Make It Stop!
October 14, 2006
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
Even as early as August I started to see a trickle in my mailbox. A trickle that served as a distant early warning of things to come. Yet I understood that with print catalogs that there’s a lot of lead time, and they’re fairly easy to ignore.
Today, however, we have a winner for the earliest jumping of the Christmas TV gun. Specifically, those knuckleheads at Expedia nearly made me go all Elvis on my TV just now. It’s too frakin’ early for “holiday” commercials and jingling bells.
What is it going to take to get a moratorium on Christmas commercials before Thanksgiving? Who do I have to beat to a bloody pulp to make the madness stop? (I’m looking at you, Expedia marketdroids).
Categories: What the heck?
Good luck Amigo. I mean, my hat’s off to you, but the rock you’re pushing uphill is Mt. Rushmore size. On the positive side, the packaging you mentioned in the last post is being obsoleted because of the very things you wrote about. Score one for common sense.
Yeah, I know nothing’s likely to come of it. Part of blogging is just being able to blow off steam. So instead of just yelling at the TV (and scaring the dog), I can share the pain with others on the Internet.
And there’s a small chance that marketers might read it eventually. They employ services to trawl blogs to keep up with opinion trends. Maybe one day they’ll get the message if enough of us are saying the same thing.