Tuesday 7 August 2007

Worst Adverts

Just a heads up for this excellent website http://tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/
Currently featuring 2 of the worst adverts on UK TV at the moment.
Both are from loan companies trying to get you to take out another expensive loan to cover all your debts that you couldn't afford to pay before, while not mentioning that you've now probably doubled your debt and all those bills like rent, mortgage, gas, electric, water, council tax, food etc will still need to be paid before you can pay for this, which is probably how you got into debt in the first place.

Anyway here's the Ocean finance one
http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA0349&advertiser=Ocean%20Finance

Picture loans - Dad's found your scooter one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY_mPrjHQyY

Lovely comment on the above website "Josh, how many more times? Dad’s taken your scoota and all your other toys down to Cash Converters to pay back the £45 grand we owe Picture.”

Well you have to laugh, I remember being desperate enough to apply for one of these loans but luckily for me I was blacklisted by several banks and other companies and even the loan company wouldn't touch me.
Lucky escape for me, I ended up selling my record collection and anything else not nailed down to pay the bills and eventually got out of debt without a 25 year loan hanging over me.

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