okay, I have to admit I love that commercial... but I've only seen it on YouTube.

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Not consciously, no.
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#10 Baconbits2004
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Hmm,I don't watch TV anymore, so lately the only ads I have seen are internet based. And I can honestly say that they haven't. :P unles... by ad, you are referring ot a list of things on sale that week, then they always do. :D