irony in Office Max commerical

[Marlene]

I saw a commerical for Office Max. in it, a fanchise hair salon opens across the street from another shop. the signs at the franchise advertise $6 hair cuts. the owner of the other shop goes to office max for a banner (how ironic) that says "we fix $6 hair cuts". then you see the $6 hair cuts place with signs for rent and out of business. the guy goes to Office Max for a banner doing the very thing that is being done to him by not going to a sign shop. nice ad...not

 

[weaselboogie]

"we fix your 'we-fix-$6-haircut' banners?"

 

[Marlene]

"we fix your 'we-fix-$6-haircut' banners?"

so true. the banner looked like it was made by a person in a red vest

 

[thewood]

I just had this conversation with a co-worker yesterday. Office Max will save small, local businesses money to help in the battle against big chains by being a big chain that encourages you to use them instead of small, local businesses.

 

[GP]

I just had this conversation with a co-worker yesterday. Office Max will save small, local businesses money to help in the battle against big chains by being a big chain that encourages you to use them instead of small, local businesses.

Couldn't agree more...sad but true.

 

[wes70]

Maybe someone should set up a print shop next to office max, staples, kinkos, etc. and advertise "we fix your cheap banners and signs".

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

All fine and dandy ... but people will always buy cheap 1st.. just to get by or to see if it will work good

Which one reason I specialize in doing window splash .. to cover my low cost advertising
since perment advertising takes years to replace I maybe dealing with customer several times a year

 

[Fred Weiss]

We were in a center anchored by an Office Depot for seven years. Even though they are headquartered locally, they send all the way to California for magnetic signs, banners etc. The service was so bad (3 weeks for a pair of mags) that they would regularly send their customers to us instead of taking their orders.

I do agree though that the ad in question is a classic example of convoluted logic.

 

[Replicator]

The commercial was disturbing and yet brilliant and yet shameful and yet funny all at the same time.

They're not competition . . . So I care not, but did get a good laugh out of watching it !