[SteveGerencser]

While advertising may not have convinced you to buy anything, which is doubtful that it hasn't has some influence, there are millions of people that are influenced by advertising. This is why it's done.

What is sad is that obvious marketing attempts work so well. One weird trick ads really do work. I was as surprised as anyone when we started running these for a client assuming that they would fail and we could stop. Sales nearly doubled for that ad group.

It's hard to blame the marketers for the dumbed down advertising when it works so well.