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Originally Posted by ltd
My sister is an editor of a rather large company that houses 6 womens magazines and I can assure you, manufacturers pay big dollars for favourable reviews. It is part and parcel of marketing. The crap article in question is one big advertisement for Holden and it is less subtle than most in the sense that it tries to rubbish the opposition. In any business large or small, rubbishing the opposition is a sign of desperation, and customers seldomly respond favourably to it - customers that are not dumb enough to fall for it that is (now's a good time for a shout out to vecommo on LS1 who likes to quote people from ford forums).
I know it might seem hard to believe, but how many other products have you read about being the best thing ever, only to have said company go bust six months down the track. I recall reading an article in a lifestyle magazine proclaiming Chris marshall to be a wonderful, ethical businessman. Two months later he had creditors and angry customers chasing him for money.
But I digress, as Holden buy advertising space in newspapers and magazines you can be assured that Holden have paid for this article amongst many others in the drive "VE scratch and sniff sealed section" of the drive website, and as such I will endeavour to get some industry estimates of what they did pay.
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LTD, why don't you just give up while you're behind? I think most mature and level headed people here are in stitches of laughter at your ridiculous suggestions. The Ford Aus executives are probably even laughing at you.
You are now stooping down to using totally irrelevant references to back up your flawed argument, such as "my sister is this and she said that", or "I read an article about this businessman".
If manufacturers pay for favourable reviews, then how would you explain all the glowing reviews of the Falcon during the BA era, or does it conveniently not apply in this case? Why are all the drive.com.au webpages plastered with Ford advertisements?
You say that "rubbishing the opposition is a sign of desperation", well what have you done in 90% of your posts here but rubbish the opposition? Seeing the lengths you have gone to trying to prove your ridiculous argument here is a prime example of your desperation.
As SSBUB said earlier, you have got a huge chip on your shoulder which you really need to get over.
I doubt that you even owned this so called Caprice you keep talking about, for all we know it could be a fabricated story in order to seek attention. I mean, why would a one-eyed brand bigot like you even walk into the opposition's dealership?
And you will "endeavour to get some industry estimate of what they did pay". How sad is that, you probably have no life so you need to do something stupid and senseless like this to fill in the time.
You have been proven wrong on a number of occasions in various threads which just goes to show that your comments are misinformed and hold no credibility.
You are doing your fellow Ford fans no favours by posting the crap that you are, in fact you are making them look like idiots.
Enough said, I rest my case.