I’m watching NFL football last Sunday. Still 2 days away from Halloween, mind you. I’m only half paying attention when the commercial break happens.
A commercial from Garmin, a company that makes GPS navigational tools, came on. Now this, as I said, was October 30th. This was the first Christmas commercial of the year. I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit. Now, it would be one thing if it was just a Christmas visual… that is bad enough… but this freakin’ commercial took it to the next level.
THEY HAD CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYING
Not only that, but they did one of the most annoying things in modern advertising, they re-wrote the lyrics to a known song to sell their crap. When you are watching football in October, before Halloween even happens, and you hear ‘Carol of the Bells’ with lyrics about navigation, it is very jarring. I’m lucky I didn’t have anything handy to throw at the television, because I most certainly would have. I just sat there dumbfounded. And angry.
I can tell you this… from this point on, I FLAT OUT REFUSE TO PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY EVER. Not that I was in the market for a GPS unit, but goddammit, if I ever am, you can bet I will NOT buy anything from them. As a consumer, that is the only weapon I have. And if you piss me off, you had better believe you will not get me back.
Garmin, I hope you burn in hell. There, I said it. And if any of you out there are fed up by companies doing the same thing, boycott their products. It’s the only way they’ll learn.