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- jhnewt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+76What would be funny is to dent someone's car, and then put one of these magnets over it.
"Ah! My car's dented! Oh. Its just a magnet. Ah! My car's dented!" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37If your car's paint job can't handle a ***** MAGNET, then you need to stop getting your car painted by Earl Scheib for $19.95
- ShBm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33FREE MAGNETS!
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32I wouldn't mind having a few of those dent magnets to cover up my car's rust stains.
- johnshooter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Photos: http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/Polomagneticcrash.jpg
- Iwantawii, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34This is when I put a sticker of a black eye on the person's face for touching my paint job.
- Gullop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29OR people could lighten up.
It was obviously a good campaign too because people are talking about it. - spyda45, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Now I can use this magnet to hide the REAL dents in my car!
- scrimaxinc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20except its a magnet (no damage).....and not bologna (damage)......
or am i missing something - Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They're speed holes. They make the car go faster.
- snakesonasam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12yeah i'd "hit that"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dang, I thought this article was going to be about some kind of automatic dent removal, using magnets built into the car. Who knows...
- daedalus1982, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@m1tch37
so i logged on to bash your comment
and then i "lol'd" because you already had - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Too bad fake bullet holes look Fake.
- brian1625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually the Polo reminds me of that clever Terrorist commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znoCcy7-M4M
Apparently marketing for tiny cars - like Ford's Evil-Ka marketing- has to be drastic? - defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I thought this was clever and inventive, and then I read the blog post and didn't know people could be so protective of their "paint job." It's not even the hard kind of magnets you see on refriderators but rather the flexy kind. This guy needs to lighten up a little.
- Universal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Put that and fake bullet holes on an unsuspecting person's car, and step back for a good laugh when they see it.
- Menoats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The blogger is too lame to enjoy creative advertising. If they put it on my car I would be like "damn I got a dent" then I would see the magnet and be happy and laugh at how they got me.
- zeero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5ive never understood people that get absolutely pissed when they see a flyer in their wipers...***** seriously. if you get so angry at a little thing, i wonder what happens when your kids spill some milk..
and this..really... as if your car doesent get scratched up from stones hitting it occasionally.. the people that would get mad at this are retards. i'd understand if you had a 50,000$+ car.. - Mearn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5hahah blocked
- thatkidandy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7same company that did ask's "The algorithm consistently finds Jesus"?
cause im not really understanding the logic behind either... - jon02129, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hahah banned
(please) - retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My fridge is shag..
- bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They hung horse theives once.
"Touch the ride and die." - AnotherBrian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is your car painted with cream cheese?
It's not going to damage the paint even if it's dirty, unless you rub it around instead of just peeling it off.
This is not to say I wouldn't be irritated by this. I don't want people/companies using my car for advertising space. - razortongue9000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2all that would do is make me want some of those magnets to put on peoples cars to scare the hell out of them... ::shrugs:: anyone else feel that way? hehe
- hannasdeli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, it is a very good campaign.
A totally different thing would be to see the actual implementation of the campaign. Why would they put the magnets on a BMW X3 as you can see in on picture of the brochure? I mean, it would be rather overoptimistic to believe that someone with BMW would even think of buying an "oh-soooo-for-factory-workers" VW polo just because a glorified magnet! - proghead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31 - scare the customer into thinking their car is dented
2 - have them realize its a magnet
3 - ???
4 - profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what about dented fridge magnets with vw logos, they would probably be able to give out tons! and they only need to come in white and stainless.
- jparkinson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Man some people need to lighten up, its a funny and creative ad campaign. That blogger is a ***** crybaby holy crap.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1At least they didn't decide to stick magnetic illuminated signs to peoples cars.
- gypsi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all you need now is a floppy disk under those magnets and the digg brain trust will shut down the intarweb
- Scyth3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1My car is composed of plastic literally. Good luck getting it to "adhere" to my car via magnet. (hooray dent free panels)
- ZachRetox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1buried for dissing VW.
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If you're gonna quote Homestar, make sure it's like 10 lines shorter next time to retain the hilarity. :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah, how does this appeal to VW's customer base: women and gay men?
- Shaman760, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You could get those sheets and cut them into smaller pieces and sell them on Ebay as "a piece of the world's stupidest marketing campaign". Something tells me one could make a few extra $$.
- egbert, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5If dirt gets trapped between the magnet and the car it can cause pretty back scratches in the clear-coat of a paint job. If they did this to my car I would have them redo my clear-coat.
- ChrisGranger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1People don't spend upwards of $30,000 on their cars to have VW turn them into advertising space. While perhaps clever on paper, this would annoy me quite a bit in the real world. The initial worry that my car was dented would -guarantee- that this campaign lost me as a potential VW customer.
- gypsi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0No, people spend $30, $40, $80, $100 and more for VW, Porsche, Hummer, Mercedes, etc. to turn themselves into advertising space. Grow up.
- daedalus1982, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1or just clean your car because if it had enough dirt on it to cause this kind of damage you wouldn't be able to see the magnet.
dangit most of you guys drive cars that if they got dented your only hope would be that it happen on the opposite side so your could at least drive a balanced ugly piece of crap. seriously how many of you would even notice? or bother checking on a semi- daily, weekly, ever basis?
some of you could probably walk outside and realize that oh dammit! you have one on your car right now! - jwigum, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2An interesting idea.
The only problem is that most magnetic signs like that will scratch car paint when applied and removed, even if the car is perfectly clean. - griz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Go ahead, just try and stick one of these to my Saturn.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1huh, I didn't know magnets still stuck to cars... Mine is almost 70% plastic/aluminum.
Only place a magnet will stick is the hood, roof, and chassis... - leftfield, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2bologna + clearcoat = polka dots
(ahh you edited :P) - motravo, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8self.getDictionary().get("lol").getPartsOfSpeech.add(PartOfSpeech.ADJECTIVE)
- cwilli14, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1Great comment, reminded me of this
STRONG BAD: Okay. Back to the 50 emails.
{He sits down. There's a piece of paper over the monitor with a Windows error window titled "This is real." It says "System report: Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined." Strong Bad reads the message}
STRONG BAD: {reading} Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined. Oh, that's good to hear. Let's just— Wait a minute! {he tears off the paper and sees the blue screen} Wha... Flagrant Error? What the... Where did all my emails go?
/homestar runner fan - superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4hilarity ensued...
- aidenuncle48, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1hahaha... seriously, is it even legal to do something like this? I mean, it's the equivalent of sticking a piece of bologne on a car as a prank (the results are not pretty).
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