ATT Radio Ad

JML755 · Dec 8, 2011

I laugh every time I hear it:
ATT Cellular is running a radio ad on WWJ-AM in Detroit, powerful local news station. Probably get reception to some of the furthest suburbs and close-in rural areas. What catches my ear is the guy saying "now you can use your smart-phone GPS to keep track of where you planted your crops and use video-chat to ask your dad how to restart the baler". :lol:

First how many of you "real farmers" lose track of where you planted your crops? How did you do it before without GPS? :?

Secondly, If you're running the "baler" by yourself, chances are you know how to "start" it. And if you did call your dad, he'd probably say "stop, don't touch anything. If you're that dumb, wait for me to get home".

Third, I can't imagine that radio station would reach any area where there's a large audience that would even understand what the guy was talking about. Maybe reach a few guys in Michigan like hayray,Spook, RayP and a few other "farmers", but to justify an expensive radio ad?

anyway, heard it again today

Anonymous-0 · Dec 8, 2011

Might be part of why ATT is rated by consumers, as the worst cell phone carrier. Don't know, just sayin:^)

rrlund · Dec 8, 2011

Condescending idiots like that drive me nuts. Ray and I are in the Grand Rapids Michigan media market. The big news/talk station here is WOOD 1300 AM. They were running ads for some crop input for a while,I don't recall right now if it was Pioneer or DeKalb or what it was,but some city wack job called the local talk show one time asking them why they were running commercials like that? Said farmers weren't listening to a "big city" station like that. Said they (we) were all listening to country music.

oldtanker · Dec 8, 2011

About 10 years back a cell radio ad was run while we were having lots of problems with bad ice and dumb people who wouldn't stay off of it. The ad went on about how much safer you will be if you fall through the ice if you have thier cell phone with you. Last time I checked most cell phones don't work to good when wet.

Rick

Dale in IN · Dec 8, 2011

Running them through rhe washing machine dosent work either! BTDT.

mark us · Dec 8, 2011

They are the worst.I just paid to get out of my contract with them. The phone I bought in March when I took out the service never would work right but they would only replace it with the same phone, after several phones and rude people I quit. Funny thing is they wanted $300.00 for another phone but only $150.00 to opt out of their contract. Like I said they are the worst.

RayP(MI) · Dec 8, 2011

Well, I haven't lost any fields of crops, and If'n I had to call my UNCLE (he did all the baling,) as to how to "start" the baler - the're'd be a horrendous toll charge....Where he's at, I don't think he has phone service!

Depress the clutch, engage the PTO lever, slowly let up on the clutch... What's the big deal?
(Come to think of it, Uncle Milo's tractor had a separate clutch for the PTO).

Yeah, a lot of commercials with farming overtones just crack me up. Obviously these ad agency guys never had to clean their boots off after traversing the barnyard!

NCWayne · Dec 8, 2011

Used to be a Brake repair chain around here that advertised their "Friction reline" service. At the time dad and I were doing alot of brake and friction clutch relining for our customers cranes. Given the price of lining, rivets, and the time it took to do everything I threatened many times to give them a call and tell then I actually had some 'friction's for them to reline and could they do them for the stated low price... Yep, there are some really stupid and/or outright condecending adds out there made up by folks that simply don't have a clue..

TVB · Dec 9, 2011

Hollywood is as bad if not worse. You'd think if you had millions to spend you research the facts a little. My wife was watching a murder mystery show which had the bad guy farmer using a "bulldozer" (small tractor)to bury his victims. In and episode of "MONK" the bad guy "Farmer" set his pickup on blocks of salt and when the sprinkler came on they dissolved in seconds to inact his evil plan. In a tv show years ago the dad construction worker came home from work building houses every day still wearing his very new hard hat, stiff leather tool belt with shiny new hand tools in it. It be nice if the producers of this garbage would take some pride in their work, the shows are unrealistic enough.

Don-Wi · Dec 9, 2011

I remember a movie once (a chick flick BTW) Where the farmer's daughter brings her boyfriend home to Manitowoc, WI, for thanksgiving. The corn was still green, no snow in sight, heck it was T-shirt weather. And they had the County fair to boot.

Last I checked, the Manitowoc county fair is in the summer months, in November the corn ain't green and most is combined already, and there may or may not be 12" of snow on the ground. My wife (girlfriend at the time) didn't see why I was so irritated at first.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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