Comments on: Best Gold-Selling Ad Ever

By: wowconomics

wowconomics — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:25:51 +0000

Wow, the gold sellers are really going off the deep end on their tells :-/. Lately though, the gold selling ads have been drowned out by the casino spam :-/

By: Tyberiuss

Tyberiuss — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:54:52 +0000

I agree about this being a translation issue. Funny story about a curling iron sold here in the USA. When translated on the box for sale in another country (can’t remember which), the product name came out saying to them “Manure Stick”. It didn’t sell well, but people got a laugh.

By: Bluetiger

Bluetiger — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:14:34 +0000

Somehow when they make a joke about it, it’s not so bad. Even though this is a bad joke,but still. I got a whisper last night from a gold seller (usually I Report & IGnore without missing a beat (or a Slam in this case, I hate being melee, but that’s another story)) saying “I know you probably don’t want buy gold, but if you do, give me a shout” I just answered “no thanks, but plus points for the humour” – and got a “gl & hf” in return, so there really are a human behind the gold seller *woot*!!

By: Syrana

Syrana — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:26:49 +0000

Mithrilina is right as to what they were trying to do – get around spam filters. However, this totally logical explanation of spam filters left out the fun of figuring out the grapes and the chicken.

By: Deathrender

Deathrender — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:23:05 +0000

Hmm, must be a China thing that we American just don’t understand :p

By: kyrilean

kyrilean — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:55:30 +0000

Mithrilina is probably right, but I like Klinderas’ explanation better.

By: Victor Stillwater

Victor Stillwater — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:49:04 +0000

Hmm… Sir Gevlon has a point there. Forget what I said about the butt thing.

By: Gevlon

Gevlon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:18:14 +0000

The sense in the ad that it makes you think and blog about it, memorizing and maybe even spreading the goldseller site’s address (you blurred it out but others would may not bother)

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By: Mithrilina

Mithrilina — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:11:08 +0000

It’s designed to throw off any spam filters, assuming that some of them read only the first few words of messages they scan.

Spammers often employ this tactic for emails, where spam filters often read only the first few lines of a message looking for matches to predefined spam patterns – quoting half a page from a book or publication often throws them off.