Sunday, November 14, 2004

Bell Canada is there anything you can't commercialize

Basically I thought Bell made this really nice commercial about Rememberance Day, except at the end they plaster this fucking lame logo on their message. So I went to their website and complained- this could've been a really nice gesture if it was left on its own, the commercial already incorporates the product, it didn't need to hit you over the head with with the hard sell.

---Original Message---From: ARMITAGE DAVID [mailto:armita1@msn.com] Sent: November 9, 2004 12:55 AMTo: Webhelp Sympatico.MSN.caSubject: News Question/Suggestion/Comment

DAVID, ARMITAGE

armita1@msn.com Message : Way to exploit Rememberance Day for all it is worth. Hopefully by slapping your logo on at the end of the commercials bringing public attention desperately needed for this day. Hopefully you sell 8 more cell phones as a result.

Of course here's the response I got a few days ago, predictable in its ability to explain the corporate structure to such concerns:

From :
Sent : November 12, 2004 11:41:35 AM
To :
armita1@msn.com
Subject : RE: News Question/Suggestion/Comment

Dear ,

We appreciate you taking the time to write to Sympatico.MSN.ca with your comments.

Thank you for the interest you have shown in Sympatico.MSN.ca.

Sincerely,

Kelly
for the Sympatico.MSN.ca team
http://sympatico.msn.ca/

Well thanks for that Kelly, I sure feel a lot better about that now. I can't wait til the Internet puts your company out of business for good.