“So, I work at the Spokane CompUSA, and every Saturday night, we print out all the new advertisement tags to put up on products that are going to be on sale for the next week and put them out,” GFLPraxis writes in MacRumors forums.
“The tags come from the corporate computers, we don’t make them ourselves. They’re SUPPOSED to match what is in the advertised papers,” GFLPraxis writes.
“This last Saturday, one really funny Zune advertisement printed out. It didn’t match the advertisement, so our manager laughed took it down and put it in his office (showed it to our Apple rep the next day, he almost fell over laughing),” GFLPraxis writes.
GFLPraxis writes, “He let me take the tag and copy it. I took the copy home and scanned it.”
Full article with large image here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Pascal” and “Hagar57” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: The CompUSA tag advertised the Microsoft Zune by offering a “FREE $15 iTunes Gift Card instantly with purchase.” Not enough incentive. Short of offering a free iPod with every Zune purchase, we doubt that any freebie retailers could offer would help move the brown turds.
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Buy Zune. Get free iTunes card. Exchange Zune for iPod. Unvconventional, but it would work!
Too damn funny. I can’t wait to show this to my boss later. heh heh
All 3 Zunes sold in the past 2 months were returned immediately.
The social is out there somewhere.
MW: alone
It’s all going embarrasingly wrong for Microsoft at the moment.
If a dork is a waiter who spills soup in a guy’s lap and a geek is the guy he spills it on, then what is Microsoft?
I mourn the loss of so many innocent chairs.
This must be a hoax. I cannot believe that anyone with common sense could actually approve this ad. This level of incompetence would be cause for immediate dismissal, right?
Buy a Zune and get an “rebate” on the future Phune, or the Phune Home Edition, or Phune Premium Home Edition, Phune Pro Edition, Phune Premium Pro Edition, or the Super Phune Extra Functional Premium Pro Edition that can actually make calls.
“If a dork is a waiter who spills soup in a guy’s lap and a geek is the guy he spills it on, then what is Microsoft?”
That’s easy. MS is painful blisters from being burned.
Less is More: That sounds tempting but do any of those come with Spam ?
That should be sent to Jay Leno. He often has those funny ad bits.
@Dirty Pierre le Punk
…easy.
Microsoft is the lawyer retained by the geek to sue te dork.
“FREE $15 iTunes Gift Card instantly with purchase.”
Shows how much they value Apple products…they give them away.
@ maczealot
Nope that is standard operating procedure at CompUSA. The dolts in Dallas are some of the laziest pieces wasted flesh on the planet. I have seen entire runs of shelf talkers be completely wrong. And no one catches it until the customer points it out and gets something for free.
To: maczealot
Actually, when you think of it from the perspective of behemoth corporate management it makes perfect sense…
Setting: CompUSA executive meeting room
Exec #1: “We’re taking a bath on these Zunes! We’ve gotta figure out a way to move these turds. We’ve canceled any future orders, but we’re stuck with the ones we’ve got…”
Exec #2: “Maybe if we offered them an incentive of some kind…”
Exec #1: “Something related to their purchase to get the MP3 player customer interested…”
Exec #1: “Hey, my kid uses iTunes Music store! I actually have an allowance set up for him to buy so many songs on a weekly basis! Why don’t we give them a iTunes gift card… Those are relatively cheap, and we know they sell by themselves!”
Exec #2: “Great idea! I’ll get down to advertising right away!”
I wonder if anyone actually fell for it.
Where or where is ZOON WANG?
I know, getting musing at the iTunes Store!
ROFLMAO!
What surprises me most is that they are even advertising the Zune.
Original post has been taken down, but here is a Flickr photo someone took at a CompUSA who didn’t catch it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/broo2/382189327/
I hear ExLax moves brown turds along just fine…or a high-fiber diet.
MW: Next – “The next iPod killer to fail – the Zune”