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Do you think you react to advertising differently than most people? Do ads make the product in question less appealing to you?

Apparantly, advertising does affect a lot of people in the intended way, but it seems to have a different effect on me. I find 99% of ads to be unpleasant. When I see the product, that awful feeling sort of returns. A lot of the stuff I buy isn't advertised, at least in places where I would see the ad.

I'm sensitive to the increase in volume in tv ads. And the annoying voices. I have to mute them or else I start to feel aggravated.

I wonder if all or part of this has something to do with ASD.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the subject?

Advertising doesn't affect me at all.

Tim

Commercials suck. They're all so annoying, and they follow the same trends.

I pretty much agree with you. I often feel insulted by ADs, because they try to manipulate me into buying their product. I usually think to myself "how stupid do they think I am!"
I basically hate money, business, capitalism, etc., anyway. We are all slaves to money, and that bothers me!

I have something like a phobia about money. It doesn't literally give me panic attacks, but I do all I can to avoid dealing with it. I don't like shopping, even online. Displays of wealth make me uncomfortable too. I have an irrational fear that a malicious wealthy person is going to harm me and then hire a fancy lawyer so they can get away with it. I have nothing against people who happen to be wealthy, but money and power are scary.

I find it sad that advertising works on anyone, to be honest. Only things that might work for me would be advertisements for a good movie or documentary, but products as in store products?? No way, I tend to stick to own brand anyway.

I just want to make enough money to get the things I want (plasma TV, Apple PowerMac--or MacPro, whatever they're calling it, and a 2008 Buick Enclave).

Tim

As for people who make certain amounts of money, I am indifferent toward them.

Tim

I agree.

I get to a point with some commercials, when they go into painfully frequent repetition, that I vow NOT to have anything to do with the product. As someone else mentioned, I also find the volume quite disturbing. Worst are the radio ads where they yell. I bought satellite radio.

On the one hand, yes - advertising is annoying, and I sometimes consiously avoid a product that has annoyed me with ads that are insufficiently amuseing and or overly repetitive. On the other hand - if you tend to stick to your own brand, how did which brand that is get established? 'cause I'm pretty sure that's the point of most advertising, to catch the few who aren't already attached to a paticular brand yet.

The other thing is, (remembering that 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot,) I remember hearing that a largish percentage of the population is convinced that ads don't affect them, but that they clearly do because an effective ad campaign can happen.

Me too. I mean, I don't care how much money people make, on an individual basis. But the power that can come with money is scary, when someone chooses to abuse it.

Advertising doesn't affect me

Advertising doesn't work on me unless I am already specifically seeking a product.

I do find artistic ads interesting e.g. the Guiness ads, but it doesn't make me buy the product.

I find many commercials funny as meant. Like beer. But I often wondered if this actually made people want to buy their product more. I assume it does or else they wouldn't pay huge sums of money doing it.

I always wondered about car commercials. Do they really expect me to run out and buy their car because they have a sale and I must get it. I assume they are going after the .0001% of people actually looking for a car at that time.

Anyhow most of them I just find annoying. That's the time to get up and get a snack.

If I'm actually paying attention, and they are trying to sell something I'm interested in buying at that exact moment, and it's good quality, and they are offering a sale to get me to their location, and I feel like it, and it's convenient, the ad might have a chance of working on me.

There was an episode of This American Life (public radio show) that had stories a few years back that remind me of this dynamic, here's 'short version':
Guy who uses Mitchum deodorant sees new campaign for Mitchum that makes him feel ridiculous using it, as if clerks will think he's just seen that ad & been taken in by it-no way to signal that one's been using product since before silly/embarrassing new ads all over the place. Then he's stuck not wanting to be someone who uses that brand-but he doesn't want to be person who refuses to use that product for such a trivial reason, also.
Another story had a guy who carried a backpack & was resistant to using wheeled luggage. He didn't want to be 'that guy', as he saw it (those around him who did use wheeled luggage that he scoffed at, while still insisting on using his backpack which was becoming increasingly uncomfortable)-yet he didn't want to be someone refusing to use wheels, as if he were somehow 'above' such a simple efficient technology.
Hope my point gets across-I totally could understand not wanting to do as others do, yet not wanting to resist solely for sake of being different (one's still being manipulated, just in opposite direction), if others have a solution that would work well for me.

The things I use are not things I ever see mentioned by marketers anyway-plus, then they'd be too expensive (if money were spent flogging these wares instead of just making the darn item).
Pepsodent toothpaste, for instance-I like it because it's the only kind that's not too strongly minty for me to tolerate. Ways that products get changed ("improved", according to somebody other than me) tends to repel rather than attract me, too.

I mute ads or switch channel, hate how they're always so much louder than the program I'm trying to watch/hear. Ads also tend to make me dislike the product being advertised, to think less of the company promoting whatever. I resent the intrusions & attempts to manipulate me-actually get very annoyed & angry at ads. I rip them out of magazines, too (when there's no article on back of page), before reading remainder of the publication.

I loathe advertising and commercials soooooo much. Nothing can make me want to NOT buy a product more than a stupid commercial.