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By: Jeremy Lim

Jeremy Lim — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:31:13 +0000

Very clever, but pretty cruel I think. Kudos on the creativity, but … really, when you just lost thousands of dollars (or more), this is kind of smug, don’t you think?

By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:57:47 +0000

Cleaner gene pool. Good.

By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:56:35 +0000

Follow them, cretin.

By: Saline Away

Saline Away — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:32:16 +0000

The entire economy and probably society is going to hell in a hand basket faster than you can say “sure, I’ll pay it back.”

We may as well laugh about it, because the alternative will only keep the tissue companies in business.

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By: Adam Hevenor

Adam Hevenor — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:05:20 +0000

Not Funny. My girlfriend works at a hospital and they ave been seeing a lot of retirement aged people overdosing the last few days. This down turn is the worst of our generation, and suicide is a real by product of it. Some things should not be joked about, and this is one of them.

By: coca-collateral

coca-collateral — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:43:45 +0000

If you are searching for the Google stock price, where these ads are targetted (amongst others), chances are you are better off than most. So yes, funny.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:38:20 +0000

haha so funny. no one in their right mind should jump out the window over this mess. money is just money but you can’t put a price on humor. lol

By: jumpbaldwinjump

jumpbaldwinjump — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:25:33 +0000

Brilliant advertising. If you make the situation too serious you will make the leap.

By: James

James — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:19:29 +0000

Your alias made me burst out laughing in the middle of work.

By: AdvertiseSpace

AdvertiseSpace — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:35:42 +0000

Brilliant marketing…

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:24 +0000

I agree with Marah.

By: John Congdon

John Congdon — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:46:15 +0000

Woot Ads: Funny or Offensive?…

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By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:12:16 +0000

I don’t believe the story that “I have lost everything on google or yahoo or whatever stock” who is that stupid to mortgage the house or put his last money on stock, you should not put in the stock market more then you can afford to lose, if you do otherwise then you deserve your fait if you can’t learn from the past crashes, stupids …

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:03:32 +0000

Woot.com has been targeting users searching for Google Stock info for quite some time now… this is by no means their first Adwords campaign for the Goog or “google stock” keywords. Heck, less than two months ago they had ads that were a little more positive (back when the stock was doing just a wee bit better):
———–
Filthy Rich? We’ll help
Throw away your newfound cash
at Woot. You’re Welcome
woot.com
————

More on their old SEM campaigns, their very strange relationship with Google and woot.com’s entire current keyword/ad-copy campaign (with screenshots) here:

http://www.bren...-sly-marketing/

BTW, they’re not the only ones going after users looking at fallen stock prices… you’d be very surprised to see who their competition is..
-brent

By: lazysupper

lazysupper — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:05:49 +0000

Well, at least they didn’t say:

“Before you blow the heads off your wife, mother-in-law and 3 sons give them a chance to get a great deal on helmets at Woot!“

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:45:25 +0000

Uhm, how is this wrong exactly? The people who got themselves into bad mortgages or bought overpriced Google or Apple stocks only have themselves to blame.

By: carlos

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By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:26:40 +0000

Are The New Woot Ads Funny Or Just Offensive?…

The advertisement on Google, which pops up on a search for Goog (Googles Nasdaq symbol): Before you jump out of that window, why not spend your last remaining dollars at Woot? An alternative version: Losing your House? Without that mortgage to pay, now…

By: insic

insic — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:04:51 +0000

its funny indeed.

By: trendsuggest

trendsuggest — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:33:28 +0000

The screenshot shows personalized search results. Doesnt matter in this case, but the proper way to document a serp is to disable personalized results.

By: Marah Marie

Marah Marie — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:09 +0000

Not funny or offensive. Just plain dumb. Who would want to spend whatever few dollars they have left before they kill themselves? You people are waaaaay too unquestioning and accepting. If I wrote copy this completely dumb on my blog would you read it? And share it and repost it and blather on about it like it was the best thing since Wonder Bread? Jesus Christ.