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A real nonsensical headline about a product in today’s Fry’s Electronics newspaper ad
A real nonsensical headline about a product in today’s Fry’s Electronics newspaper ad
Jay Owen
on 30 Apr 10Don’t think I could have summed it up better myself. Wow. Who writes this stuff?
David Andersen
on 30 Apr 10What are you talking about?! It’s got AMD-V!
Jamie
on 30 Apr 10AMD-V not to be confused with AM-VD.
David Andersen
on 30 Apr 10Shoot Jamie, any rube knows the difference!
Corey
on 30 Apr 10This shit is awful. When are companies going to learn?
Nick
on 30 Apr 10Looks like someone copy and pasted a word cloud.
Needs more capslock.
Michael S
on 30 Apr 10It’s the feel-good platform solution of the year.
Jay Owen
on 30 Apr 10Nick, good call, definitely needs MORE CAPS LOCK!!! And some !!!!!!!
EH
on 30 Apr 10Fry’s has no business using words in the first place.
Ape-Inago
on 01 May 10Blueprint your system?
what does that even mean?
nutheory
on 01 May 10@Ape…. how do you get stuck on the “blueprint” part of it.
lee
on 01 May 10Not very sticky. Very sensationalized. That text is garbage.
But I can see I’ll need to update my quad core…
Wayne
on 01 May 10I remember ‘blueprinting’ – did that to my Firebird in the late 1960’s … really paid off!
Matthew Moore
on 02 May 10You’re right, from our perspective, and in this context, this is utter crap. But, having been a longtime Fry’s customer and former PC builder, I remember their ads packing a lot of useful info into a super small space with dozens of competing ads in their circular.
Of course the whole second half of that ad is nonsensical garbage, but I doubt they’d be writing it if it didn’t work. Fry’s DOES have a good deal of EXPERIENCE with weekly ads. ;)
Allen
on 03 May 10I haven’t seen anything that bad since I keyword stuffed my resume in college. It worked back then, I guess it still does.
Grover
on 03 May 10Okay, just to play devil’s advocate, instead of just “LOLZ!”, let’s do something constructive and rewrite it. You have one headline (since that’s the only part that people read) to convince the reader that this processor is a better value than the processor next to it on the page, which is something the 98% of your readers (even technically savvy ones) don’t really understand and might as well be labeled “Magic Go Thing.” Oh and don’t forget that you’ll just have to do it again next week. Go!
I’m not saying this is great copywriting, and it drives me nuts when everything on the page is “AN INCREDIBLE VALUE!” but I am saying this is harder than it looks.
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