I can't believe anyone watches ads these days? If commercial TV has something you want to watch, record it and skip the ads.
If nobody watched them and/or if they didn't work then companies wouldn't have them. Advertising is a vast industry whether it's on TV, Paper Publications, Internet, Hoardings whatever. Male pride may not like this, but there's a saying that nobody ever just bought anything, it was always sold to them somehow.
True, but we on OOF are too smart to fall for them, aren't we.
Thus my "male pride" comment
We all make buying decisions about all sorts of things. And all sorts of things influence those buying decisions, even minutely. Far too complex to explain in a line or two. But there's always a reason you choose to buy one thing instead of another. The macho male will say "it's because I know what I'm doing", yes of course
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