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Old 14-05-2016, 21:19
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I don't know what they're advertising, but there's one where a rousing chant of "GO WEST" is heard, interspersed by individuals singing crap lines purposely terribly. It really jars. Whatever they're selling, they can stick it.

And now Clearscore. Can you guess what the main complaint is going to be? Yep, she speaks to her boyfriend in such a nasty, dismissive tone whilst at the same time using his head as a footrest, quite aggressively too at one point. Then the talking dog.
Is it any worse than the tortoise ones?

"Clearscore.com"
"Clearscore?"
"Yeah, Clearscore.com" (and it cuts off before he adds "Are you f**king deaf?")
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Old 14-05-2016, 23:39
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I really can't stand that new L'Oreal advert with Karlie Kloss (all I know about her is she is another friend of Taylor Swift) and that bloody annoying "tap tap" sound being repeated. It's the annoying way in which she says it and how she does it about five times in the ad.
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Old 14-05-2016, 23:53
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I cant stand the adverts for equity release. They are all clearly actors and I think its tasteless to encourage people to give over their homes in exchange for cash. Its not all that it seems.
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Old 15-05-2016, 12:23
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The new one with John Cleese recreating THAT Fawlty Towers scene, hitting his car with the tree branch.
Oh how hilarious. I think my sides have split.

It's that bad, I just saw it seconds ago and I can't remember what the product is !
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Old 15-05-2016, 12:52
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Anything for free credit reports (for life? just how bad does your maths have to be to need that from now until you die?). Are these offered out of the goodness of their hearts or are they actually credit comparison sites? Are these really 'completely free' or are you having to pay them in kind with your personal/financial information rather than money? If it's not a comparison site and they don't process your data and/or sell it, what's the business plan? They aren't charities - a quick look shows one as being a card/loan comparison thing but the other seems to be trying to suggest pure altruism as its goal which always makes me a bit suspicious.
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Old 15-05-2016, 13:50
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Anything for free credit reports (for life? just how bad does your maths have to be to need that from now until you die?). Are these offered out of the goodness of their hearts or are they actually credit comparison sites? Are these really 'completely free' or are you having to pay them in kind with your personal/financial information rather than money? If it's not a comparison site and they don't process your data and/or sell it, what's the business plan? They aren't charities - a quick look shows one as being a card/loan comparison thing but the other seems to be trying to suggest pure altruism as its goal which always makes me a bit suspicious.
When I had to do my credit score with Experian, for a remortgage, it was free for 30 days, but after that it charges you, so you make sure you cancel it before that (unlike all those berks who don't realise they have to CANCEL their Amazon Prime free trial so they don't get charged).

While the ones advertised on TV say free, that's presumably for a basic report, but it'll cost for more expensive ones. Even when I phoned to cancel Experian (since you can't cancel online), they kept trying to sell me a lower-priced plan than the default £15/monthly one. I can't imagine anyone needs that figure so regularly that you'd need to pay for it.
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Old 15-05-2016, 14:27
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... While the ones advertised on TV say free, that's presumably for a basic report, but it'll cost for more expensive ones.
I checked, and these are 'for life' though I dare say that might be at the expense of someone persistently trying to sell you the posh version.

I can't imagine anyone needs that figure so regularly that you'd need to pay for it.
This is the bit that I really don't understand - I get that there will be some way of funding all the sort-of-free stuff but not the regularity - if you need on that often I think you probably don't have the money to waste on it and you probably already have a clear assessment of your creditworthiness immediately available now that you have your '35th refusal' certificate from Wonga framed and on the wall.
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Old 15-05-2016, 16:06
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The new moneysupermarket ad makes imagine a child watching and asking
"Mummy, why are those two funny men fighting?"
"They're very silly and don't take any notice of them".

Good advice for all of us, I think.
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Old 15-05-2016, 17:49
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Anything for free credit reports (for life? just how bad does your maths have to be to need that from now until you die?). Are these offered out of the goodness of their hearts or are they actually credit comparison sites? Are these really 'completely free' or are you having to pay them in kind with your personal/financial information rather than money? If it's not a comparison site and they don't process your data and/or sell it, what's the business plan? They aren't charities - a quick look shows one as being a card/loan comparison thing but the other seems to be trying to suggest pure altruism as its goal which always makes me a bit suspicious.
I used to have terrible credit rating, I had never taken out a loan or credit, my first house was bought with a private loan, so not even a mortgage to show, this meant that the credit companies had nothing on which to base their judgement and gave me a "Bad" rating, apparently had I forever been taking out loans, even if I had defaulted on a few, I would have had a better rating, at least that is what a friend in the credit business told me
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Old 15-05-2016, 18:32
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... apparently had I forever been taking out loans, even if I had defaulted on a few, I would have had a better rating, at least that is what a friend in the credit business told me
Your friend isn't pulling your leg - or at least that doesn't disagree with my understanding of how it works, and is one of the reasons I got a credit card after paying off the mortgage - alongside better protection than with a debit card and a stack of extras they were desperate for me to have for sort-of-free-ish.

As for the two blokes doing the dance-off, that actually makes a kind of sense...
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Old 15-05-2016, 19:58
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I used to have terrible credit rating, I had never taken out a loan or credit, my first house was bought with a private loan, so not even a mortgage to show, this meant that the credit companies had nothing on which to base their judgement and gave me a "Bad" rating, apparently had I forever been taking out loans, even if I had defaulted on a few, I would have had a better rating, at least that is what a friend in the credit business told me
Absolutely true. I have previously worked for one of the UK's biggest mortgage providers and later on for a Wealth bank and we would be more inclinded to issue a loan (or give the loan/mortgage at a better rate or lower deposit percentage) to someone with a slightly below average credit rating but has a proven credit history, than issue to someone with little to no credit history.

The reason for this is because we can make a educated guess (computer algorithms) with regards to repayments for someone who has a fuller credit history (including things like the occasional missed payment, so long as it was paid swiftly after the due date) than someone without a credit history.

Personally I tell people to get a credit card and once or twice a year only make the minimum payment (even if you can afford to pay off the bill for the month) or get a small personal loan and keep up repayment. Both of these will help build up a credit history that financial organisation can use to judge the likelyhood of late-payment or default, which is our biggest fear and why those with no credit history get less than generous deals as we have no proof of credit worthiness.
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Old 16-05-2016, 08:20
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Why the **** is that stupid w****r from the go compare ads back?

Didnt the makers realise everyone hates him , hence why they did the ads of people trying to kill him then they did some tour where he has another job. But no why have him sing again?
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Old 16-05-2016, 08:26
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Why the **** is that stupid w****r from the go compare ads back?

Didnt the makers realise everyone hates him , hence why they did the ads of people trying to kill him then they did some tour where he has another job. But no why have him sing again?
bring back the woman with the RPG
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Old 16-05-2016, 08:30
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When I had to do my credit score with Experian, for a remortgage, it was free for 30 days, but after that it charges you, so you make sure you cancel it before that (unlike all those berks who don't realise they have to CANCEL their Amazon Prime free trial so they don't get charged).

While the ones advertised on TV say free, that's presumably for a basic report, but it'll cost for more expensive ones. Even when I phoned to cancel Experian (since you can't cancel online), they kept trying to sell me a lower-priced plan than the default £15/monthly one. I can't imagine anyone needs that figure so regularly that you'd need to pay for it.
Why should anyone have to pay to see information about themselves anyway the information should be free.
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Old 16-05-2016, 10:17
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Another one of those weird and disturbing superimposed-gob adverts, this time it's a woman at a board meeting advertising a chocolate bar. The honeycomb one for Fridays apparently so we have a few more days of this before the 'today' version gets played non-stop and beats us mercilessly into the ground. Seriously considering the advice of an old favourite, "why don't you..."

Why the **** is that stupid w****r from the go compare ads back?
TBH I'm less offended by the singing than I am by the voice of that cabbie not least because it's so forced.
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Old 16-05-2016, 13:53
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“At Amigo loans, you don’t need a credit score!”

Yeah, I’m thinking this is the kind of shit that causes problems.
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Old 16-05-2016, 13:57
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“At Amigo loans, you don’t need a credit score!”

Yeah, I’m thinking this is the kind of shit that causes problems.
no, no problem, provided that you have some mug, oop friend who will pay if you can't
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Old 16-05-2016, 14:29
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New GoCompare advert.

"Oh fantastic" "Yah" being the only words used by the couple and a cockney horse. It really is getting stupid. They need to kill off Gio Compario, failing that, lets hope the berk who plays him can't ever find any more work as a result.
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Old 16-05-2016, 14:47
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Not sure if it counts as a "worst" ad but who was the genius who had the idea of using lemons to sell Fiat 500 cars? And who at Fiat signed off for these ads? Have they never heard of the word "lemon" being used to describe a badly made constantly breaking down vehicle before?
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Old 16-05-2016, 14:51
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Another one of those weird and disturbing superimposed-gob adverts, this time it's a woman at a board meeting advertising a chocolate bar. The honeycomb one for Fridays apparently so we have a few more days of this before the 'today' version gets played non-stop and beats us mercilessly into the ground. Seriously considering the advice of an old favourite, "why don't you..."


TBH I'm less offended by the singing than I am by the voice of that cabbie not least because it's so forced.

The chocolate bar one is like a bad dream - I turn over when it comes on it really annoys me.
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Old 16-05-2016, 15:20
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no, no problem, provided that you have some mug, oop friend who will pay if you can't
Yeah, that too. I've seen that program "Can't pay, we'll take it away" before where some relative has had a visit from the bailiffs! They're always really shocked and confused by it too like "My daughter wouldn't do this!", yeah right. Makes me wonder how many people just naively sign this sort of thing off for a friend or relative and end up getting stung.
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Old 16-05-2016, 17:31
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The GoDaddy advert with the girl who repeatedly mis-pronounces "Domain" as "DOH-main".
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Old 16-05-2016, 22:15
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The dreadful Crunchie ad with the very badly done fake mouth (fad of the month it seems), and the even more dreadful Cadbury's 'Leicester' ad. Cheap crap for the brain-dead.
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Old 16-05-2016, 22:52
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Those stupid RTE ads for the TV show "Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge" with their
sub-"Mad Men" graphics.

And O'Connor sounds so arrogant you suspect he screams
his own name during intimate moments.
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Old 17-05-2016, 00:21
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The dreadful Crunchie ad with the very badly done fake mouth (fad of the month it seems), and the even more dreadful Cadbury's 'Leicester' ad. Cheap crap for the brain-dead.
I just Youtubed the Crunchie ad - terrible Apparently the wrapper is a "new design", looks like the old ones to me
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