[noslices1]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

some celebrity is telling you how great it is? In the past there was the picture of a famous athlete on the Wheaties box but the for last few years there seem to be celebrities in all sorts of commercials for all kinds of products or services.
Does this type of endorsement affect your decision to purchase it? I don't think I've ever bought anything because some celebrity told me to buy it. I imagine they pay these celebrities a significant fee for doing the commercial but I wonder if it really increases sales.

I actually STOPPED watching “Blue Bloods” on TV, because I think Tom Selleck is scamming seniors with his Reverse Mortgage ads. Hey Tom, it IS a way for the banks to take your house, cheap.

[noslices1]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

No, I wouldn’t. The only exception might be if the product was endorsed by the GOAT, Tom Brady. After all, I wrote him in when I voted for the President in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

Nice waste of your vote.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by noslices1

Nice waste of your vote.

Not when you vote in Massachusetts, the presidential choice is a predetermined slam dunk so my vote doesn’t matter. A snowball has a much better chance of surviving in hell than a republican has of getting a single electoral college vote in the commonwealth.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by noslices1

I actually STOPPED watching “Blue Bloods” on TV, because I think Tom Selleck is scamming seniors with his Reverse Mortgage ads. Hey Tom, it IS a way for the banks to take your house, cheap.

Yes. I don't understand why a well respected celebrity with a net worth of $45 million would degrade his reputation for a few extra dollars. Doesn't he care about his reputation?

Joe Namath, who has a net worth of $25 million, actually says on TV that he gets meals delivered to his house by Medicare. Really? There are other high net worth celebrities who claim to have "Car Shield" to pay for their vehicle repairs.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Yes. I don't understand why a well respected celebrity with a net worth of $45 million would degrade his reputation for a few extra dollars. Doesn't he care about his reputation?

That's how they made some of those millions...

In the past, most US celebrities would only do "foreign" commercials. Most often in Japan. We never saw them... But with this new fangled thing called "the innertubes", everything is local...

No/most the time it will make me stop buying a product.

[JoMar]

Then there was Joey Heatherton on the Perfect Sleeper mattress

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Then there was Joey Heatherton on the Perfect Sleeper mattress

Yeah, I bought 5 of those, but I don't know why.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Yes. With back surgery needed, I saw Mike Alstott on a commercial about Bio-Spine Institute. I then researched them to the nth degree, got an appointment with a surgeon there and am having surgery there on 11/2.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Then there was Joey Heatherton on the Perfect Sleeper mattress

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan

Yes. With back surgery needed, I saw Mike Alstott on a commercial about Bio-Spine Institute. I then researched them to the nth degree, got an appointment with a surgeon there and am having surgery there on 11/2.

Wishing you good luck and a speedy recovery

[Stu from NYC]

A celebrity endorsement means nothing.

Remember the pervert who was the pitchman for Subway until recently.

I refuse to buy anything associated with Nike after they hired Kaepernick.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Wishing you good luck and a speedy recovery

Thank you very much! 👍