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PaWolf
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Posted: 12 Mar 2010 at 3:06am |
One wouldn't think that 'times were THAT tough'.
Lower your dignity.
Grab a dollar.
Be a 'T.V. Sell-Out'!
Does it matter WHO?
"To Tell the Truth", hosted by Alex Trebek (of 'Jeopardy' fame).
Why not?
I'd readily tell him he should be ashamed he had 'lowered his standards' - He'd tell me to go screw myself - he got paid big bucks to show his face for 15 seconds while I was all busy being poor.
Has ANYONE else seen that silly P.O.S.?!!!
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Wow, if you thought it couldn't get any worse it does!
Alex Trebek hawking for DirecTV, wow that's low. this guy has fallen FAR. |
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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TWCFan
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The guy is just an infomercial magnet. He is famous for hosting Jeopardy! for 25 years. He's my favorite game show host, and I don't want him to sink very low.
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MrButler
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I hate how he f**king plugs his games for Game Lounge.
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Banderboy
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It wasn't that long ago he was pushing some fraudulent looking insurance company. |
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Every day my mind grows keener- my good arm stronger--- my silly enemies more futile---
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PaWolf
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How could I forget? You are right. Something like 'COLONial Penn'...he's been doing that one for years. Wonder how many have cleaned out on that one?
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Oh yeah the Colonial Penn ads I remember those!!!
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One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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bluenowait
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I think that was the insurance company that inspired Old Glory Insurance: |
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t(ò_ót) Double Deuce!
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timdubya
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He still does the Colonial Penn ads, I saw one this morning.
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MFfan310
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I sell both DIRECTV and DISH Network, along with Verizon FiOS, so I had to chime in on the subject.
Let me put it this way: DIRECTV's claim is true. Just like in the commercial, DISH's lowest end package, America's Top 120, doesn't include channels like AMC, Animal Planet, and FX. DISH Network's "why would you pay more for TV?" claims are also true, as they include a DVR in every package, something that DIRECTV charges extra for, and DISH Network packages cost slightly less than comparable DIRECTV packages as a result. But from my experience selling satellite dishes, most people don't go for the very basic package with the satellite companies. They go for the DISH America's Top 200/250, not the America's Top 120; and for DIRECTV, they go for the Choice Xtra and not the regular Choice package. I liked the commercial myself, but that's just because I sell satellite dishes. Anyway, here's the commercial in question. |
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Jimmy
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"Your mother's a whore!"...."What do you think of that, Trebek?!"
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One man gathers what another man spills
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Ian16545
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DirecTV would've done better to have Gordon Elliott instead of Alex, since he'd been with that run of "TTTT" the longest.
"Cheerio, America!" |
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One call... destroys 'em all!
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DirtyD79
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They really need to bring in Sean Connery and redo those SNL skits. I'd buy 10 of those dishes and eat off them everyday.
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Mind on My Money, Money on My Beer
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belc0011
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Ok, these commercials suck for more reasons than I can possibly list, but what pisses me off the most about these commercials is that they claim to have won customer satisfaction awards. If that's the case, I want to know who slept with whom to pull that off because I have never, NEVER hated a company as much as DirecTV.
We moved from AZ to CO - we had DirecTV in AZ (where we lived in a house), so we had a contract and had to continue with it in CO. We really couldn't afford it, so I was quite pleased when the technician came out and determined we couldn't get a signal (we're on the first floorof our apt and a large building was blocking our only clear view of whatever sky we needed to see). I asked what that meant since we had a contract, and he said he'll call them and tell them we have a line of sight issue and they'll suspend the contract. Ok great. So we go out and buy a DTV converter box and an antenna (since as I mentioned before we couldn't afford Cable/satellite service). A couple of days later my husband calls DirecTV to find out if we needed to mail the receiver boxes back, and they tell him they've changed their mind and they think they can find a signal, and they send out new technicians. These technicians show up, start drilling without my permission (thus breaking our apartment rules), run over my foot with the door, and leave without saying a word to me (while I sat in a bad neighborhood with the doors unlocked thinking the DirecTV guys were still outside working and would need to come back in). While all of this is happening, I'm on the phone with DirecTV telling them they better reimburse us for the DTV converter box and antenna we had purchased and opened (so we could not return them) which we no longer needed since we were being forced to keep our satellite service. They refused - I asked for a supervisor, they left me on hold forever only to have the supervisor also refuse. I kept asking them to explain why it wasn't their fault that their technician had told me we could not have satellite service, and now they were changing their story, and they couldn't. They just kept repeating "there's no way for us to reimburse you for something that wasn't charged to your account." Well then give me however many months free service that will add up to the amount I'm out, idiots! Once I realized that the guys had left, I called DirecTV back and they told me they'd have the technician call me.
The technician called and basically said "what do you want, we were done." I told them there were loose wires just laying on the floor in front of our fireplace, they had damaged the baseboard in the bedroom, they had put the satellite hanging over our balcony bolted in (which wasn't allowed) hanging directly in front of a stairway so people would have to duck to get up the stairs, etc. The guy hung up on me. Eventually after numerous angry calls to DirecTV, they sent a QA guy out who agreed they had done an abysmal job. He said he would send his lead technicians over to take care of it. The technicians came over and agreed that if they followed the rules of the apt complex, they would not be able to get a signal. They took everything down and sort of repaired the damage, and told us that we would be released from their contract. I questioned him saying "you're saying that just like the first technician said that, how do I know when I call they're not going to change their mind and try to send someone else out again?" He told me "I'm the manager and what I say goes, period." I got his name and personal phone number and assumed we were done with it, and for a month and a half we were. But guess what we got a month and a half later....a past due notice from DirecTV for service during the dates we had no longer had the satellite dish. We were furious and called and complained, and the initial contact told us there were no work orders in the system and there was nothing she could do - we would have to pay the bill. We demanded a supervisor and were put on hold for 20 minutes. Finally the girl came back on and said "ok, we're going to submit a waiver." Not good enough - I demanded to actually speak to the supervisor because I wanted his name and ID number since I could pretty much guarantee that two days later no one would have any knowledge of this conversation. She puts me on hold for another ten minutes before the supervisor came on.
To add insult to injury, I asked this gentleman what we should do with our receiver boxes, and he said since we had had our contract for over a year, we owned them and could do what we wanted with them - he was actually the second person to tell su this. We have very limited closet space (as in three closets in the entire apartment) and had abolutely nowhere to put them, and contemplated selling them or pitching them if they weren't worth anything since we had no space and were literally having to lay them on the floor, but knowing DirecTV we figured we'd better hang onto them just in case. Sure enough, guess what phone call I just got today...an automated message from DirecTV saying that they're mailing two boxes for us to mail the receivers back in, and if we don't mail them back they're going to charge us $470.
If you read all that, I'm impressed - but I really think people should know what kind of a company they are. They couldn't possibly care less about their customers, and as soon as we successfully canceled we had a rep calling offering us three free months if we keep them. Where was that offer previously when we were still customers and they had a chance to make their customer happy? Clearly that's not their priority.
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Bring me the head of a pig, and a goblet of something cool and refreshing
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Christine
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"Suck it, Trebek!"
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MrCleveland
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I even made-up a few "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches and "To Tell The Truth" sketches with Sean Connery and Alex Trebek.
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Thank God for kids who love Obscure Things.
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tvpirate05
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I hate these commercials...in true DirecTV form, they air incessantly and are inescapable. I think my bigger issue is that they went through the trouble of recreating the set from the show, but couldn't even make the commercial play like the actual show. The original show had celebrities quiz the three panelists (one of which was real).
They could've just as easily done a generic game show imitation, despite the "To Tell the Truth" angle. |
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msubulldog
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Alex sounds real uppity the way he says "Welcome back" at the start of these commercials.
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kicket
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I had Dish tv for 48hrs then dumped them
the cust. serv. was horrible the install was a mess the receivers kept switching channels by them selves. I have Cable now and not only is it cheaper but my Tivo does stuff that no sat company receiver can do so their clame is Bullsh*t.I am way happier with cable. |
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